
[足利 The City of Ashikaga]
[無手勝流]
[英語☆クールな名言]
[英語☆クールな名言 プレミアム版]
[日本語☆クールな名言]
[前置詞を知る]
[ぷれっぷ・くいず]
Where have all the flowers gone?
―Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone?
―Long time ago.
Where have all the flowers gone?
―Girls picked them every one.
When will they ever learn?
―When will they ever learn?
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あたり一面花盛りだったね
―だいぶ前のことだね
あの花はすっかりどこに消えたのかなぁ?
―ずっと前のことだったね
あの花はどこにいったの?
―女の子たちが残らず摘み取った
いったいいつになったらわかるのかなぁ?
―いつになったらわかるんだろね?
Where have all the young girls gone?
―Long time passing.
Where have all the young girls gone?
―Long time ago.
Where have all the young girls gone?
―Taken husbands everyone.
When will they ever learn?
―When will they ever learn?
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このへんおなごがいっぱいいたね
―だいぶ前のことだね
あの若いおなごたちはどこに消えたのかな?
―ずっと前のことだったね
若い女の子たちはみんなどこへ?
―結婚して夫のもとに行った
いったいいつになったらわかるのかなぁ?
―いつになったらわかるんだろね?
Where have all the young men gone?
―Long time passing.
Where have all the young men gone?
―Long time ago.
Where have all the young men gone?
―Gone for soldiers everyone
When will they ever learn?
―When will they ever learn?
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このへん若い男子がいっぱいいたね
―だいぶ前のことだね
あの若い男の子はみんなどこに消えたの?
―ずっと前のことだったね
あの若い男たちはどこにいったの?
―みんな兵士になって戦争に行った
いったいいつになったらわかるのかなぁ?
―いつになったらわかるんだろね?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
―Long time passing.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
―Long time ago.
Where have all the soldiers gone?
―Gone to graveyards, everyone.
When will they ever learn?
―When will they ever learn?
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このへん兵隊がいっぱいいたね
―だいぶ前のことだね
あの兵隊たちはみなどこに消えたの?
―ずっと前のことだったね
あの兵士らはみんなどこにいったのかなぁ?
―みんな墓場に行ったんだ
いったいいつになったらわかるのかなぁ?
―いつになったらわかるんだろね?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
―Long time passing.
Where have all the graveyards gone?
―Long time ago.
Where have all the graveyards gone?
―Covered with flowers, every one.
When will they ever learn?
―When will they ever learn?
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このへんお墓がいっぱいあったね
―だいぶ前のことだね
あのお墓は全部どこに消えたのかな?
―ずっと前のことだったね
あのお墓はすっかりどこに?
―花になった、どれもこれも
いったいいつになったらわかるのかなぁ?
―いつになったらわかるんだろね?
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Pete Seeger (ピート・シーガー: 1919 - 2014)米国のフォーク歌手。
Joe Hickerson(ジョー・ヒッカースン: 1935-) アメリカのフォーク歌手、音楽学者。
♡2行ずつ問いと答えが連なる形式。また、「花→女子→男子→兵士→お墓→花...」という連環の形式になっている。
♡The format is a series of questions and answers, two lines each, and is also a chain of circling ring “flowers -> girls -> boys -> soldiers -> graveyards -> flowers...”.
☆all theのtheは特定のものを表す。特に身近なもので特定のもの。野の花ならあたり一面にある野の花のことを言う。?Where have all flowers gone?のようにtheを取って言うと、花というものすべてがなくなったことになる。意味的にはSFなどでありえるが、現実的にはそういう状況はまずない。だからいつもたいていtheをつけておくほうが無難。
☆all of the flowersはall the flowersに同じ。なおsomeの場合、*some the flowersはない。some of the flowersはある。*no the flowersはない。no flower(s)やnone of the flowersはある。both the boysはboth of the boys同様ある。*each the boy(s)はない。each of the boysはある。*each boysはない。each boyはある(英語の頭の「*」は文法的でないというしるし)。
☆Long time passing.=There has been a long time passing by.
Long time ago.=It happened a long time ago.
後者は現在完了形で訊かれたことについて、過去形で答えている。「どこにいっちゃったのか」→「(どこかにいったのは)ずっと前に(起きたことだった)」
☆When will they ever learn?と訊かれてWhen will they ever learn?と答える形式は「オウム返しの問い」、あるいは単に「問い返しの疑問文」(echo question)という。ここでは「まったくね」のように共感してオウム返しにしている。Where did you go yesterday?―Where did I go yesterday?(きのうおまえどこにいったんだ―ぼくがきのうどこにいったかだって?)のように場合によって一部単語が変わることもある。よく聞こえなかったときに聞き返したり、驚いたときに言ったりする。 Where did you go yesterday?―Where did I go yesterday? I was home all day yesterday, cleaning my room.
☆オリジナルはシーガーが一人で作詞作曲して3連だった。のちにジョー・ヒッカースンが2連追加して今の5連の形になった。米国のシンガーソングライター、Arlo Gathrie(アーロ・ガスリー: 1947-)が60年代にシーガーとともに歌っていたようだ。作詞作曲の経緯と歌の形式についてchatGPTに訊いた結果はこちらで。
☆The original song was written by Seeger and had three stanzas. Later, Joe Hickerson added two more stanzas, and the song took its current five-stanza form. Arlo Gathrie (1947-), an American singer-songwriter, sang the song with Seeger in the 1960s. Click here to see the results of an interview with chatGPT about the song's songwriting history and format.
♡YTの動画はカナダ・カルガリーのカンターレ少年合唱団によるレクイエム(鎮魂歌)風合唱。もともとのフォークソングとしては、アーロ・ガスリーのカントリー&ウェスタン風がいちばんよいかと思われた。サイドバーにも載せた(モバイルでは後ろの方)SoundCloudの勝手はわかりにくいが、終わったら右上の✘をクリックすると元に戻る。
♡YT video is a requiem-style chorus by the Cantare Boys Choir of Calgary, Canada. As for the original folk song, Arlo Guthrie's country and western style seemed to be the best. I put it in the sidebar (towards the bottom on mobile). It's hard to understand how SoundCloud works, but when you're done, click the ✘ in the upper right corner to get back to where you were.
♡「結婚して夫のもとに行った」は、反結婚みたいなメッセージではなく、結婚しても夫に先立たれる可能性があるよ、という警告と考えられる。また、「女の子たちが残らず摘み取った」は言うまでもなく、全部摘み取ったことへの咎め立てとかを言っているのではなく、実はそれはお墓の上に咲いたものなのだよ、という注意を予め促しているものと考えられる。
♡”Taken husbands everyone” is not considered to be an anti-marriage kind of message, but rather a warning that even if you get married, it is possible that your husband will precede you. Also, needless to say, “the girls picked them every one” is considered to be a warning in advance that it is actually a bloom on the graveyard, rather than a statement of blame for plucking all of them or something.
いつの日か私たちは必ず勝つ ―ピート・シーガー
We shall overcome,
We shall overcome,
We shall overcome, some day.
Oh, deep in my heart,
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day.
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私たちは勝つ
必ず勝つ
いつの日か私たちは勝つときまっている。
ああ、心の奥底に
確信がある。
いつの日か私たちは必ず勝つ。
We'll walk hand in hand,
We'll walk hand in hand,
We'll walk hand in hand, some day.
Oh, deep in my heart,
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day.
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私たちは手に手を取り合い歩き
私たちは手と手をつなぎ歩き
いつの日か私たちはたがいに手を組んで歩く。
ああ、心の奥底に
確信がある。
いつの日か私たちは必ず勝つ。
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Pete Seeger (ピート・シーガー: 1919 - 2014)米国のフォーク歌手。オリジナルの曲に手を加えた。
♡1963年にワシントンで行われた、キング牧師率いる公民権運動20万人大行進でも歌われたプロテスト・ソング。
♡This protest song was also sung at the 1963 Civil Rights March of 200,000 led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, D.C.
♡YTの動画は、2010年に開催された公民権運動以来の音楽の祭において、当時のオバマ大統領夫妻の目の前でジョーン・バエズが歌ったもの。大統領はジョーンの迫力に押されてたじたじになっている。
♡The YT video shows Joan Baez singing the song in front of then
President and Mrs. Obama at the 2010 festival of music since the Civil
Rights Movement. The President is flinched by Joan's power.
♡Martin Luther King Jr.(マーティン・ルーサー・キング・ジュニア: 1929-1968) I Have a Dreamの演説で有名。ケネディ大統領の暗殺事件が起きた1963年の5年後に暗殺された。
♡Joan Baez(ジョーン・バエズ: 1941- ) 米国のシンガーソングライター。メキシコ系米国人。
♡Barack Obama(バラック・オバマ: 1961- ) 米国第44代大統領。
☆このshallは契約書の翻訳をしたことがある人はよくご存知の、厳然たる必然や厳然たる義務や厳然たる定めなどを表すもの。「厳然たる」の背後には神の意思というものが感じられ、そのもとで必ずそうなったり、必ずそうしなければならなかったりすることを言う。shallの過去形はshouldで、これも義務を表すが、もともと仮定法だから柔らかさを含み、shallで表される義務よりだいぶ軽い。だから契約書などではshallばかり目立つ。shouldはまず出てこない。
☆This shall is familiar to those who have translated contracts. It expresses a strict necessity, a strict obligation, a strict destiny, etc. The past tense of shall is should, originally a subjunctive form, also expresses obligation, but because of the subjunctive mood, it contains softness and implies much lighter obligation than that expressed by shall. Therefore, in contracts, etc, should is rarely used, with only shall standing out.
☆We shall overcome.のshallには、断固たる確信や決意が含まれている。それを「必ず」という訳語で表した。
☆overcomeは他動詞は「に打ち勝つ、を克服する」という意味。あとに目的語の来ない自動詞は単に「勝つ」でいいだろう。
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go
and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again
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降りしきる雨音に耳を澄ますと
お前はばかだったねと言ってくる。
黙ってくれ、泣きわめかせてくれ、
もう一度一人にさせてくれ
The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know that
when she left that day
Along with her, she took my heart
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気にかかっていた子はほかになし、
なのにどこかに行っちまった
ぱりぱりやり直しを求めてね
こっちのことは眼中になし、
別れたあの日、
おれはハートも連れてかれた
Rain please tell me now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away
when she don't care
I can't love another
When my heart somewhere far away
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雨よ、お願いだから今言ってくれ
そんなのはフェアじゃないって
あいつはおれの真心を奪っちまって、
ほかの女は好きになれない
なんてことはおかまいなし
おれのハートはどこか遠くへ行っちまった
The only girl I care about has gone away
Looking for a brand new start
But little does she know that
when she left that day
Along with her, she took my heart
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気にかかっていた子はほかになし、
なのにどこかに行っちまった
ぱりぱりやり直しを求めてね
こっちのことは眼中になし、
別れたあの日、
おれはハートも連れてかれた
Rain won't you tell her that I love her so
Please ask the sun to set her heart a glow
Rain in her heart
and let the love we knew start to grow
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雨よ、お願いだからあいつに伝えてくれ、
お前のことが大大好きなんだぁ
太陽にも言ってくれ、
あいつのハートに火をつけてくれ
ハートに雨を降らせてくれ、
おれたちの愛を育んでくれ
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
Telling me just what a fool I've been
I wish that it would go
and let me cry in vain
And let me be alone again
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降りしきる雨音に耳を澄ますと
お前はばかだったねと言ってくる。
黙ってくれ、泣きわめかせてくれ、
もう一度一人にさせてくれ
Oh, Listen to the falling rain
Pitter patter, pitter patter
Oh, Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain
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ああ、降りしきる雨の音
ピッチピッチ、チャップチャップ
ああ、降りしきる雨の音
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Rain please tell me now does that seem fair
For her to steal my heart away when she don't care I can't love another
steal my heart away when she don't care I can't love another
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Aujourd'hui,
maman est morte.
Ou peut-être hier,
je ne sais pas.
Today,
Mom died.
Or perhaps yesterday,
I don't know.
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今日、
ママンが死んだ。
もしかしたら昨日かもしれない、
わからない。
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The opening section of the novel L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus. The protagonist, Meursault, is a French male office worker of unknown age living in Algiers. At the time, Algeria was a French colony. After his mother died in an asylum in the suburbs of Algiers, he went to a funeral there, and then visited with his girlfriend a beach villa owned by a friend, where he shot and killed an Algerian (an Arab) with a gun.
Today, Mom died.>
Or perhaps yesterday, I don't know.
After Kafka, France has produced a novel told by a man suffering from absurdity. The symbol of existential malice is not the transformation into an insect, but the heated rays of the sun. This sun was also hot at his mother's funeral.
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One morning,
as Gregor Samsa was waking up from
anxious dreams,
he discovered that in bed
he had been changed into
a monstrous verminous bug.
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ある朝、
グレゴール・ザムザが気がかりな夢から
目ざめたとき、
自分がベッドの上で
一匹の巨大な毒虫に
変ってしまっているのに気づいた。
He lay on his armour-hard back and
saw, as he lifted his head up a little,
his brown, arched abdomen
divided up into rigid bow-like sections.
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彼は甲殻のように固い背中を下にして
横たわり、頭を少し上げると、
何本もの弓形のすじにわかれて
こんもりと盛り上がっている
自分の茶色の腹が見えた。
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He lay on his armour-hard back>
his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections
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わらべはみたり 野なかのばら
清らに咲ける その色めでつ
飽かずながむ くれないにおう
野なかのばら
たおりてゆかん 野なかのばら
たおらばたおれ 思い出ぐさに
君を刺さん くれないにおう
野なかの薔薇
わらべは折りぬ 野なかのばら
折られてあわれ 清らのいろか
とわにあせぬ くれないにおう
野なかのばら
Sah ein Knab' ein Röslein stehn,
Röslein auf der Heiden,
War so jung und morgenschön,
Lief er schnell, es nah zu sehn,
Sah's mit vielen Freuden.
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少年はかわいらしいバラを見つけた、
ヒースに咲く小さなバラ、
とても幼く、朝を思わせる美しさだった、
少年は急いで駆け寄った、
見つめることは喜びだった。
Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,
Röslein auf der Heiden.
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かわいらしいバラ、小さなバラ、
幼い赤いバラ、
ヒースに咲くかわいいバラ。
Knabe sprach: ich breche dich,
Röslein auf der Heiden!
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少年は言った:今からきみを手折る!
ヒースに咲くかわいいバラよ!
Röslein sprach: ich steche dich,
Dass du ewig denkst an mich,
Und ich will's nicht leiden.
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小さなバラは言った
私はあなたを刺すわ!
あなたが私のことを永遠に思い続けるように、
そして、私が苦しむことがないように!
Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,
Röslein auf der Heiden.
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小さなバラ、小さなバラ、赤い小さなバラ、
ヒースに咲く小さなバラ。
Und der wilde Knabe brach
's Röslein auf der Heiden;
Röslein wehrte sich und stach,
Half ihm doch kein Weh und Ach,
Musst' es eben leiden.
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こうして野蛮な少年は
ヒースに咲く小さなバラを手折った、
小さなバラは抗い、棘で刺した、
しかし痛みや悲しみは
少年を助けることはなかった、
ただ苦しむしかなかったのだ。
Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,
Röslein auf der Heiden.
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小さなバラ、かわいらしいバラ、
幼い赤いバラ、
ヒースに咲いたかわいいバラ。
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☆ich breche dich[イヒ ブレッシェ ディヒ] 手折ります
比較しよう。 ich=I liebe=love dich=you
Sah ein Knab' ein Röslein stehn,
Röslein auf der Heiden,
War so jung und morgenschön,
Lief er schnell, es nah zu sehn,
Sah's mit vielen Freuden.
Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,
Röslein auf der Heiden.
Röslein auf der Heiden!
Röslein sprach: ich steche dich,
Dass du ewig denkst an mich,
Und ich will's nicht leiden.
Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,
Röslein auf der Heiden.
Und der wilde Knabe brach
's Röslein auf der Heiden;
Röslein wehrte sich und stach,
Half ihm doch kein Weh und Ach,
Musst' es eben leiden.
Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,
Röslein auf der Heiden.
童はみたり 野なかの薔薇
清らに咲ける その色愛でつ
飽かずながむ 紅におう
野なかの薔薇
手折りて往かん 野なかの薔薇
手折らば手折れ 思出ぐさに
君を刺さん 紅におう
野なかの薔薇
童は折りぬ 野なかの薔薇
折られてあわれ 清らの色香
永久にあせぬ 紅におう
野なかの薔薇
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足利
The City of Ashikaga
友だちの家を訪れるのは、おもしろいから好きだった。同級生ばかりでなく近所の遊び仲間の家にも、遠慮なく押しかけた。
I liked visiting my friends' places because they were interesting to see. I did not hesitate to visit not only the homes of my classmates but also those of my neighborhood playmates.
我が家の前の料亭の脇の道を線路の方向に歩いていくと、下級生の恒夫くんの家に突き当たる。外で相撲を取ったりいっしょに遊んだりした後について行き、お邪魔することもあれば、木戸のあたりから「恒夫くーん」と呼んで、出てくるのを待つこともあった。
Walking down the alley that leads from the Japanese retaurant in front of my house toward the railroad tracks, I came across a house where Tsuneo, a boy younger than I, lived with his family members. Sometimes I would follow Tsuneo after he had sumo wrestled or played with his friends outside and intrude on his house, and sometimes I would call out "Tsuneo-kun" from around the wooden door and wait for him to come out.
お姉さんがいて同じ学年だった。同級生ではなかったが近所だから見知っていた。スラリと背が高くて色白なのは母親似で、親子でそっくりだった。路地の向こうから出てくるときの素振りまで似ていて、少し上空の方にある顔はいつも微笑んでいた。恒夫くんと遊んでいるときに、このお姉さんがやって来ていっしょに遊ぶことはまったくなかった。
He had an older sister. She and I were not in the same class, but I sometimes saw her in the neighborhood. She was slender, tall, and fair, just like her mother. They looked exactly alike, and.even more so when they came out from the alley, always looking downwards and smiling. When I was playing with Tsuneo, this older sister never came over to play with us.
線路際の屋敷という感じがする、その家は、敷地も広く、このあたりにたくさんある整理屋稼業の普通の家とは違っていた。和風の池が敷地のまんなかに居座り、池の向こうに離れの座敷があり、その縁側から水面を眺めると竹筒からいつも水が流れていて池の中に鯉が泳いでいるのが見えた。亀もいるらしかった。
The house, which looked like a mansion located by the railroad tracks, had a large lot and was different from many of the ordinary houses around here that were run by organizers. A Japanese-style pond sat in the middle of the property, and there was a separate tatami room on the other side of the pond. From the veranda of the room, I could see carp swimming under the surface of the pond, which was being watered from the bamboo pipe. There was also a turtle there.
下級生相手の遊びはあまりおもしろくない。おもちゃの自動車や鉄道の模型はきらいだった。それなのになぜ遊びに来るのかというと、家の雰囲気が気にいっていたからだった。惹きつけられて呼び寄せられるのだった。
Playing with my junior was not so interesting. I hated toy cars and model trains. The reason why I came to play with him was because I liked the atmosphere of the house, which attracted me.
庭には温室風の小さな建物があった。見かけは、土によくマッチする小屋に近い建物で、中に何があるのかはわからなかった。たぶん物置みたいな建物だろうと思っていた。
There was a small greenhouse-style building in the garden. It appeared to be a shed-like building that matched the soil around well, but I did not know what was inside. I thought it was probably a storage building.
あるとき、恒夫くんといっしょに庭にいたときに訊いてみた。
One day, when Tsuneo and I were in the garden together, I asked him about it.
「ここ、なんなんだ?」
"What is this place?"
恒夫くんは近寄ってはこなかった。
Tsuneo did not come close to me.
「おしっこして来る」と言って、逃げるようにして母屋の中に行ってしまった。
He said, "I'm going to pee," and ran away and went inside the main house.
鍵のかかっていないガラス張りの扉を押しあけると、簡単に中に入れた。室内は土間で、ガラス窓の南北の両側にテーブルが並んでいて、その上の木箱の中に丸くて白いものがいくつもあった。理解不能の別世界だった。
I pushed open the unlocked glass door and easily entered. The room had a dirt floor, with tables lined up on both the north and south sides of the glass window, and a number of round, white objects in wooden boxes on them. It was another world beyond comprehension.
恒夫くんはなかなか戻らなかった。僕は一人でいるのも手持ち無沙汰だったので帰ることにした。北側に葉の多い低木がたくさん植えられている。その脇を通って木戸を開け、路地を戻って通りまで出た。
Tsuneo did not return. I was too bored to be alone, so I decided to leave. There were many leafy shrubs planted on the north side. I walked in front of them, opened the wooden door, and walked back down the alley to the street.
「気持ち悪いものを見てしまった」
"I saw something disgusting."
帰宅して、店番をしていた母に言った。
I came home and told so to my mother, who was tending to the store.
「白くて丸いものが温室みたいなところにたくさんあるんだ」
"There's a bunch of white, round things in what looks like a greenhouse."
「ああ、富田さんちね、蚕を飼っていて繭を作っているんだよ。繭から取れた生糸から着物ができる」
"Oh, Mr. Tomita's family keep silkworms which make cocoons. The raw silk from the cocoons is used to make kimono."
「そうなのか。なんか変な家だね、あそこんち」
"Is that so? What a strange house that place is."
「景子ちゃんの弟の恒夫くんなんか、虫が怖いって言っているみたいだね」
"Keiko's younger brother Tsuneo seems to be afraid of the insects."
「よく知っているね」
"You know a lot about them, don't you?"
「それはそう、近所の大事なお客さんだからね」
"That's right. They're important customers in the neighborhood."
二軒先の床屋の裏の一軒家に一人で住んでいるおばあちゃんはあまり外には出ない。しかし、どこから仕入れるのか、かなりの情報通で、母はよく床屋の向こう側の路地を通って奥に入り、その家の縁側からおばあちゃんと話し込むことがあった。もしかしたら床屋で働いている鶴ちゃんという名前の女性の母親かもしれないが、容貌はあまり似ていない。また、先生と呼ばれている床屋の男の人も謎の人物だったが、もしかしたら鶴ちゃんの旦那かもしれない。ただ、二人で仲良く話すところは一度もみかけたことがない。どうにもこの三人の関係はよくわからなかった。
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日本語☆クールな名言
The universe
in which we live
began
only 13.8 billion years ago.
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われわれの住む
この宇宙は、
ほんの138億年前に
始まったばかりである。
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only 13.8 billion years ago
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Shoes, sing ―Katsura Shimizu
お手てつないで
野道を行けば
みんな可愛い
小鳥になって
唄をうたえば靴が鳴る
晴れたみ空に靴が鳴る
お手てつないで
野道を行けば
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Hand in hand,
All of us,
Go along the field path.
みんな可愛い
小鳥になって
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Be little birds,
All of us,
How pretty they are!
唄をうたえば靴が鳴る
晴れたみ空に靴が鳴る
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Sing a song,
All of us,
Shoes in tune,
High above into the sky.
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お手てつないで 野道を行けばみんな可愛い小鳥になって
・汽車の窓からハンケチ振れば牧場の乙女が花束なげる(高原列車は行く)できるのか
・窓を開ければ港が見える メリケン波止場の灯が見える(別れのブルース)できるかも
・柿くえば鐘が鳴る(正岡子規)むずかしそう
・国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった(雪国)できるかも
・田子の浦ゆ打ち出てみれば真白にぞ富士の高嶺に(山部赤人)
唄をうたえば靴が鳴る
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雲雀料理
The fresh green and fragrant breeze on a May morning make my life aristocratic. ―Sakutaro Hagiwara五月の朝の新緑と薫風は、
私の生活を貴族風にする。
したたる空色の窓の下で、
私の愛する女と共に
純銀のふおうくを動かしたい。
私の生活にもいつかは一度、
あの空に光る、
雲雀料理の愛の皿を盗んで喰べたい。
五月の朝の新緑と薫風は、
私の生活を貴族風にする。
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The fresh green and fragrant breeze
On a May morning
Make my life aristocratic.
したたる空色の窓の下で、
私の愛する女と共に
純銀のふおうくを動かしたい。
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Under the window,
Full of sky-blue
That drips and drops overflowing
I would like to sit at table
With the woman I love,
Sterling silver knife and fork in hand.
私の生活にもいつかは一度、
あの空に光る、
雲雀料理の愛の皿を盗んで喰べたい。
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Once in my life sometime,
I would like to eat larks' dish of love
Shining above in the sky.
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卵
いと高き梢にありて、
ちいさなる卵ら光り、
あふげば小鳥の巣は光り、
いまはや罪びとの祈るときなる。
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림진강
イムジン河 水清く
とうとうと流る
水鳥自由に むらがり飛びかうよ
我が祖国 南の地
おもいははるか
イムジン河 水清く
とうとうと流る
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Over the purity and richness of the water body of the Imujin River,
Birds are flying freely in many flocks.
Our wishes are from far away,
Over the river's purely rich water,
Towards the south to our homeland.
北の大地から
南の空へ
飛びゆく鳥よ 自由の使者よ
だれが祖国を
二つにわけてしまったの
誰が祖国をわけてしまったの
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From the northern land
To the southern sky,
Birds fly as free messengers.
Who has divided ours into two?
Who has separated us from each other?
イムジン河 空遠く
虹よかかっておくれ
河よ おもいを伝えておくれ
ふるさとをいつまでも
忘れはしない
イムジン河 水清く
とうとうと流る
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High above over the Imujin, please be a rainbow bridge!
Please the river, convey our wishes!
We’ll never forget our homeland,
Till the end of the water flow.
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曲:高宗漢
日本語詞:松山猛
補作曲:加藤和彦
英訳:須田誠也
イムジン河 水清くとうとうと流る 水鳥自由に むらがり飛びかうよ
♡私がよく聞くのはザ・フォーク・クルセダーズ版の「イムジン河」。これはサディスティック・ミカ・バンドの松山猛さんが日本語歌詞を作り、フォークルの加藤に伝えたものらしい。歌詞全体はもう少し長いようだ。
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春の海
ひねもす
のたりのたりかな
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Ah, calm spring sea!
All day long
Repeats again and again
The movement of waves dull and slow.
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The phrase “notari notari” is a mimetic phrase of pseudo onomatopoeic words, a language form that symbolically expresses something without sound by imagining as if it had sound.
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アメリカ合州国:
改めて「合衆国」を考えてみると
衆はpeopleに通じ、
あたかもさまざまな人民、
さまざまな民族がひとつにとけあった
理想社会であるかのような誤解を与える。
しかし、現在は
「弱肉強食」が自由にできる
典型的社会である。
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アメリカ合州国:
Once again,
consider the “合衆国”.
The word “衆” is connected to “people”,
So, the name tends to give us
misunderstanding
as if it were an ideal society
in which various peoples and ethnic groups
were mixed and united as one,
However, today,
they live in a society
where people typically observe
the principle of the survival of the fittest,
“the strong eat up the weak."
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アメリカ合州国:改めて「合衆国」を考えてみると衆はpeopleに通じ、
So, the name tends to give us misunderstanding as if it were an ideal society in which various peoples and ethnic groups were mixed and united as one,
However, today, they live in a society where people typically observe the principle of the survival of the fittest, "the strong eat up the weak."
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When the bell tolls, the gingko trees scatter their leaves at Kenchoji Temple. ―Soseki
When you take a bite out of a persimmon, the bell tolls at Horyuji Temple. ―Shiki
東京帝国大学での同級生であった漱石と子規は、雑誌『ホトトギス』を拠点とした創作活動や句会などへの参加を通じて親交があったことで知られている。上の2つの句はそうした親交の中での産物。漱石のほうが元歌、子規のほうが返歌に相当する関係がある。
Soseki and Shiki, who were classmates at Tokyo Imperial University, are known for their friendship through their creative activities based on the magazine “Hototogisu” and their participation in haiku gatherings. The two haiku above are the product of such friendship. Soseki's is the original poem and Shiki's is the equivalent of a reply poem.
Comparing the both, Shiki's is by far superior to Soseki's in terms of the value of being well known to the Japanese people. Soseki's first poem, “Kane tsukeba,” is a little appealing, but overall it can't be said very interesting. In contrast, Shiki's first phrase, “Kaki kuheba” itself is interesting and innovative. Shiki was said to be a great lover of persimmons.
The combinations of the conditional phrase “〜すれば” and the consequential phrase “〜するなり” are also interesting in that “Kaki kuheba kane ga naru” is more elegantly sounded than “Kane tsukeba icho chirunari." Also, “Kenchoji Temple” at the end would lose out to “Horyuji Temple.
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Poems are like the breathings for novels that do not have any. ―Saisei Murou
詩って
小説にない
小説の息みたいなものなのね。
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Poems are
like
the breathings for novels
that do not have any.
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These words were said by Enko, a character in the novel “Anzukko”. Enko seems to be the mistress of the main character Heishiro. It is a line from a scene where Enko is found writing something like a poem in her notebook and is asked to show it to him. Although these are the words of a character in the story, so they are considered separate from the author's thoughts, we may assume that they express the thoughts of Saisei, a poet and novelist.
詩って小説にない小説の息みたいなものなのね
"Breaths of novels" are not said to exist in novels, so it is reasonable to take it to mean "breaths for novels." In English, the relationship is not breath(ing)s of novels, but breath(ing)s for novels, i.e., the poem breathes for the novels instead of them. Novels do not breathe. Instead, poetry breathes for them. Poetry breathes for novels. I am guessing that this is what she is trying to say, but I don't know if she is right or not. It is just a guess.
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Your hometown is the place to be thought of from far away and sung of sadly. ―Saisei Murou
ふるさとは
遠きにありて思ふもの
そして悲しくうたふもの
よしや
うらぶれて異土の乞食となるとても
帰るところにあるまじや
ひとり都のゆふぐれに
ふるさとおもひ涙ぐむ
そのこころもて
遠きみやこにかへらばや
遠きみやこにかへらばや
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Your hometown is the place
to be thought of from far away and sung of sadly
Even if
you have become a beggar in a foreign land
you had better not go back there
With the approach of dusk,
you, alone in the metropolitan city, think of your hometown
with tears in your eyes
Cherishing that thought
you would like to go back to the distant metropolitan city
you would like to go back to the distant metropolitan city
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Although it is sometimes considered a poem of nostalgia, the poet's feelings are more complex, and he even goes so far as to say that it is not a place to return to.
ふるさとは遠きにありて思ふもの そして悲しくうたふもの
The declaration that “hometown” is something to think about from far away and sing sad songs about, and nothing else. The word “もの” shows the declarative character of this phrase.
think of 〜、sing of 〜のofは思いと歌の対象を表すもの。
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Your hometown is the place to be thought of from far away and sung of sadly.
よしやうらぶれて異土の乞食となるとても帰るところにあるまじや
☆異土の乞食は「いどのかたい」と読むもよう。異国の地でのこじき。
☆「〜にあるまじ」は「〜ではない」。「や」は詠嘆。
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Even if you have become a beggar in a foreign land you had better not go back there
ひとり都のゆふぐれにふるさとおもひ涙ぐむ
☆望郷の思いは涙ぐむほどまでに強い。
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With the approach of dusk you, alone in the metroplitan city, think of your hometown with tears in your eyes
そのこころもて遠きみやこにかへらばや 遠きみやこにかへらばや
☆なお、みやこ(皇居のある場所)はみな、京が付く。藤原京、平城京、平安京、東京。
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Cherishing that thought you would like to go back to the distant metropolitan city you would like to go back to the distant metropolitan city
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It is me who is playing with a crab, shedding tears, against the white sand of the beach of the islet in the East Sea. ―Takuboku Ishikawa
東海の小島の磯の白砂に
われ泣きぬれて
蟹とたはむる
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It is me
who is playing with a crab,
shedding tears,
against the white sand of the beach
of the islet in the East Sea.
東海の小島の磯の白砂に
[tokai-no kojima-no iso-no shirasuna-ni]
Where is the Tokai? According to the internet, there are various opinions, such as the sea around Oma Benten 1, Oma-cho, Shimokita-gun, Aomori Prefecture, or the sea at Omori-hama in Hakodate, etc. It does not seem to be the Tokai region where the JR Tokai railway runs. Takuboku's hometown is Hinomura, Minami-Iwate-gun (now Morioka City), Iwate Prefecture, and Jodogahama, Miyako City, near Morioka, may be also a candidate. Of course there must be islands. Anyway, the East Sea seems to be the Pacific Ocean.
The scene is zooming in on a series of no. The first Tokai can be considered a place name. After that, however, it becomes more materialized than a place name, with a small island, a rocky shore, and the white sand of the beach being the canvas for the composition in which Takuboku probably laid himself down, wept and played with a crab. The final ni is therefore difficult to grasp. This particle represents a canvas rather than a place.
against the white sand of the beach of the islet in the East Sea
われ泣きぬれて蟹とたはむる
[ware nakinure-te kani-to tawamuru]
It is me who is playing with a crab, shedding tears
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無手勝流
Hamburger Menu
This was the third attempt to introduce a hamburger menu. The menu is shown by an icon
≡ which is used especially on mobile phones because it does not take up much space. I have visited many websites and learned how to set up the menu, but I have not been able to make it work due to my lack of ability.
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White and Purple
According to the results of my research so far, the combination of colors, white and purple, have something to do with human color vision. I have not seen the show, but it was mentioned on Tamori's program that many elderly people dye their hair purple when they dye their gray hair. This is because of the color relationship between white and purple. It is said that when a small amount of purple, which has a shorter wavelength, is mixed with white, which has a longer wavelength, the white color stands out more. This is why many elderly people use the dye purple.
According to the research, this may be related to Rayleigh scattering, a phenomenon in which light is scattered by particles or fluctuations that are smaller than the wavelength of light. I am not sure if this is really the case, but it may be that purple particles in the air scatter over white guardrails and white lines indicating sidewalks, which have longer wavelengths, causing the annoyance. Or, perhaps, it may be the purple color of flying mosquitoes, like the eggs of frogs with flying mosquito syndrome in my eyes, that are reflected on the white of a street under the condition of clear day. I say that because it is a phenomenon with my right eye which has more mosquitoes in it.
One-man Bon Odori Dance Festival
The days are getting colder and colder. For those for whom rehabilitation is a matter of life and death, if they can walk in a large indoor space, which is fine, but if they cannot and do not want to walk in the cold, I recommend a one-man Bon Odori dance festival. It is enough if you can secure a space as small as a tatami mat. You can do it there. You will dance.
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Urinary Retention and Drainage
It was a few years ago that my brother in Gunma Prefecture, who is three years older than me, lamented over the phone. At the time, I thought nothing like that would ever happen to me, and I had been happy to the fact during all these years. Finally, however, as Paul sang, yesterday came suddenly.
開口部から管をぐっと差し込まれる。 A tube was inserted through the opening.
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How you can pass water or how you cannot
To some extent, we can understand why we sometimes become unable to urinate if we understand how urine is produced and discharged. Urine accumulates in the bladder, and there are sensors that keep an eye on whether the bladder wall has stretched or contracted, and the stretching and contracting of the wall muscles is transmitted to the urination center in the brainstem, which issues a command to be done. If the muscles of the bladder wall stretch considerably, the brain will issue a command to urinate. This causes the bladder to contract, and the discharge door opens to drain the urine safely.
Urinary retention occurs when this mechanism does not work properly. One is that the bladder may not be able to function properly because the nerve circuit itself is inoperative, or because of a herniated disc, diabetes, etc. Another is that the urinary tract may be blocked due to an enlarged prostate gland.
In my personal experience, the urinary tract may have been obstructed by an abscess caused by an infection in the prostate area, or by hemorrhoids, which cause a fecal impaction near the anus, which also obstructs the opening of the urinary tract, or perhaps by acute diabetes, as was later discovered at the time of admission. The causes of the disease were a combination of unfortunate events.
Once you have urinary retention, you should not leave it untreated. There are some ways to make it easier to urinate. The next time I have urinary retention, I would like to try stimulating with warm water and pressing slowly on the lower abdomen; I was too upset to make these efforts when I had the disease in August.
Blood glucose level of 500 mg/dl
Looking at the test results at the time of admission to the hospital, the letter H, which indicates a high value, is lined up in a row. Among them, the blood glucose level of 500 stands out.
It is said that a blood glucose level over 500 causes nausea and vomiting, loss of consciousness, and coma, but I did not experience any of these dangers. I am sure it was 500 when they inspected about it. I did not remember when the blood sample was taken, but it must have been done amid the confusion.
It all started with a quake on Sunday, September 1, after lunch, just as my wife was about to go out to attend at a cello concert. I felt myself to quake all over the body, never to stop. I had been like a prisoner with a urinary catheter attached to myself for the past 10 days or so. I no longer drink, which I have been doing for decades, but my hemorrhoids were not getting any better.
After the CT scan, I was placed in a bed in one of the four-person rooms that had been made. Since I had been waiting for so long, I assumed it was late at night. However, it was only about 6:00 pm. It was time for the dinner trays to be brought to each hospital room. My shaking had subsided, and I was hungry, so I wondered if I would be served.
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The disease name was prostate abscess and type II diabetes mellitus (hospitalization notes #4)
Initially, the name of the disease was urinary tract infection. It was assumed that the urethral catheter had caused a wound in the urinary tract, from which a bacterial infection had developed. Later, however, based on the results of CT scans and other tests, the name of the disease was changed to prostate abscess. The abscess was caused by a bacterial infection around the prostate gland. I was told that it was a troublesome abscess that would not go away soon.
Unfortunately, the catheterization, which was very difficult and painful, had to be continued. An intravenous infusion of antibiotics was started with the aim of eliminating the abscess. In addition, insulin injections and medication were also started to deal with high blood sugar.
The morning basically began with a blood glucose test around 6 am. A small amount of blood is drawn from a needle inserted into the belly of a finger disinfected with alcohol cotton and aspirated into a sensor to measure the blood glucose level. Depending on that value, the dose of insulin is determined and injected subcutaneously into the abdomen. All of this is done by a nurse. On my first day in the hospital, my blood sugar was 500, but the next day it was in the 200s, and it stayed around that level for a couple of days.
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Stopped Drinking
When I stopped drinking that lasted for many years after this hospitalization, I experienced the same kind of food reinstatement that I experienced when I quit smoking at age 64. That's already about 15 years ago (April 19, 2008, 3:00 p.m.). I suddenly had the idea to stop smoking any cigarettes, which I used to smoke two packs a day. The only thing that changed was that I no longer had to spend the money I used to smoke. The amount of money that I have been recording as my “non-smoking savings account” has been growing rapidly and steadily.
Food used to be not the chief customer: Snacks are to enhance sake taste and nuts to make whiskey taste better. In short, alcohol was main. However, when it is removed, the unique flavor of each food comes to you directly as its own thing, not through sake. I began to gobble up the food in an attempt to capture that flavor.
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Inpatient Wards and Privacy
When I was first admitted to the hospital, my room seemed to be in the digestive ward, not the urology ward. It was summer and many of the rooms had open windows, so the sound of ambulances arriving on the first floor could be heard incessantly outside the window, and the electronic noise associated with the opening and closing of the elevator doors was frequently heard. These are noises we do not want. At the windows, the noises associated with the air conditioning system also seemed to be heard frequently. The man at the window of the first room was overtly uncomfortable with these noises and did not want to be there.
This man did not necessarily want to be hospitalized. However, he was sent here, probably by his wife, perhaps because he was exhibiting severe symptoms. Like many husbands, he is the target of moral harassment, but since he has been with his wife for so long, it is probably safer for her for him to be hospitalized, I think.
In fact, it seems that he had already decided to enter an endowment care facility and was in the process of signing a contract in the near future. It is common in a hospital room shared by several people for such information to come in on its own, even if you don't try to ask. They had a heated discussion one evening about whether or not to discharge the patient, including the attending physician and his wife. I could hear everything and I was so bored that I listened.
A few days later, I moved to the urology ward. This time it was quieter in a secluded area, with curtains separating each section of four-person rooms, each with its own bed, TV, and refrigerator. There was a lavatory next to each room, so it was never crowded, but the plumbing near the entrance was after meals. When you watch TV, you listen to the sound with earphones. I watched sumo wrestling while lying down on the bed. All the meals were brought to the patients. The quality of the meals improves as blood sugar levels drop and the patients get better.
It gets uncomfortable especially at night. Some people are in the habit of staying up late and others go to bed early, so they don't mesh well with each other. Some patients are so anxious that they talk frequently and rant around the nurses' station.
After moving to a new hospital room, I found myself next to the former president of a large corporation. As expected, he has interesting things to say, and I never get tired of listening to his interactions with the nurses. However, his condition is not good at all. I wondered if he had been playing or working too much. He can hardly walk, his lungs are filled with water, he has difficulty breathing, and his kidneys have deteriorated to the point where he has to undergo dialysis. The company's performance suggests that he has done great things, but it must not be very interesting for him to end up like this. I got the strong impression that I do not want to walk down a path that would lead to dialysis.
英語☆クールな名言
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I don't like to eat snails.
I prefer fast food.
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カタツムリは口に合わん。
ファーストフードのほうがましだ。
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Edible (adj).
Good to eat
and
wholesome to digest,
as
a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake,
a snake to a pig, a pig to a man,
and a man to a worm.
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食べられる [形]
おいしくて
消化によい。
たとえば、
虫はヒキガエルに、ヒキガエルはヘビに、
ヘビはブタに、ブタは人間に、
そして、人間は虫に、
それぞれ向いている。
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Actually,
it only takes one drink
to get me loaded.
Trouble is,
I can't remember
if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
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実際のところ
私は1 杯で酔う。
問題は
その1杯が13回目か14回目のか
思い出せないことだ。
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Middle age
is
whenever you go on holiday you pack a sweater.
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中年とは
いつであれ休暇の旅行に出かける際に
セーターも1着荷物に入れておく時のことをいう。
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cf. A is when 〜.「Aというのは、〜のときのことだ」この形をとっている名言はいくつもある。たとえば
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. —Ogden Nash
とか、
A panic is when my wife loses her job. —Edgar Fiedler
パニックってのは、女房が失業するときのことだな —エドガー・フィードラー
とか、前にこの『クールな』でもご紹介した
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important. —Milo Bloom
とか。

[前置詞を知る]
at
atは「1点」
At represents one point.
atは「1点」を表します。「〜に到着する」を意味するarrive
atは、arrive
inに比較すると、場所は場所でもかなりずっと抽象的な場所、地図上の1点、あるいは他の地点から区別してのその1点、場所としてずいぶん概念的な場所、目的地、といったような抽象的な場所がatの後に来ます。それに対してarrive
inのほうは、抽象性はまったくなく、場所は場所でも具体的な場所、広さやら奥行きやら幅やらが具体的に感じとれ、その内部を描写できるような場所がinの後に来ます。
At represents 'one point.' Therefore, compared to "arrive in," "arrive
at" precedes a much more abstract place, a point on the map, a point
distinguished from other points, a conceptual place, a destination, etc.
