美智子はまるで自分自身が北極へ行って来たかのような口ぶりだ。

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English Translation

Michiko talks as if she had been to the Arctic herself.

Furigana

美智子(みちこ)はまるで自分(じぶん)自身(じしん)が北極(ほっきょく)へ行(い)って来(き)たかのような口(くち)ぶりだ。

Romanji

Michiko wa marude jibun jishin ga Hokkyoku e ittekita ka no yōna kuchiburi da.

Words

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

丸で (まるで)

quite; entirely; completely; at all; as if; as though; just like

自分 (じぶん)

myself; yourself; oneself; himself; herself; I; me; you

自身 (じしん)

by oneself; personally

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

北極 (ほっきょく)

North Pole; the Arctic

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

行く (いく、ゆく)

to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to head (towards); to be transported (towards); to reach; to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk; to die; to pass away; to do (in a specific way); to stream; to flow; to continue; to have an orgasm; to come; to cum; to trip; to get high; to have a drug-induced hallucination

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

様だ (ようだ)

(usu. at sentence-end) seeming to be; appearing to be; like; similar to; in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; indicates hope, wish, request or mild command

口ぶり (くちぶり)

way of speaking; intimation

だ (だ)

be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative