毎年、２７００万エーカーの熱帯雨林が破壊されているのである。

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English Translation

Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.

Furigana

毎年(まいとし)、２７００万(まん)エーカーの熱帯(ねったい)雨林(うりん)が破壊(はかい)されているのである。

Romanji

Maitoshi, ni nana zero zero man e-ka- no nettai urin ga hakaisareteiru no de aru.

Words

毎年 (まいとし、まいねん)

every year; yearly; annually

二 (に、ふた、ふ、ふう)

two

七 (しち、なな、な)

seven; hepta-

○ (まる)

circle (sometimes used for zero); 'correct' (when marking); symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); period; full stop; maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound

万 (まん、よろず)

10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; various

エーカー (エーカー)

acre

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

熱帯 (ねったい)

tropics

雨林 (うりん)

rain forest

が (が)

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

破壊 (はかい)

destruction; disruption; (application) crash

だ (だ)

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

或 (ある)

a certain ...; some ...