In contrast, 'arrive in' is not followed by an abstract place at all.
'Arrive in' introduces a concrete place, a place where you can get a
describable sense of size, depth, width, and so on.
たとえばThey
arrived at the
building.「その建物のところに到着した」は、buildingを地図上の目印、到着地点としてとらえます。この場合はbuildingの広さや内部にはまったく関心がいかず、むしろ「〜のところ」という日本語にあたるような、排他的、選択的な「位置」に関心がいきます。こういった場合にatが使われます。それに対して、arrive
in
〜は、到着場所が視覚的なイメージとして具体的にぱーっと広がるそのまっただなかに到着するものとして区別できるでしょう。客観的に見て場所が広いか狭いかということで使い分けるのではなく,あくまでも話し手の主観の問題,場所のとらえ方,場所に対する感じ方の問題です。ことばの問題よりも意味論の問題になります。
For example, "They arrived at the building. Here, we are not
interested in the size or interior of the building, but rather in the
exclusive, selective "location," as in the Japanese phrase "〜のところ,"
which means 'at around,' shows. In such a case, 'at' is used. In
contrast, 'arrive in 〜' can be distinguished as arriving in the midst of
a concrete visual image of the place of arrival. It is not a matter of
whether the place is objectively large or small, but rather a matter of
the speaker's subjectivity, the way he perceives the place, and the way
he feels about the place. It is more a matter of semantics than a matter
of words.
I bought this vitamine drink at the convenience store.
(このビタミンドリンクはコンビニで買った)
この文では、atはコンビニを1つの地点としてとらえています。日本語の助詞でいうと「で」ということです。
In this sentence, 'at' is used because the store is perceived as one
point selected among others. In Japanese the meaning is represented by
'de.'
He found a great many people in the supermarket.
(スーパーにはたくさんの人々がいた)
と言うなら, スーパーの建物という具体的な内部を持つ大きな構造体の中に身を置いて状況をとらえたことになります。日本語でいうと「の中に入って」ということです。点的にとらえるかそうでないかの区別原理がここで働いています。
In this sentence, you are capturing the situation by placing yourself
inside the supermarket building, which is a large structure with a
describable interior. In Japanese, it means "inside of". The principle
of distinction between pointwise and non-pointwise perception also comes
into play here.
時と原因 Time & Cause
この原理は, at が「時」や「原因」を意味するときにもあてはまる共通原理です。 This principle is a common one under the categories of time and cause.
at noon (正午に)
at the end of this month (今月末に)
at last(ついに)
at that time (そのとき)
どれも点的にとらえることのできる時間が後続しています。 In any of the sentences, 'at' is followed by the time expression that can be captured in terms of points.
ところが、もっと心理的に広く感じられる時間となると
However, when it comes to time that can be perceived more psychologically broad,
in the year of 1993 (1993年に)
in the morning (午前中に)
on Monday (月曜日に)
on his birthday(彼の誕生日に)
のようにin や on などが使われます。
'in' or 'on' is used.
at nightのnightについては、夜はかつて常に電気なしの暗闇の中にあったことを思い出してほしいと思います。そのような場合、人間は活動から遠ざかって寝る傾向がありました。そういう夜ならば、点と呼ばれる理由は十分にありました。だからatを使ったのでしょう。夜間の人間活動が盛んになるに連れ、in the nightの表現も増えてきているのだと思います。
As for 'night' in 'at night,' you should recall the night once was
always in the dark without electricity. In such a case, human beings
tend to go to bed away from any activities. If nights were so, nights
have every reason to be referred as a point. So they used 'at', I
think. As human activity at night increases, the expressions using in the night are also increasing, I think.
He was tired from a long walk.
(長く歩いたことで疲れていた)
Ms. Hepburn died of cancer.
(ヘップバーンさんはガンで死んだ)
The accident was brought about through carelessness.
(事故は不注意から起こった)
では「原因」を言うのに from や of が使われています。
In examples above, the cause is referred to by from or of.
atは
I was surprised at the news. (その知らせを聞いて驚いた)
のように使って「原因」を表します。 このとき at は「接触点」を表します。 人間とできごととの,人間と知らせとの,ぶつかりのあいの接点を at が表します。 その接点こそ,目や耳や知能にほかならないので,「〜を見て(聞いて・知って)」となります。
On the other hand, 'at' represents the "point of contact" between human
beings and events or news. The point of contact is none other than eye,
ear, and intellect, so we say, "to see/hear/ know) 〜".
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a. There are a few Brazilians who play ( ) the soccer teams in Japan.
b. I'm a member ( ) the team.
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The answer is a.
★a. を in と考えたらあかん。チームの中でプレーすることになって試合に出れんかもしれん。on the team の on は、チームに参加して活躍中っていう意味。b.はめんばーだからふつうはof。
There are a few Brazilians who play on the soccer teams in Japan. (日本のサッカーチームでプレーするブラジル人が少しいる)
I'm a member of the team. (僕はそのチームのメンバーです)
むふふふふ
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つくったひと: なぞの怪人
ちょさくけん: なぞの怪人
おーるらいつりざーぶど。
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An abacus is still (a. for b. on c. in) use in Asia, especially in Japan (a. with b. about c. for) simple calculations.
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abacus って「そろばん」。
calculation「計算」。
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The former is c, and the latter is also c.
★for は for personal use(個人で使うために) っていうふうに使う。of use(=useful)はあるけど、on use はない。in use「使われて」。
★for simple calculations の for は「用途」、つまり、「使い道」を表すんじゃ。
An abacus is still in use in Asia,
especially in Japan for simple calculations.
(そろばんはアジアで今も使われている。
特に日本においては簡単な計算をするために使われている)
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つくったひと: なぞの怪人
ちょさくけん: なぞの怪人
おーるらいつりざーぶど。
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