環境問題が私たちの学生評議会活動の中心だった。

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English Translation

The environment was the focus of student council activities.

Furigana

環境(かんきょう)問題(もんだい)が私(わたし)たちの学生(がくせい)評議会(ひょうぎかい)活動(かつどう)の中心(ちゅうしん)だった。

Romanji

Kankyō mondai ga watashitachi no gakusei hyōgikai katsudō no chūshin datta.

Words

環境 (かんきょう)

environment; circumstance

問題 (もんだい)

question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion; controversy; trouble; problem; inconvenience; difficulty

が (が)

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

私たち (わたしたち、わたくしたち)

we; us

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

学生 (がくせい)

student (esp. a university student)

評議会 (ひょうぎかい)

council; board of trustees

活動 (かつどう)

action; activity; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)

中心 (ちゅうしん)

center; centre; middle; heart; core; focus; pivot; emphasis; balance; -centered; -centred; -focussed; -oriented; centered on; focussed on

だ (だ)

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