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Sample Sentence About Commerce and Travel

This sentence is thought-provoking (although the more I think about it, the less logical it seems!).

物資は、遥かに人間以上に、地球の表面を移動し続けている偉大な旅行者なのだ。
Busshi wa, harukani ningen ijō ni, chikyū no hyōmen o idōshitsuzukete iru idaina ryokōsha nano da.
Goods are the great travelers over the Earth’s surface, far more than humans.

物資 (busshi: goods)     thing + materials
遥かに (harukani: far)
人間 (ningen: human)     person + between
以上 (ijō: more than)     toward + higher
地球 (chikyū: Earth)     Earth + globe
(hyōmen: surface)     surface + surface
移動 (idō: migration, movement)     to shift + to move
し続 (shitsuzu(keru): to continue doing)
偉大 (idai: great)     great + big
旅行者 (ryokōsha: traveler)
     to travel + to go + person

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