事の意外な成り行きに目を白黒させた。

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事の意外な成り行きに目を白黒させた。

English Translation

I blinked in amazement at the unexpected development.

Furigana

事(こと)の意外(いがい)な成(な)り行(ゆ)きに目(め)を白黒(しろくろ)させた。

Romanji

Koto no igaina nariyuki ni me o shirokurosaseta.

Words

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

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

意外 (いがい)

unexpected; surprising

成り行き (なりゆき)

outcome; development; course of events; progress; result; market order; order without limit

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

目 (め)

eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; vision; look; stare; glance; an experience; viewpoint; stitch; texture; weave; ordinal number suffix; somewhat; -ish

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

白黒 (しろくろ)

black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence