あの会社はみんなお偉いさんの肩書きばかりで、船頭多くて船進まずだ。

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English Translation

Everybody in that company is either a vice-president or a senior vice-president; they're all chiefs and no Indians.

Furigana

あの会社(かいしゃ)はみんなお偉(えら)いさんの肩書(かたが)きばかりで、船頭(せんどう)多(おお)くて船(ふね)進(すす)まずだ。

Romanji

Ano kaisha wa minna o erai san no katagaki bakari de, sendō ōkute fune susumazu da.

Words

彼の (あの、かの)

that (someone or something distant from both speaker and listener, or situation unfamiliar to both speaker and listener)

会社 (かいしゃ)

company; corporation; workplace

は (は)

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

皆 (みな、みんな)

all; everyone; everybody; everything

御 (お、おん)

honorific/polite/humble prefix

偉い (えらい)

great; excellent; admirable; remarkable; distinguished; important; celebrated; famous; eminent; awful; terrible

さん (さん)

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san; makes words more polite (usu. in fixed expressions)

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

肩書 (かたがき)

title; degree; address (on letter); criminal record

許り (ばかり、ばっかり、ばっか)

only; merely; nothing but; no more than; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to; indicates emphasis; always; constantly

だ (だ)

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

船頭 (せんどう)

boatman; ferryman

多い (おおい)

many; numerous

船 (ふね)

ship; boat; watercraft; vessel; steamship; tank; tub; vat; trough; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)

荒む (すさむ)

to grow wild; to run to waste