我々は流感の広がる速度を鈍らすことができるだろうか。

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English Translation

Can we check the rapid spread of the 'flu?

Furigana

我々(われわれ)は流感(りゅうかん)の広(ひろ)がる速度(そくど)を鈍(にぶ)らすことができるだろうか。

Romanji

Wareware wa ryūkan no hirogaru sokudo o niburasu koto ga dekiru darou ka.

Words

我々 (われわれ)

は (は)

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

流感 (りゅうかん)

influenza; flu; cold

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

広がる (ひろがる)

to spread (out); to extend; to stretch; to reach to; to get around; to fill (e.g. a space)

速度 (そくど)

speed; velocity; rate

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.

鈍る (にぶる、なまる)

to become blunt; to grow dull; to become less capable; to weaken; to falter

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

が (が)

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

出来る (できる)

to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at; to be permitted (to do); to become intimate; to take up (with somebody); to grow; to be raised; to become pregnant

だ (だ)

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

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way