私はやっとのことで沈んでいく船から脱出した。

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English Translation

I escaped from the sinking boat with difficulty.

Furigana

私(わたし)はやっとのことで沈(しず)んでいく船(ふね)から脱出(だっしゅつ)した。

Romanji

Watashi wa yatto no koto de shizundeiku fune kara dasshutsushita.

Words

私 (わたし、わたくし)

I; me; private affairs; personal matter; secrecy; selfishness

は (は)

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

やっと (やっと)

at last; at length; barely; narrowly; just; by the skin of one's teeth

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

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

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

沈む (しずむ)

to sink; to go under; to submerge; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to descend; to feel depressed

船 (ふね)

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

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

脱出 (だっしゅつ)

escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis