長いですがおねがいします Punctually at midday he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook, and a bundle of palmyra writing. His forehead was resplendent with sacred ash and vermilion, and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an outcome of a continual serching look for customers, but which his simple clients took to be a prophetic light and felt comforted. The power of his eyes was considerably enhanced by their position --- placed as they were between the painted forehead and the dark whiskers which streamed down his cheeks; even a half-wit's eyes would sparkle in such a setting. To crown the effect he wound a saffron coloured turban around his head. This colour scheme never failed. People were attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks. He sat under the boughs of a spreading tamarind tree which flanked a path running through the Town Hall Park. It was a remarkable place in many ways; a surging crowd was always moving up and down this narrow road morning till night. A variety of trades and occupations was represented all along its way; medicine sellers, sellers of stolen hardware and junk; magicians, and, above all, an auctioneer of charp cloth, who created enough din all day to attract the whole town. Next to him in vociferousness came a vendor of fried groundnut, who gave his were a fancy name each day, calling it "Bombay Ice-Cream" one day, and on the next "Delhi Almond," and on the third "Raja's Delicacy," and so on and so forth, and people flocked to him. A considerable portion of this crowd dallied before the astrologer too.
The astrologer transacted his business by the light of a flare which crackled and smoked up above the groundnut heap nearby. Half the enchantment of the place was due to the fact that it did not have the benefit of municipal lighting. The place was lit up by shop lights. One or two had hissing gaslights, some had naked flares stuck on poles, some were lit up by old cycle lamps, and one or two, like the astrologer's, managed without lights of their own. It was a bewil-dering criss-cross of light rays and moving shadows. This suited the astrologer very well, for the simple reason that he had not in the least intended to be an astrologer when he began life; and he knew no more of what was going to happen to others than be knew what was going to happen to himself next minute. He was as much a stranger to the stars as were his innocent customers. Yet he said things which pleased and astonished everyone: that was more a matter of study, practice, and shrewd guess-work. All the same, it was as much an honest man's labour as any other, and he deserved the wages he carried home at the end of a day. He had left his village without any previous thought or plan. If he had continued there he would have carried on the work of his forefathers --- namely, tilling the land, living, marrying, and ripening in his cornfield and ancestral home. But that was not to be. He had to leave home without telling anyone, and he could not rest till he left it behind a couple of hundred miles. To a villager it is a great deal, as if an ocean flowed between. He had a working analysis of mankind's troubles: marriage, money, and the tangles of human ties. Long practice had sharpened his perception. Within five minutes he understood what was wrong. He charged three pies per question, never opened his month till the other had spoken for at least ten minutes, which provided him enough stuff for a dozen answers and advices.
When he told the person before him, gazing at his plam, "In many ways you are not getting the fullest results for your efforts," nine out of ten were disposed to agree with him. Or he questioned: "Is there any woman in your family, maybe even a distant relative, who is not well disposed towards you?" Or he gave an analysis of character: "Most of your troubles are due to your nature. How can you be otherwise with Saturn where he is? You have an impetuous nature and a rough exterior." This endeared him to their hearts immendiately, for even the mildest ofus loves to think that he has a forbidding exterior. The nuts vendor blew out his flare and rose to go home. This was a signal for the astrologer to bundle up too, since it left him in darkness expect for a little shaft of green light which strayed in from somewhere and touched the ground before him. He picked up his cowrie shells and paraphernalia and was putting them back into his bag when the green shaft of light was blotted out: he looked up and saw a man standing before him. He sensed a possible client and said: "You look so careworn. It will do you good to sit down for a while and chat with me." The other grumbled some reply vaguely. The astrologer pressed his invitation; whereupon the other thrust his plam under his nose, saying: "You call yourself an astrologer?" The astrologer felt challenged and said, tilting the other's plam towards the green shaft of light: "Yours is a nature..." "Oh, stop that," the other said. "Tell me something worth-while..."
At three thirty that afternoon, Harry, Ron, and their classmates walked quickly down the front steps for their first flying lesson. It was a clear day, with a little wind. The other class was already there, and there were twenty brooms lying in lines on the ground. Their teacher, Madam Hooch, arrived. She had short, gray hair and yellow eyes like a bird. "Well, what are you all waiting for?" she shouted. "Everyone stand by a broom. Come on, hurry up!"
以下続きです。 Harry looked down at his broom. It was an old one. "Put out your right hand over your broom," called Madam Hooch from the front, "and say, 'Up!'" "Up!" everyone shouted. Harry's broom jumped into his hand at once, but it was one of the few that did. Hermione's simply rolled over on the ground and Neville's hadn't moved at all. Perhaps brooms, like horses, knew when you were afraid, thought Harry; Neville's broom could hear in his voice that he did not want to do this, he just wanted to keep his feet on the ground. Madam Hooch then showed them how to get on their brooms, and walked up and down, showing them how to hold the brooms. Harry and Ron laughed quietly when she told Malfoy that he always did it wrong. "Now, when I blow my whistle, you kick off from the ground, hard," said Madam Hooch. "Don't move your brooms, rise a few feet and then come straight back down by pushing your body forward a little. On my whistle ― three ― two ―" But Neville was so afraid of being left on the ground that he kicked off before the whistle had even touched Madam Hooch's lips. "Come back, boy!" she shouted, but Neville was rising straight up like a cork shot out of a bottle ― twelve feet ― twenty feet. Harry saw his scared white face look down as he left the ground, saw him open his mouth and ― fall off the broom.
Lesson1 What do you cll the @ symbol used in e-mail addresses? That little "a" with a circle curling around it that is found in e-mailaddresses is most commonly referred to as the "at" symbol. Surprisingly though,there is no officail,universal name for this sign. There are dozens of strange terms to describe the @ symbol. Several languages use words that associate the shape og the symbol with some type of animal. Before it became the standard symbol for electronic mail,the @ symbol was used to represent the cost or weight of something. For instance,if you purchased 6 apples,you might write it as 6 apples @ $1.10 each. With the introduction of e-mail came the popularity of the @ symbol. The @ symbol or the "at sign" separates a person's online user name from his or her mail server address. For instance,[email protected]. Its widespread use on the Internet made it necessary to put this symbol on keyboards in other countreis that have never seen or used the symbol before. As a result ,there is really no official name for this symbol.
Lesson3 What does the "http" part of web addresses maean? "It stands for 'Hyper Text Transfer Protocol',which is the set of rules that tell computers how to format and transmit Internet files",explains Howard Gerlis of the British Computer Society. When you type "http" at the start of a web addresses,you are labelling a request for information from your PC so that the computer receiving it knows what it is and how to deal with it. These days,however,mostcomputers are designed to assume that any request coming from a browser relates to an Internet file. That's why you don't usually have to actually type in "http" before "www..." anymore.
すいません、これ訳せないでしょうか?お願いします。 At three thirty that afternoon, Harry, Ron, and their classmates walked quickly down the front steps for their first flying lesson. It was a clear day, with a little wind. The other class was already there, and there were twenty brooms lying in lines on the ground. Their teacher, Madam Hooch, arrived. She had short, gray hair and yellow eyes like a bird. "Well, what are you all waiting for?" she shouted. "Everyone stand by a broom. Come on, hurry up!" Harry looked down at his broom. It was an old one. "Put out your right hand over your broom," called Madam Hooch from the front, "and say, 'Up!'" "Up!" everyone shouted. Harry's broom jumped into his hand at once, but it was one of the few that did. Hermione's simply rolled over on the ground and Neville's hadn't moved at all. Perhaps brooms, like horses, knew when you were afraid, thought Harry; Neville's broom could hear in his voice that he did not want to do this, he just wanted to keep his feet on the ground. Madam Hooch then showed them how to get on their brooms, and walked up and down, showing them how to hold the brooms. Harry and Ron laughed quietly when she told Malfoy that he always did it wrong. "Now, when I blow my whistle, you kick off from the ground, hard," said Madam Hooch. "Don't move your brooms, rise a few feet and then come straight back down by pushing your body forward a little. On my whistle ― three ― two ―"
続きです。 But Neville was so afraid of being left on the ground that he kicked off before the whistle had even touched Madam Hooch's lips. "Come back, boy!" she shouted, but Neville was rising straight up like a cork shot out of a bottle ― twelve feet ― twenty feet. Harry saw his scared white face look down as he left the ground, saw him open his mouth and ― fall off the broom. CRACK! ― there was a loud, nasty sound and Neville lay there, face down on the grass. His broom was still rising higher and higher, and slowly started moving away from them toward the forest. Madam Hooch was looking at Neville. Her face was as white as his. "Broken arm," she said quietly. "Come on, boy ― it's all right, up you get." She turned to speak to the others. "Now, all of you, don't move while I take this boy to the hospital! You leave those brooms where they are. Come on, dear."
"Did you see Neville's face? He is stupid!" said Malfoy when they left. He picked up something out of the grass. "And here's that stupid thing his grandma sent him." The Remembrall flashed in the sun as he held it up. "Give that here, Malfoy," said Harry quietly. Everyone stopped talking to watch. Malfoy smiled nastily. "I think I'll leave it somewhere for Neville to find later .... How about up a tree?" "Give it here!" Harry shouted, but in a second Malfoy had jumped on his broom and taken off. It was true, he really could fly well ― he shot toward the top of the biggest tree and called, "Come and get it, Potter!" Harry took up his broom.
続きです。 "No!" shouted Hermione. "Madam Hooch told us not to move ― you'll get us all into trouble." Harry did not listen to her. Blood was pounding in his ears. He jumped on the broom, kicked hard against the ground and up, up he shot after Malfoy. The air rushed through his hair ― and in a great flash of joy he realized he had found something he could do without being taught ― this was easy, this was wonderful. He pulled his broom up a little to take it even higher. He heard the cries of girls back on the ground and a loud shout of joy from Ron. He quickly turned his broom and faced Malfoy. Malfoy looked stunned. "Give it to me," Harry called, "or I'll push you off that broom!" "Oh, yeah?" said Malfoy, trying to smile, but looking worried. Harry knew, somehow, what to do. He pushed forward and grasped the broom tightly in both hands and with a jump it shot toward Malfoy. Malfoy only just got out of the way in time. Harry made a sudden turn and held the broom steady. A few people below were clapping. "You have no friends up here to save you," Harry called. It seemed that the same thought had just struck Malfoy. "Catch it if you can, then!" he shouted, and he threw the glass ball high into the air and shot back down toward the ground. Harry saw the ball slowly rise up in the air and then start to fall. He pushed his body forward and pointed down the broom ― next second he was speeding down, down, racing the ball ― wind in his ears, the shouts of people watching ― he shot out his hand ― a foot from the ground he caught it, just in time to pull his broom straight, and he landed softly on the grass with the Remembrall safely in his hand.
これで最後です。 "HARRY POTTER!" His heart fell. He was in big trouble. Professor McGonagall was running toward them. He got to his feet, but his legs felt weak under him. "Never ― in all my time at Hogwarts ―" Professor McGonagall could hardly speak with shock, and her glasses flashed angrily, "How dare you! ― might have broken your neck. Potter, follow me, now." Harry could see the nasty smile on Malfoy's face as he turned. He was going to have to leave the school. He just knew it.
長文和訳なんですが My "secret" is simply that I think of public speaking as no different from any other of talk. It's a way to share my thoughts with others. In one sense it's easier than social conversation because you can control what to talk about, and how to talk about it. However, this also means that you have to have something to say. よろしくお願いします
誰かこれを訳してください〜 Harry did not listen to her. Blood was pounding in his ears. He jumped on the broom, kicked hard against the ground and up, up he shot after Malfoy. The air rushed through his hair ― and in a great flash of joy he realized he had found something he could do without being taught ― this was easy, this was <I>wonderful</I>. He pulled his broom up a little to take it even higher. He heard the cries of girls back on the ground and a loud shout of joy from Ron. He quickly turned his broom and faced Malfoy. Malfoy looked stunned. "Give it to me," Harry called, "or I'll push you off that broom!" "Oh, yeah?" said Malfoy, trying to smile, but looking worried. Harry knew, somehow, what to do. He pushed forward and grasped the broom tightly in both hands and with a jump it shot toward Malfoy. Malfoy only just got out of the way in time. Harry made a sudden turn and held the broom steady. A few people below were clapping. "You have no friends up here to save you," Harry called. It seemed that the same thought had just struck Malfoy. "Catch it if you can, then!" he shouted, and he threw the glass ball high into the air and shot back down toward the ground. Harry saw the ball slowly rise up in the air and then start to fall. He pushed his body forward and pointed down the broom ― next second he was speeding down, down, racing the ball ― wind in his ears, the shouts of people watching ― he shot out his hand ― a foot from the ground he caught it, just in time to pull his broom straight, and he landed softly on the grass with the Remembrall safely in his hand.
"HARRY POTTER!" His heart fell. He was in big trouble. Professor McGonagall was running toward them. He got to his feet, but his legs felt weak under him. "Never ― in all my time at Hogwarts ―" Professor McGonagall could hardly speak with shock, and her glasses flashed angrily, "How dare you! ― might have broken your neck. Potter, follow me, now." Harry could see the nasty smile on Malfoy's face as he turned. He was going to have to leave the school. He just knew it.
An astrologer and palm-reader is about to close up shop for the day. He tries to induce one last client to buy his services. The man initially resists, but then gives in. The astrologer then reads in the man's past that he had once been stabbed and left for dead in his village. The man had all this time been searching for his assailant. The astrologer reveals that the assailant had "died four months ago in a far-off town." The client is relieved and goes home. When the astrologer returns to his home, he tells his wife that once he had tried to kill a man.
Wangari Maathai - Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2004
Wangari Maathai delivers her Nobel Lecture after receiving the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize in the Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway. Photo: John McConnico. Copyright c 2004 Pressens Bild AB, SE-112 88 Stockholm, Sweden, telephone: +46-8-738 38 00.
Your Majesties Your Royal Highnesses Honourable Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Excellencies Ladies and Gentlemen I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the first African woman to receive this prize, I accept it on behalf of the people of Kenya and Africa, and indeed the world. I am especially mindful of women and the girl child. I hope it will encourage them to raise their voices and take more space for leadership. I know the honour also gives a deep sense of pride to our men, both old and young. As a mother, I appreciate the inspiration this brings to the youth and urge them to use it to pursue their dreams. Although this prize comes to me, it acknowledges the work of countless individuals and groups across the globe. They work quietly and often without recognition to protect the environment, promote democracy, defend human rights and ensure equality between women and men. By so doing, they plant seeds of peace. I know they, too, are proud today. To all who feel represented by this prize I say use it to advance your mission and meet the high expectations the world will place on us. This honour is also for my family, friends, partners and supporters throughout the world.
All of them helped shape the vision and sustain our work, which was often accomplished under hostile conditions. I am also grateful to the people of Kenya - who remained stubbornly hopeful that democracy could be realized and their environment managed sustainably. Because of this support, I am here today to accept this great honour. I am immensely privileged to join my fellow African Peace laureates, Presidents Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the late Chief Albert Luthuli, the late Anwar el-Sadat and the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan. I know that African people everywhere are encouraged by this news. My fellow Africans, as we embrace this recognition, let us use it to intensify our commitment to our people, to reduce conflicts and poverty and thereby improve their quality of life. Let us embrace democratic governance, protect human rights and protect our environment. I am confident that we shall rise to the occasion. I have always believed that solutions to most of our problems must come from us. In this year's prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has placed the critical issue of environment and its linkage to democracy and peace before the world. For their visionary action, I am profoundly grateful. Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come. Our work over the past 30 years has always appreciated and engaged these linkages. My inspiration partly comes from my childhood experiences and observations of Nature in rural Kenya. It has been influenced and nurtured by the formal education I was privileged to receive in Kenya, the United States and Germany. As I was growing up, I witnessed forests being cleared and replaced by commercial plantations, which destroyed local biodiversity and the capacity of the forests to conserve water. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
In 1977, when we started the Green Belt Movement, I was partly responding to needs identified by rural women, namely lack of firewood, clean drinking water, balanced diets, shelter and income. Throughout Africa, women are the primary caretakers, holding significant responsibility for tilling the land and feeding their families. As a result, they are often the first to become aware of environmental damage as resources become scarce and incapable of sustaining their families. The women we worked with recounted that unlike in the past, they were unable to meet their basic needs. This was due to the degradation of their immediate environment as well as the introduction of commercial farming, which replaced the growing of household food crops. But international trade controlled the price of the exports from these small-scale farmers and a reasonable and just income could not be guaranteed. I came to understand that when the environment is destroyed, plundered or mismanaged, we undermine our quality of life and that of future generations. Tree planting became a natural choice to address some of the initial basic needs identified by women. Also, tree planting is simple, attainable and guarantees quick, successful results within a reasonable amount time. This sustains interest and commitment. So, together, we have planted over 30 million trees that provide fuel, food, shelter, and income to support their children's education and household needs. The activity also creates employment and improves soils and watersheds. Through their involvement, women gain some degree of power over their lives, especially their social and economic position and relevance in the family. This work continues.
Initially, the work was difficult because historically our people have been persuaded to believe that because they are poor, they lack not only capital, but also knowledge and skills to address their challenges. Instead they are conditioned to believe that solutions to their problems must come from 'outside'. Further, women did not realize that meeting their needs depended on their environment being healthy and well managed. They were also unaware that a degraded environment leads to a scramble for scarce resources and may culminate in poverty and even conflict. They were also unaware of the injustices of international economic arrangements. In order to assist communities to understand these linkages, we developed a citizen education program, during which people identify their problems, the causes and possible solutions. They then make connections between their own personal actions and the problems they witness in the environment and in society. They learn that our world is confronted with a litany of woes: corruption, violence against women and children, disruption and breakdown of families, and disintegration of cultures and communities. They also identify the abuse of drugs and chemical substances, especially among young people. There are also devastating diseases that are defying cures or occurring in epidemic proportions. Of particular concern are HIV/AIDS, malaria and diseases associated with malnutrition. On the environment front, they are exposed to many human activities that are devastating to the environment and societies. These include widespread destruction of ecosystems, especially through deforestation, climatic instability, and contamination in the soils and waters that all contribute to excruciating poverty.
In the process, the participants discover that they must be part of the solutions. They realize their hidden potential and are empowered to overcome inertia and take action. They come to recognize that they are the primary custodians and beneficiaries of the environment that sustains them. Entire communities also come to understand that while it is necessary to hold their governments accountable, it is equally important that in their own relationships with each other, they exemplify the leadership values they wish to see in their own leaders, namely justice, integrity and trust. Although initially the Green Belt Movement's tree planting activities did not address issues of democracy and peace, it soon became clear that responsible governance of the environment was impossible without democratic space. Therefore, the tree became a symbol for the democratic struggle in Kenya. Citizens were mobilised to challenge widespread abuses of power, corruption and environmental mismanagement. In Nairobi 's Uhuru Park, at Freedom Corner, and in many parts of the country, trees of peace were planted to demand the release of prisoners of conscience and a peaceful transition to democracy. Through the Green Belt Movement, thousands of ordinary citizens were mobilized and empowered to take action and effect change. They learned to overcome fear and a sense of helplessness and moved to defend democratic rights.
In time, the tree also became a symbol for peace and conflict resolution, especially during ethnic conflicts in Kenya when the Green Belt Movement used peace trees to reconcile disputing communities. During the ongoing re-writing of the Kenyan constitution, similar trees of peace were planted in many parts of the country to promote a culture of peace. Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff from the thigi tree that, when placed between two disputing sides, caused them to stop fighting and seek reconciliation. Many communities in Africa have these traditions. Such practises are part of an extensive cultural heritage, which contributes both to the conservation of habitats and to cultures of peace. With the destruction of these cultures and the introduction of new values, local biodiversity is no longer valued or protected and as a result, it is quickly degraded and disappears. For this reason, The Green Belt Movement explores the concept of cultural biodiversity, especially with respect to indigenous seeds and medicinal plants. As we progressively understood the causes of environmental degradation, we saw the need for good governance. Indeed, the state of any county's environment is a reflection of the kind of governance in place, and without good governance there can be no peace. Many countries, which have poor governance systems, are also likely to have conflicts and poor laws protecting the environment. In 2002, the courage, resilience, patience and commitment of members of the Green Belt Movement, other civil society organizations, and the Kenyan public culminated in the peaceful transition to a democratic government and laid the foundation for a more stable society. Excellencies, friends, ladies and gentlemen,
It is 30 years since we started this work. Activities that devastate the environment and societies continue unabated. Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has challenged the world to broaden the understanding of peace: there can be no peace without equitable development; and there can be no development without sustainable management of the environment in a democratic and peaceful space. This shift is an idea whose time has come. I call on leaders, especially from Africa, to expand democratic space and build fair and just societies that allow the creativity and energy of their citizens to flourish. Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership. In this regard, I would also like to appeal for the freedom of my fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi so that she can continue her work for peace and democracy for the people of Burma and the world at large.
Culture plays a central role in the political, economic and social life of communities. Indeed, culture may be the missing link in the development of Africa. Culture is dynamic and evolves over time, consciously discarding retrogressive traditions, like female genital mutilation (FGM), and embracing aspects that are good and useful. Africans, especially, should re-discover positive aspects of their culture. In accepting them, they would give themselves a sense of belonging, identity and self-confidence. Ladies and Gentlemen, There is also need to galvanize civil society and grassroots movements to catalyse change. I call upon governments to recognize the role of these social movements in building a critical mass of responsible citizens, who help maintain checks and balances in society. On their part, civil society should embrace not only their rights but also their responsibilities. Further, industry and global institutions must appreciate that ensuring economic justice, equity and ecological integrity are of greater value than profits at any cost. The extreme global inequities and prevailing consumption patterns continue at the expense of the environment and peaceful co-existence. The choice is ours. I would like to call on young people to commit themselves to activities that contribute toward achieving their long-term dreams. They have the energy and creativity to shape a sustainable future. To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future. The holistic approach to development, as exemplified by the Green Belt Movement, could be embraced and replicated in more parts of Africa and beyond. It is for this reason that I have established the Wangari Maathai Foundation to ensure the continuation and expansion of these activities. Although a lot has been achieved, much remains to be done.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, As I conclude I reflect on my childhood experience when I would visit a stream next to our home to fetch water for my mother. I would drink water straight from the stream. Playing among the arrowroot leaves I tried in vain to pick up the strands of frogs' eggs, believing they were beads. But every time I put my little fingers under them they would break. Later, I saw thousands of tadpoles: black, energetic and wriggling through the clear water against the background of the brown earth. This is the world I inherited from my parents. Today, over 50 years later, the stream has dried up, women walk long distances for water, which is not always clean, and children will never know what they have lost. The challenge is to restore the home of the tadpoles and give back to our children a world of beauty and wonder. Thank you very much.
>>72 >How can you be otherwise with Saturn where he is? サタン Satan じゃなくて土星 Saturn だべ。何か星占いっぽいことを言ってるんだ と思うけどよくわからん。 >This endeared him to their hearts immediately, for even the mildest of us loves to think that he has a forbidding exterior. こう言うと客達はたちまち彼の虜になった。というのも、どんなにおとなしい男で も自分がいかめしい容貌を持っていると思いたがっているからだ。
To all who feel represented by this prize I say use it to advance your mission and meet the high expectations the world will place on us. の”who feel represented by this prize”
>>55 下から4行目 On the environment front, they are exposed to many human activities that are devastating to the environment and societies の”On the environment front”
>>57 16行目 Indeed, the state of any county's environment is a reflection of the kind of governance in place, の”in place”
これを訳していただけないでしょうか?お願いします。 Harry did not listen to her. Blood was pounding in his ears. He jumped on the broom, kicked hard against the ground and up, up he shot after Malfoy. The air rushed through his hair ― and in a great flash of joy he realized he had found something he could do without being taught ― this was easy, this was <I>wonderful</I>. He pulled his broom up a little to take it even higher. He heard the cries of girls back on the ground and a loud shout of joy from Ron. He quickly turned his broom and faced Malfoy. Malfoy looked stunned. "Give it to me," Harry called, "or I'll push you off that broom!" "Oh, yeah?" said Malfoy, trying to smile, but looking worried. Harry knew, somehow, what to do. He pushed forward and grasped the broom tightly in both hands and with a jump it shot toward Malfoy. Malfoy only just got out of the way in time. Harry made a sudden turn and held the broom steady. A few people below were clapping. "You have no friends up here to save you," Harry called. It seemed that the same thought had just struck Malfoy. "Catch it if you can, then!" he shouted, and he threw the glass ball high into the air and shot back down toward the ground. Harry saw the ball slowly rise up in the air and then start to fall. He pushed his body forward and pointed down the broom ― next second he was speeding down, down, racing the ball ― wind in his ears, the shouts of people watching ― he shot out his hand ― a foot from the ground he caught it, just in time to pull his broom straight, and he landed softly on the grass with the Remembrall safely in his hand.
続き部分です。 "HARRY POTTER!" His heart fell. He was in big trouble. Professor McGonagall was running toward them. He got to his feet, but his legs felt weak under him. "Never ― in all my time at Hogwarts ―" Professor McGonagall could hardly speak with shock, and her glasses flashed angrily, "How dare you! ― might have broken your neck. Potter, follow me, now." Harry could see the nasty smile on Malfoy's face as he turned. He was going to have to leave the school. He just knew it.
Richard Nisbett, who made this test, is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He has given this and similar tests to Asian and European-American students at his university and at universities in China, Korea, and Japan. In all these place the results are the same. Professor Nisbett says that we can really talk about “East”and“West.” Some people, including Professor Nisbett, belive that ways of thinking in the East and the West go all the way back to ancient China and ancient Greece. In the West, people have always respected independent thought. The Greeks loved debate. Because they made their living by herding animals and fishing, the Greeks were independent. On the other hand, in China, where people have always lived in a close society, there was no real tradition of public debate.
>>94続き Chinese society was based on farming, which required close cooperation. The Japanese traditions are similar to those of China. Dr.Shirakawa Hideki, a Nobel prize winner in 2000, says,“Japanese culture is based on rise farming. It needs a lot of water, and everyone must share it equally. Planting rice also required teams of people working together at the same speed. All of this has meant that individuality was not encouraged.” Japanese children today are taught that the nail that sticks up gets beaten down. American children, on the other hand, are taught that the noisy wheel gets the oil.
Not everyone agrees with Professor Nisbett that people in the East see things differently from those in the West. Nearly everyone finds it very strange to think that two people looking at the same picture see different things. Perhaps Professor Nisbett makes a mistake in talking about “East”and“West.” When you compare China,Korea,Thailand,and Japan,you will notice many cultural differences. When you start talking about“East”and“West,”you are probably making a kind of stereotype. Even so,Professor Nisbett's theory about Eastern and Western ways of seeing things is of gregt importance for cross-cultural understanding. Mutual understanding between people with different cultural backgrounds starts with recognizing differences. If we are not aware of the possible differences,we might end up misunderstanding each other. If so,although we need to take Professor Nisbett's theory with caution,it is one step toward mutual understanding.
Mutual understanding between people with different cultural backgrounds starts with recognizing differences. If we are not aware of the possible differences,we might end up misunderstanding each other. If so,although we need to take Professor Nisbett's theory with caution,it is one step toward mutual understanding. Actually,Professor Nisbett himself says,“The more I get to know about the ways of thinking in the East,the more respect I have for them. Asians have a lot of thinking habits that we could learn. I'd like to see more things that I do.”
Everyhing at the station was very preciosu because it was difficult to bring in extra supplies. If a machine broke, someone had to repair it by any means possible. There were almost no spare parts, though. I came to have great respect for people who could fix things. One of these geniuses was Ken Lobe, who had earlier worked as a pilot in Alaska. お願いします。
There were no spare people either; everyone played a vital role. The harsh environment, the distance from the rest of the world, and the need for teamwork created a very strong sense of community spirit among the people living on the Pole. People were loved for what they gave and contributed, for their love and sacrifice. Not as in the outside world, where we are loved for how we look and other such nonsense. All that mattered here were the things that really mattered. おねがいします。
You should learn from the programme that for most functional groups there are one of more good disconnections -that is imaginary processes, the reverse of real chemical reactions, which break a bond in the target molecule to give us the structure of a new compound from which the target can be made. 有機化学の教科書の一文です。よろしくおねがいしますm(__)m
All you need to do give the impression that all is well with you.と An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. マ ジ た の む w w
Now let's take a brief look at the history of Aborigines. In 1988,Australia celebrated 200 years of settlement,but Aborigines had little to celebrate. "Discovered" around 1700,Aborigines were pushed out of their land, called "savages," and even killed. between 1910 and 1971, the government took thousands of Aboriginal children from their families and brought them up in white communities. It was hoped that they would be educated and "civilized." However, this plan ended up only destroying their traditions. The fact that they were cut off from the land meant a lot for them, because the land is where their people's spirit and soul had been grounded. Archie Roach, a popular Aboriginal musician, sings about the pain of this "Stolen Generation": The sun is round,the moon is round ---- your life journey goes round in a circle too. But, if the circle is broken,then you don't know which way to go. You're drifting in space, you're; nowhere. In recent years there has been a movement to bring Aborigines and other Australians together. Since the 1970s large areas of land have been returned to Aboriginal control. Uluru,or Ayers Rock,is an example. As more Australians come to learn and appreciate Aboriginal culture, they want to compendsate Aborigines for what happened in the past. Aboriginal art can be seen as a way to overcome pain and discrimination and express the meaning of life. It is an art of living.
CROWN2Lesson1セクション1です。 どなたかお願いします。 You are sitting in front of a television. A picture appears. It is a picture of the bottom of the sea. There are some little fish swimming around and there are shells, sand, and seaweed. Then three big fish swim by. They have bright colors and they seem to be going somewhere. You watch this picture for a short time. Later you are asked to describe what you saw. This was a psychology test. You knew it was a test, but you don't know what they are testing. What did you see ? If you are an American, you probably saw big, colored fish swimming across the screen. If you are a Japanese, you also noticed the little fish, the sand, the shells, and the seaweed. Asians who take this test are 70 percent more likely than Americans to notice the background.They make twice as many comments about the shells,sand,and seaweed. Americans are more likely to see only the big fish.
続きのセクション2です。 Richard Nisbett, who made this test, is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. He has given this and similar tests to Asian and European-American students at his university and at universities in China, Korea, and Japan. In all these places the results are the same. Professor Nisbett says that we can really talk about "East" and "West." Some people, including Professor Nisbett, believe that ways of thinking in the East and the West go all the way back to ancient China and ancient Greece. In the West, people have always respected independent thought. The Greeks loved debate. Because they made their living by herding animals and fishing, the Greeks were independent. On the other hand, in China, where people have always lived in a close society, there was no real tradition of public debate. Chinese society was based on farming, which required close cooperation. The Japanese traditions are similar to those of China. Dr. Shirakawa Hideki, a Nobel prize winner in 2000, says, "Japanese culture is based on rice farming. It needs a lot of water, and everyone must share it equally. Planting rice also required teams of people working together at the same speed. All of this has meant that individuality was not encouraged." Japanese children today are taught that the nail that sticks up gets beaten down. American children, on the other hand, are taught that the noisy wheel gets the oil.
最後のセクション3です。 Not everyone agrees with Professor Nisbett that people in the East see things differently from those in the West. Nearly everyone finds it very strange to think that two people looking at the same picture see different things. Perhaps Professor Nisbett makes a mistake in talking about "East" and "West." When you compare China, Korea, Thailand, and Japan, you will notice many cultural differences. When you start talking about "East" and "West," you are probably making a kind of stereotype. Even so, Professor Nisbett's theory about Eastern and Western ways of seeing things is of great importance for cross-cultural understanding. Mutual understanding between people with different cultural backgrounds starts with recognizing differences. If we are not aware of the possible differences, we might end up misunderstanding each other. If so, although we need to take Professor Nisbett's theory with caution, it is one step toward mutual understanding. Actually. Professor Nisbett himself says, "The more I get to know about the ways of thinking in the East, the more respect I have for them. Asians have a lot of thinking habits that we could learn, I"d like to see more things than I do."
You should learn from the programme that for most functional groups there are one of more good disconnections -that is imaginary processes, the reverse of real chemical reactions, which break a bond in the target molecule to give us the structure of a new compound from which the target “molecule” can be made. 有機化学の教科書の一文です。よろしくおねがいしますm(__)m
[1] Culture is powerful. So it should come as no surprise that the human actions, gestures, and speech patterns a person encounters in a foreign setting are subject to a wide range of interpretations, including ones that can make misunderstandings likely and cooperation impossible. But occasionally an outsider has a seemingly natural ability to interpret someone’s unfamiliar and ambiguous gestures in just the way that person’s friends would, even to mirror them. We call that cultural intelligence or CQ. In a world where crossing boundaries is routine, CQ becomes a vitally important aptitude and skill. [2] Cultural intelligence is related to emotional intelligence, but it picks up where emotional intelligence leaves off. A person with high emotional intelligence grasps what makes us human and at the same time what makes each of us different from one another. A person with high cultural intelligence can somehow identify in a person’s or group’s behavior those features that would be true of all people and all groups, and those peculiar to this person or this group. The vast realm that lies between those two poles is culture.
[3] One critical element that cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence do share is a tendency to suspend judgment―to think before acting. For someone richly endowed with CQ, the suspension might take hours or days, while someone with low CQ might have to take weeks or months. In either case, it involves using your senses to register all the ways that the personalities interacting in front of you are different from those in your home culture yet similar to one another. Only when conduct you have actually observed begins to settle into patterns can you safely begin to anticipate how these people will react in the next situation. [4] The people who are socially the most successful among their peers often have the greatest difficulty making sense of, and then being accepted by, cultural strangers. Those who fully embody the habits and norms of their native culture may be the most alien when they enter a culture not their own. Sometimes, people who are somewhat detached from their own can more easily adopt the customs and even the body language of an unfamiliar host. [5] Cultural intelligence resides in the body and the heart, as well as the head. Although most people are not equally strong in all three areas, each faculty is seriously hampered without the other two.
[6] Simply memorizing the beliefs, customs, and taboos of foreign cultures will never prepare a person for every situation that arises, nor will it prevent terrible mistakes. However, inquiring about the meaning of some custom will often prove futile because natives may be unwilling to explain themselves to strangers, or they may have little practice looking at their own culture analytically. Instead, a newcomer needs to devise what we call learning strategies. Although most people find it difficult to discover a point of entry into alien cultures, an individual with high cognitive CQ notices clues to a culture’s shared understandings. ○HThese can appear in any form and any context but somehow indicate a line of interpretation worth pursuing. [7] You will not disarm your foreign hosts, guests, or colleagues simply by showing you understand their culture; your actions and demeanor must prove that you have already to some extent entered their world. Whether it’s the way you shake hands or order a coffee, evidence of an ability to mirror the customs and gestures of the people around you will prove that you esteem them well enough to want to be like them. By adopting people’s habits and mannerisms, you eventually come to understand in the most elemental way what it is like to be them. They, in turn, become more trusting and open. [8] Adapting to a new culture involves overcoming obstacles and setbacks. People can do that only if they believe in their own ability. If they persevered in the face of challenging situations in the past, their confidence would grow. A person who doesn’t believe herself capable of understanding people from unfamiliar cultures will often give up after her efforts meet with hostility or incomprehension. By contrast, a person with high motivation will, upon confronting obstacles, setbacks, or even failure, reengage with greater vigor.
Redglare: One person who is working to remove landmines is Sakamoto Ryuichi. He made a CD called Zero Landmine. (Turning to Sakamoto) When did you become interested in the landmine problem, Ryuichi? Sakamoto: Like everyone else, I had heard of the problem, but what really got me thinking about it was a TV program about Chris Moon. Having lost both his arm and his leg to a landmine in Africa, he had every reason to get discouraged, but he never gave up. He got an artificial arm and leg, and began to walk, finally to run. In the end, he was able to run a full marathon. Most surprising of all, Chris was chosen to be the torchbearer for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games. Moon: Landmines are evil. They lie active in the ground for years after the fighting has stopped, and they cannot tell the difference between the step of a soldier and that of a child. Many of those injured by mines die slow deaths. Those who survive often live lives of misery, poverty, and discrimination. お願いします。
すいません、ZOSHINDOのMAIN STREAMのLESSON6 what is color?の本文なんですけど、和訳お願いします。 LIGHT&RAINBOWS To see color,we first must have light.White light contains all the colors of the rainbow. After it rains,sometimes we can see rainbows in the sky,because the sun's rays pass through raindrops. We will see the rays go through the raindrops.Each raindrop is a prism which splits the sun's rays into a rainbow. When a ray of light goes through a prism,it bends the light ray.Blue light is bent more but red light is bent less. In this way,the prism splits the ray of light and spreads out the colors.This spreading creates a rainbow.The rang of color is called a spectrum. 以上です。よろしくお願いします。
At 9 p.m. Mike Masterman, Winter Site Manager, called for the people to light the fires. We saw the plane before we heard it. The huge plane, which was the size of half a football field, came in, dropped six parcels in all, and flew back to New Zealand. The airdrop was a great success. The flight crew were safe and none of us were hurt. Using the newly delivered medicine, I began chemotherapy treatment in my small clinic. Mike and other members of the station helped me greatly. At first, the treatment was very successful, but because of the side effects of the drugs, my hair began to fall out. I was so sad, but other women members encouraged me and I was able to move on again. Eventually the cancer became resistant to the drugs, and the tumor started to grow again. Although the Antarctic winter wasn't yet over, we decided to ask for a rescue. It was thought that there was little time left for me. Landing a plane in such low temperatures was very dangerous. The whole of America was concerned for me, and everyone was closely watching the TV reports. I did hate myself for making news, though. おねがいします。
We are realy able to see those who are very close to us as they realy are because of our readiness to accept their faults and accentuate their virtues. The same is equally true when we come to look at ourselves. It is very difficult for anybody to be objective about his own character. And every country tends to accept its own way of lifeas being the normal one and to praise or criticize others as they are similar to or differ from it.
1.Japanese children, when they cannot finish their food, are often told to think about how bad the farmer who raised the food for them will feel if they don't eat it.
2.That our business, whatever kind it may be, must be done promptly is a universally acknowledged principal, though sadly it is not universally practiced.
3.It is a curious fact that although thousands of books and articles dealing with human emotions have appeared in the twentieth century, the great majority of them have been concerned with such things as fear and anxiety.
“Wish Hattie had been a boy,”her father said,whenever his middle daughter did or said something that showed how quick and intelligent she was. Putting wood in the woodshed,arguing about questions of the day at the dinner table,writing prize winning compositions in school--young Harriet Beecher could often do better than her brothers and sisters,though they were all quick and bright. So when Lyman Beecher said,“Wish Hattie had been a boy,”Harriet was not hurt. She knew her father loved her and was proud of her. He wished she was a boy so that she could grow up to be a preacher,like he was. Lyman Beecher was sure that preachers were the only people with real power and influence. But what kind of power did women have? If a woman was married,she might have a little influence on her husband and children. But if she did not get married--then what? Well,she could teach in a school for girls. Schools for girls were something new. Harriet's older sister,Catherine,had started such a school in Hartford,Connecticut. By the time Harriet was fifteen, she was not only studying at Catherine's school, She was teaching ome classes as well.
When Lyman Beecher decided to move west to Cincinnati,Ohio,to preach and teach, Catherine went along to start a girls'school there. And of course Harriet went along too. Cincinnati was across the river from Kentucky,a southern state where slavery was the law. The Beechers had always been against slavery,but now Harriet saw for herself what a terrible thing slavery was. She khew that her father could preach against it. So could her brothers,who had become preaches. They could vote in elections also, trying to choose men to make new laws. But what could she do? Nothing. The years went by. She married a professor named Calvin stowe. The babies began to arrive. She was busy from morning till night,keeping house and tending the children. But Calvin Stowe earned very little,so Harriet began to write stories for women's magazines. she was happy when she sold one for even a few dollars.
And { 1 } ,our picture of the people and the way of life of other countries is often a distorted one. Here is a great argument { 2 } foreign travel and learning foreign languages.It is only by travelling in, or living in, a country and getting to know its inhabitants and their language, that one can find out what a country and its people are really like.And how different the knowledge one gains this way frequently turns out to be from the { 3 } information gathered from other sources. Differencws between { 4 } do, of course, exist and,one hopes, will always continue to do so.But at least the opportunities for travel today have revealed to more people than ever before that the Englishman or Frenchman or German or American is not some different kind of animal from themselves.
ZOSHINDO MAINSTREAM U の Lesson1 NO One's Perfect by Hirotada Ototake なんですが、どなたか訳してくださる方いませんか? 1-1 On April 6,1976,cherry trees were in full blossom, under soft sunlight. On this gentle day a bouncing baby boy came into the world. It was as ordinary birth to an ordinary couple. Except for one thing : the boy had no arms or legs. Although the cause in my case is still unknown, I arrived with an ultra-individual appearance. How many people create a shocked reaction just by being born? Probably only Momotaro, the fairy-tale boy who was found inside a peach and me. A birth is supposed to be followed by the joyful moment when mother first sees her child. But my father thought over what would happen when my mother saw me. He said to her, "I'm afraid you can't see the baby right away ---he's a little weak."
1-2 (204 続きです) Two or three days passed. My father made up his mind to keep the facts hidden until my mother was fully recovered. It must have been a lonely struggle. It took strength. " They say you can't see him for a little while longer because he has severe jaundice," he told her. My mother didn't wonder what was going on at first, but naturally she became worried after a week. She realized something serious must have happened, but at the same time it was hard for her to ask anything. Of course she wanted to see her son, but she sensed "something." She put her trust in my father.
1-2 (205 まだ続きがありました。すみません、お願いします。) The day of our first meeting arrived at last. Three weeks had gone by since my birth. On the day before she came to see me, my father told her the reason why she hadn't been allowed to see her son. However, he couldn't bring himself to tell her the exact nature of the disability. What he did tell her was enough for my mother and she prepared herself. The hospital prepared an empty bed in case she fainted on the spot. The tension grew, for my father and the staff, and for my mother.
208 209 の方 どうもありがとうございました。すみません次のもお願いできますか? 1-3 The big moment arrived, but not in the way people had expected. The words that burst from my mother's lips were " He's adorable." All the fears about hysteria or fainting turned out to be unnecessary. For nearly a month she hadn't been able to see her own baby. Finally the joy of seeing her child at last was greater than the shock of his missing arms and legs. I think the success of this first encounter was especially meaningful. First impressions tend to stick. Sometimes you're still carrying them as baggage years later. And when it's a parent and child---that meeting is a profoundly important one. The first emotion my mother felt toward me was not shock or sadness. It was joy. At the age of three weeks, I was born at last.
No one’s perfect「完全な人なんていない」(原題『五体不満足』) *in full blossom *be supposed to *think over *right away *make up one’s mind *at the same time *put one’s trust *at last *bring oneself to *prepare oneself for *in case *on the spot *turn out to be *tend to *at the age of
MAIN STREAM U Lesson 2 Take It Easy! の和訳をどなたかお願いします。 2-1 In the modern world it's hard t avoid stress. Wherever you live, there are things that may cause you stress. But when you live in a city, there are more stressful surroundings: crowds, pollution, noise,crime and traffic jams. All of that can make it hard to relax. You can't get rid of the crowds, but you can reduce the stress in your life.
2-2 Too much stress is actually dangerous to your health. Many serious medical conditions are caused by too much of it. That's why it's very important to do something about the stress in your life. People who live in cities build up a lot of stress. They are always busy and build up tension without knowing it. Stress shows up in the body as 'muscular tension'. It usually targets the upper back, shoulders and lower back. This can lead to severe health problems. When a person is in a stressful situation, the body releases certain hormones. These harmones slow the digestion and increase the heartbeat,respiration and perspiration. When the tense situation is over, the body fixes the damage that was done. If the stress continues, the body can't fix the problems, and the problems get worse.
MAIN STREAM U Lesson 2 続きです。よろしくお願いします。 2-3 A few simple stress-relieving stretches are recommended. Breathe deeply to get the full relaxation benefits from neck stretch and lower stretch. It sounds simple, but it's something many people forget. The body relaxes when you breathe out.
Neck Stretch: Lock fingers behind your head. Your neck should be in a relaxed forward position. The weight of your arms and hands increases the stretch. Do not pull.
Lower Back Stretch: Head down. Arch back up. Change to sitting on heel position. Return to starting position. Change back to sitting on right heel. Bring arms toward left. Repeat changing to left heel, arms to right.
2-4 Exercise is another good way to reduce stress. One of the great things about weight training is that you can take your anger and tension out on the weights, instead of on the people around you. Exercise releases physical stress in the muscles and makes you stronger. And a healthy body gives you more protection from serious stress problems.
The most important thing you can do is to recognize stress and to reduce it. If you suddenly find yourself in a tense situation, stop for a minute, close your eyes, breathe and do a few simple stretches. If you realize stress has become a constant part of your life, do something about it.
*216の Lower Back Stretch: Head down. Arch back up. Change to sitting on heel position. Return to starting position. Change back to sitting on right heel. Bring arms toward left. Repeat changing to left heel, arms to right のheel positionがよくわかリません。 だれか分かる人いたら分かりやすい訳お願いします
Do you know that all human beings have a "comfort zone" regulating the distance they stand from someone when they talk? This distance varies in interesting ways among people of different cultures and is nearly always unconscious.
Greeks, Arabs, and South Americans usually stand quite close together when they talk, often moving their faces even closer as they warm up in a conversation. By and large, North Americans find this awkward and often back away a few inches. Studies have found that tend to feel most comfortable at about 21 inches apart. In much of Asia and Africa there is even more space between two people in conversation.
This difference applies also to the closeness with which people sit together, the extent to which they lean toward one another in conversation, and how they move as they argue or make an emphatic point.
Although large numbers of North Americans prefer a relatively wide "comfort zone" when talking, they do communicate a great deal with their hands━━━not only with gestures but also, surprisingly enouth, with touch. They can be observed putting a sympathetic hand on a person's shoulder to demonstrate warmth of feeling or an arm around them in sympathy, nudging a man in the ribs to emphasize a funny story, patting an arm in reassurance or stroking a child's head in affection; they readily take someone's arm to help them across a street or direct them along an unfamiliar route. To many people━━━especially those from Asia━━━such body contact is unwelcome. Southern Europeans and Latins, on the other hand, are inclined to view North Americans as cold fish because they gesture and touch so little.
The pure virus could be kept in a bottle, just like hundreds of other chemicals. Yet,when this particular chemical is placed on a living things, it comes to life. As long as it is on a living material, it grows.
What are your goals and how are you working toward reaching them?
Our main goal is to help the people find a way to support themselves. We don't give them things from Japan. It's important to use things they can get there. In fact, most things they need can be found in Mali. You'll understand our idea even more if you see how we teach reading and writing. The best student in one class, for example, becomes a teacher for the next class. That is better because a native person can understand the difficulties that others may have in learning.
Has the reading program been successful?
Yes, I believe so. We had a bulletin board set up in the center of the village. People are really delighted when they find they can read the board. It gives them a lot of useful information to make their lives better. In the rainy season, for instance, we warn the villagers about the danger of malaria. The board helps everyone realize the importance of reading and writing.
Yes, I myself caught malaria. It was the first rainy eason after I arrived in Mali. A young man I knew took me to the hospital 27 km away on his moped. A cold, strong wind was blowing. He was quite worried about my health because I had a high fever and was very weak. Later I found out that he himself had malaria at that time!
That's a very touching story.
Yes, I'll never forget his kindness. And I learned an important lesson ---- as human beings, we are all the same. We all have similar feelings. I found myself encouraged by this experience. After that, I really wanted to continue my work in Mali.
What other activities do you organize these days?
After some time, I realized the importance of entertainment as well. We now organize soccer games for the children. Soccer is very popular in Mali. I love to see the happy faces of the children arriving at the soccer field. Some of them come in carts pulled by donkeys. After the game, eating rice together is also a big treat for them because they rarely get to eat rice.
The most difficult thing for me was to adjust my standards to their standards. Take sewing, for instance. I usually measure every part of a dress ---- such as the sleeve length ---- for a perfect fit, but most women in Mali don't care if the sleeves fit perfectly or not.
Could you tell us something you've learned through your activities in Mali?
I've learned to interact with everyone in an honest manner. When I have to scold someone, I often shout at them, but on sad occasions, I cry with them, and on happy occasions, I share great joy with them.
You've had a lot of unique experiences. Would you like to say something to Japanese high school students?
Please don't believe you live in the center of the world. Learn a lot about different countries. Then, you'll be able to understand Japan and other countries much better. Lastly, I would like to say it's important that you always have a dream to follow.
2.3年前、私自身がごたごたに巻き込まれました。ドイツから来た客(取引先)と最後の 会合の時でした。客のハンスが「10%の割引をして欲しい。これは高すぎる。」と言いまし た。私の上司は「ソレハムズカシイデスネ!」と答えました。私は「It is difficult」と訳し ました。ハンスは全然怒ったようには見えませんでした。実際、かれは喜んだように見え ました。会合の後、彼はドイツへと戻らなければなりませんでした。彼はファックスで連 絡を取ることに同意したので、私達は握手をしそして彼は去りました。 会合の2週間後、私達はハンスからファックスを受け取りました。彼は彼が頼んでいた10% の割引のことについて聞きました。私の上司はまた「チョットムズカシイ。」と言いました。 再び私は「It’s a little difficult」と訳しました。翌週、もう一度ファックスが来ました。「私 が要求した10%の話はどうなったのですか?」このとき私の上司は「カンガエテオキマス。 シカシムズカシイデスネ!」と言いました。私は「I will think about it, but it is difficult」 と訳しました。私は自分の訳に本当に誇りを持っていました。訳はそれほど完璧でした。 それほど正確でした。事実、私は翻訳者になることを考えていたのです。…
英訳 『Therefore, our opinion is an opinion of The our high school. Our high school answers contents of the business and a question about the results at any time. However, because this mail interview is a question that relates to a personal sense of the value such as likes and dislikes of the student, we are not answered. We appreciate your understanding of our situation.』
“Therefore, our opinion is the opinion of our high school. Our high school answers the questions about the business contents and the results at any time. However, we don’t make an answer to this mail interview because it seems to be the question relating to one’s sense of value such as each student’s likes and dislikes. We appreciate your understanding of our position.” *他にレス無いので>268をもとにやってみましたが、 重要な話であるなら迅速・正確な和英専用スレへ念のためどうぞ。 この英文をそっちのスレに出してもらっても構いません。 http://academy4.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1144259656/l50
Many animals find safety in blending in with their environment. In birds, for example, it is quite common for adult males to be brightly colored and easy to notice, while adult females and young birds are light brown or sand colored in order to blend into their background and escape the sharp eyes of an enemy. Many mammals have also come to be the same color as their surroundings over the years. A zabra is almost impossible to see among the braches and stripes of sunlight in its native Africa, and a lion is very hard to see when it is sleeping on the brown sand of the plains. Most fish are darker on top than on the bottom; from above, they look like the land under the water, and from below, they look loke the water's surface. The safety that these animals' colors provide has helped them survive over the ages.
Email has several important advantages over phones and regular mail. The main advantage of email is that it takes very little time to send and receive messages. From your computer, you can contact someone far away or in the next office. Seconds later, they have your message. If they are at their computer, you can get an answer right away, too. Another reason people like to use email is that for just a few cents you can send a message to someone in another part of the world. You don't have to worry about the time difference or slw mail delivery. Your message is sent quickly, and your friends or people in your office can send an answer when they have time. Lastly, email allows you to send a single message to many people at the same time.
THE SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY was set forth by Einstein in his 190 5 paper"On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." The tarm "special relativity"is used to distinguish the thery from Einstein's theory of gravity,knowm as gemeral relativity,which he completed ten years later. Except for a glimpse into general relativity in chapter 12,we shall be concerned entirely with special relativituy,so fron now on I will drop the "special,"with the understanding that "relativity"always refers to to special relativity
can you see a man in the river ? what dou you think he is doing? this man, who looks like he is asking for help, is in fact, "swimming against the tide." "To swun agaubst the tide" means to go against popular opinion or standards, and it was considered a form of stubbornness in Brugel`s time.
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There is a man at the brick wall. What is he doing? He is "banging his head against a wall" means to work hard or struggle without getting any results. In short, it means to waste one`s time.
Can you see a man on the bank of the river on the upper right side of he painting? He is wasting not his time but his money, because he is throwing it into the river. One English phrase speaks of throwing money "down the drain" and, as you know, there is a similar expression in Japanese.
プログレスBOOK6のIN BALANCE WITH THE EARTHというところです。長いですがどなたか和訳をお願いします。
That we should live in balance with earth is not a new idea.
Our atemmpt to live in harmony with nature is a rebirth of an old idea, a finding again of something we almost lost.
The direction we have taken since the first great civilizations appeared on earth has been based largely upon self-interest.
The way that nature has followed has been based upon the principles of survival.
These principles we also must follow, or we shall go down the short road to self-destruction and take with us what other forms of life fall within our grasp.
We must understand that we are not beings apart.
Like all other forms of life, we are made of earth, air, and water; we were built and kept alive by the sun and the green leaf.
We are part of the web of life and must respect the wisdom of its laws.
We can no longer afford to take from the earth more than we return in usable form.
クラウンR. L1 同じことの別な言い方 言語は語彙と文法の点でだけでなく、またネイティブスピーカーが重要だと考える情報の 種類という点でも異なっています。ジョン・ハインズによると、英語の話し手と日本語の 話し手は、聞き手が確実に意味を十分理解するようにするためには何が含まれなければな らないのかに関して異なった考えを持っています。 最近、私は日本人の友人とロサンゼルス発東京行きの便(飛行機)に乗りました。客室乗 務員が私達1人1人に質問する時どれほど容易に日本語と英語を使い分けるかを見るのは 興味深いことでした。彼女は友人に「お茶はいかがですか?」と言い、それから私には 「Would you like some tea?」と言いました。 私達がまだ飛んでいる間、客室乗務員は私達が記入すべき用紙を配りました。東京に近づ いた時、彼女は私達がもうその用紙に記入したかどうか見にやってきました。彼女は私に 「Have you filled out the form yet?(あなたはもう用紙に記入しましたか)」と言いました。 彼女は友人に「よろしいですか?」と言いました。 これらの表現の違いは多くの点で面白いのですが、もっとも明らかなことは、日本語の表 現は仮に言うとしてもそれほど明白には言わないことです。けれども実際に伝えられる意 味の点から見ると、日本語の表現は英語の表現と同じ位表現に富んでいます。 よく似た例が思い浮かびます。もしあなたがアメリカ合衆国で晩餐会に出席するなら、食 べ終えた後に招待主に礼を言う必要があります。もし8人の招待客がいるとしたら、彼ら はそれぞれ何か次のようなことを言うかもしれません。…
In other parts of the painting, we see some proverbs using fish and animals. On the right side of the river, a man is trying to catch an eel. The proverb for him is "An eel caught by the tail is only half caught." If you have caught only the tail of an eel, you must not think your job is done because the eel may get away at any moment.
Now look at the man who is under the roof on the left side of the painting. He is counting chickens, though it may be difficult to see. The full phrase is "Don`t count your chickens before they are hatched." In Japan we say some thing similar about uncaught raccoon dogs. You know how it goes.
So we see that there are some proverbs that we can easily understand even today. It seems that many aspects of human nature depicted in Bruegel`s painting have changed very little. Does this surprise you, or not?
PROGRESS IN ENGLISH BOOK5のTHE COWARDという話です。和訳お願いいたします。
“You are a pigeon, Ivan. Rather than cross the cemetery, you'll walk all around it even in this cold. Coward as you are, you dare not cross it.”
Ivan murmured, “The cewetery is nothing to cross, lieutenant.
It is nothing but earth, like all the other earth.”
Then it was that the lieutenant cried, “A challenge, then! Cross the cemetery tonight, Ivan, and I'll give you five rubles ─five gold rubles!”
Had he not been drinking vodka, or had he not been in need of money just at that time, Ivan would probably have resisted the temptation.
The reason why no one ever knew, but Ivan, moistening his lips, said suddenly, “Yes, lieutenant, I'll cross the cemetery. I accept your challenge, and I'll win your five rubles!”
The saloon echoed with their disbelief.
The lieutenant winked at the other customers and drew hir saber.
The lieutenant winked at the other customers and drew his saber.
“Here is my saber, Ivan,” he said.
“When you get to the center of the cemetery, in front of the biggest tomb, stick the saber into the ground.
In the morning we shall go there. And should the saber be in the ground ─five rubles to you!”
Ivan took saber. The men drank a toast. “To Ivan the Terrible!” Then they roared with laughter.
The wind howled around Ivan as he closed the door of the saloon behind him. The cold was knife-sharp. The fine snow, driven by the wind, cut his cheeks. He buttoned his long coat and crossed the dirt road.
He could hear the lieutenant's voice, louder than the rest, yelling after him, “Five rubles, Pigeon! If you live!”
Ivan pushed the cemetery gate open. He walked fast. “Earth, more earth…like any other earth.”
But the darkness was a massive dread. “Five gold rubles…” The wind was cruel, and the saber was like ice in his hands. Ivan shivered under the long, thick coat and broke into a run.
He must have sobbed ─but the sound was drowned in the wind. And he knelt down, cold and terrified, and drove the saber into the hard ground. Kneeling there, he beat it with his fist, down to the very hilt. It was done.
The cemetery…challenge…five gold rubles.
Ivan started to rise from his knees. But he could not move. Something held him. Something gripped him in a firm unyielding hold. Ivan gasped in his panic, shaken by a monstrous fear.
In vain did he tug and strain and pull. Something was holding him in an iron grip. He cried out in terror ─then senseless noises poured from his throat.
The next morning they found Ivan ─on the ground in front of the central tomb.
His face was not that of a man who had frozen to death, but that of one killed by some pounded it ─through the dragging folds of his long coat.
CROWN English Series T のlesson 2 です。和訳よろしくお願いします。 とりあえず一部分書きます。 I went to America for the first time when I was sixteen. Nowadays many young people go abroad; things have changed a lot of since I was a boy. To me, America was a strange, far-away land. However, I had a dream to cross the ocean by ship and to hitchhike across America. In high school, I got part-time jobs to save money. My father became interested in my plan and gave me money for the trip. It was a difficult decision for my father. For one thing, he was an office worker and it was a large amount of money for him. For another, people would tell him not to allow his son to go on such an adventure. Foreign lands were so far away for us in those days; how could a boy ever hope to make it home safely? I left Yokohama in the summer of 1968. The ocean was so blue and so large. At night the stars looked very close. I felt both the shortness of human life and the vastness of human imagination. Two weeks later, I saw the city of Los Angeles on the horizon. I arrived in America with nothing but a backpack. It was filled with my few things a tent, a sleeping bag, a small cooking stove, and maps. The port was a long way from the city. It was dark, and I had no place tob stay for the night. I had no plan; deciding which way to go was like throwing dice. I knew no one in Los Angeles. No one in the world even knew where I was, but I felt no fear at all. I just wanted to shout for joy at my new freedom. A few days later I arrived at the Grand Canyon. I was amazed at the vastness of nature. For the first time, I slept in a small tent in the wildness. That experience gave me an idea and, several years later, it led me to Alaska.
322の続きです。よろしくお願いします。 I traveled by Greyhound bus to the South. Atlanta, Nashville, and New Orleans impressed me deeply. There was a certain smell around every bus station: a smell of restrooms, shoe polish, hot dogs, and hamburgers. I am always filled with picked up by a family and traveled with them for ten long days. I felt that I was part of that family. Years later, the mother told me, "When we first saw you on the road, we drove right on by. But the kids told us to go back and pick you up." With the help of many people, I completed my journey safely two months later when I arrived in San Francisco. I treated myself to a cola and a great big hamburger. I was more confident in myself than ever before. When you travel alone, you have thrilling experiences and chances to meet all kinds of people. Deciding on each day's plan that very day is like living in a story without any plot. If you miss your bus and take another, your life will take a different turn. I have learned from this journey that chance encounters with people are an important part of life. When I returned home, I found myself in the same old life as a student in a Japanese high scool. However, my experience of traveling abroad gave me a sense of freedom. Now I knew that there was a world beyond my day-to-day life in Japan. There were real people in those far lands, and they were living ordinary lives, just like mine. I learned to see my own country in a new light. Today as I walk alone through the wildness of Alaska, I often remember my first journey to foreign lands.
彼がウォッカを飲んでいなかったなら、あるいはちょうどその時金に困っていなかったなら、 イワンはおそらくこの(5ルーブルの)誘惑を我慢していただろう。 The reason why no one ever knew,しかしイワンは、彼の唇を湿らせ、 いきなりこう言った「わかりました、中尉、墓地を通り抜けて見せましょう。 あなたの挑戦を受けます、そして5ルーブルを勝ち取ってやります」 サロンは彼らの疑い(の声?)で満たされた。 中尉は他の客に目配せした。そして彼の剣を抜いた。
A Ken: That sounds interesting. I like puzzles. おもしろそうですね。パズルは好きですよ。 Dr. Adams: OK. Here's the puzzle. よろしい。これがそのパズルだ。 The question is whether you can draw no more than four straight lines 問題は、鉛筆を紙から上げないで4本以下の直線を which will cross through all nine dots without lifting your pencil from the paper. 9個すべての点を通るように書けるかどうか、だ。 Ken: Hmm. Let me see. You said four straight lines, without lifting the pencil -that's impossible! うーん。ええっと、鉛筆を上げないで4本の線と言いましたよね。無理ですよ! Dr. Adams: It only appears to be impossible. 不可能のように見えるだけだよ。
Let me give you some advice. Don't add any new requirements. いくつかアドバイスをしよう。新しく必要なものはない。 Most people add needless requirements. They have a mental block. たいていの人は不必要な要求を加えてしまう。彼らはメンタルブロックを持っている。 They think they have to stay inside the square box. 正方形の箱の中にいないといけないと思っているのだ。 Being creative means learning to think outside the box. 創造的であることは箱の外での考えかたを学ぶことなのだ。 Ken: Hey, I've got it! (cf. solution 1) あっ、わかりました! Dr. Adams: Good for you. よくやった。 Ken: It just occurred to me that there's another solution. How about this one? (cf. solution 2) 他の解決法があるのだとようやくわかりました。これはどうですか?
Dr. Adams: Wonderful! There are actually several possible solutions to this puzzle. すばらしい!実際はいくつかこのパズルの解決法があるのだ。 Here is one which allows all nine dots to be crossed with just one line -with a little paper folding. 紙を少し折り曲げて、9個すべての点を1本だけの線で交わらせられる方法だ。 ここしか残ってなかった
Ken: Dr. Adams, thank you very much for taking time for this interview. You have written a number of books on how to be creative. What exactly do you mean by being "creative"? Dr. Adams: By "creative" I simply mean being able to come up with new solutions to problems for which there are no simple solutions. Being creative means finding new ways to look at the world. Ken: I wonder why so many people these days are interested in being creative. Dr. Adams: Probably one of the most important reasons is that we're living in a complex age where we have to deal with problems which we have never faced before. Ken: Is it possible, Dr. Adams, to train yourself to be more creative? Is creativity something that you can learn or something that you're born with? Dr. Adams: I believe that you can train yourself to be more creative. Being creative requires new ways of thinking, or the ability to look at a problem in a new way. In order to do that, you have to realize that we have what I call "mental blocks" which prevent us from thinking freely. Let me give you an interesting puzzle, so you will have a better idea about what I mean by "mental blocks."
Ken: That sounds interesting. I like puzzles. Dr. Adams: OK. Here's the puzzle. The question is whether you can draw no more than four straight lines which will cross through all nine dots without lifting your pencil from the paper.
Ken: Hmm. Let me see. You said four straight lines, without lifting the pencil -that's impossible! Dr. Adams: It only appears to be impossible. Let me give you some advice. Don't add any new requirements. Most people add needless requirements. They have a mental block. They think they have to stay inside the square box. Being creative means learning to think outside the box. Ken: Hey, I've got it! (cf. solution 1) Dr. Adams: Good for you. Ken: It just occurred to me that there's another solution. How about this one? (cf. solution 2) Dr. Adams: Wonderful! There are actually several possible solutions to this puzzle. Here is one which allows all nine dots to be crossed with just one line -with a little paper folding.
Dr. Adams: And here is a solution which requires cutting the puzzle into pieces and putting it together in a different way, and again using only one line. Ken: It's amazing how people can come up with such an idea. Dr. Adams: Another person came up with this solution: put the paper on the surface on the Earth. Go around the Earth, moving a little each time so as to pass through the next row on earth circle. Ken: Really ingenious! Dr. Adams: This is creativity: learning to avoid needless requirements, thinking outside the box. Here is my favorite solution. It's from an elementary school girl. Dear Dr. Adams, My dad and I were doing dot puzzles from your book. My dad said a man found a way to do it with one line. I tried and I did it too. Not by folding, but I used one fat line. It doesn't say you can't use a fat line. Like this.
Ken: Let's go back to the point at which we started our interview. What does all this suggest about creativity? Dr. Adams: In order to be creative, it is important to avoid mental blocks, to learn to think outside the box. The more broadly the problem can be started, the more room you have for a creative solution. Ken: Could you give me an example? Dr. Adams: Suppose that you are asked to make a better door. What kind of door do you think of? Most likely, you will think of a rectangular piece of wood. That's what a door is in your mental box. Instead of thinking of a door, think of finding a better way to walk through a wall. With this new problem statement, you can come up with different solutions: Curtains, elastic diaphragms, mechanical shutters, or even an air curtain like those used to keep heat in stores or out of freezers. Ken: So you're saying a problem statement which is too narrow limits creativity? Dr. Adams: Exactly. A better solution might come from removing needless requirements. The question is whether you can think outside the box or not. Ken: Thank you, Dr. Adams. Talking with you about creativity has been most interesting. 本文だけ拾ってきたが訳す気力が残ってない
Something gripped him in a firm unyielding hold. Ivan gasped in his panic, shaken by a monstrous fear.
In vain did he tug and strain and pull. Something was holding him in an iron grip. He cried out in terror ─then senseless noises poured from his throat.
The next morning they found Ivan ─on the ground in front of the central tomb.
His face was not that of a man who had frozen to death, but that of one killed by some pounded it ─through the dragging folds of his long coat.
俳句好きじゃないの?それは残念だね I'm getting more interested in it. Actully, I'm reading a lot about language these bays.One of the books say that the Inuit people have more than ten wrods for `snow'! So speakers of different languages look at the world in different ways.It's amazing, isn't it?
たびたび申し訳ございません。又お願いします。2,3回に分けて書きます。 Aloha, everyone! As you know, I am from Hawaii. If you have been there, maybe you noticed that there are many different kinds of people in Hawaii. Some people call our islands "the melting pot of" the Pacific." The first people came to Hawaii over 1,000 years ago from other Polynesian islands. Their descendants, like myself, are called "Hawaiians," but we are a minority. There are also many people from different parts of the world: Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Europe, and other American states. Though there are many different races and nationalities, we seem to be getting along very well. There are lots of different languages too. Of course English is our main language, but did you know that Hawaiian is also an official language? I'd like to tell you a little about it. Have you heard people speak Hawaiian before? You all know that aloha means "hello," but it also means "welcome" and "love." Do you know how to say "Thank you" in Hawaiian? We say "Mahalo!" Hawaiian is a very musical language. We have only forty syllables in our language, and the sound is very soft. In the old times, we had no writing system, so our history and our stories were passed on from parents to children by mouth. In the nineteenth century Europeans and Americans came to our islands and set our language into the Roman alphabet. By the late nineteenth century, more than ninety percent of the population could read and write Hawaiian. In 1896, however, English was declared the official language, and Hawaiian was no longer taught in schools. By 1902 they had closed all the Hawaiian language schools. It seemed that the Hawaiian language would die out.
Then in the early 1970s, we began a movement to revive our native Hawaiian culture and language. As part of the movement to revive the Hawaiian language, a nursery school called Punara Leo was set up in 1984. The word "puna"ra means "nest" and "leo" means "voice" or "language." This school is for children from the age of two to five. Just as little birds in their nests learn from their mothers, children are taught to use Hawaiian all day long. I also went to Punara Leo, and then, when it was time to enter public school, I went to Kaiapuni. All subjects there are taught in Hawaiian. I started to study English as a second language in the fifth grade, so now I can speak both Hawaiian and English. その2です。
The number of young people who can speak Hawaiian is increasing rapidly, and more and more families speak Hawaiian at home. Less than a generation ago, no one thought that would be possible. You may wonder why Hawaiians are so eager to maintain their native language. I think the answer is that language is more than just a means of exchanging information. We see the world around us through the window of our language. It enables us to share the history and culture of our people, and so it helps us find our identity. If we lose our language, we lose something of ourselves. Imagine that English ha taken the place of the Japanese language here n Japan. What happens to your culture and identity? English is useful for communication in many parts of the world, but your mother tongue is an important part of your identity. In Japan, too, there is a minority language, just as in Hawaii. The Ainu people have lost much of their language and culture. Today, they are trying to revive their traditions. In this class we are going to study English of course, but I want you to remember that your mother tongue is the most important language in the world. これで全部です。 よろしくお願いします。
よろしくお願いします。何度もすみません。 Humans first appeared on earth four million years ago. Since then, we have invented lots of things. As a result, our lives have become much easier and happier. Some inventions are simple,like cups and pencils. Others are not that simple, like telephones and radios. And still others are very complex and beyond the imagination of people who lived a hundred years ago : computer games, car navigation systems, digital cameras. These inventions have become part of our daily life, and we do not usually think about them. Recently, however, a New York writer did think about inventions.He invited over one hundred well-known people to answer the question : "What is the most important inventions of the past?" Some of their answers may surprise you. The most popular choice was the printing press which was invented by Gutenberg in the fifteen century. It has enabled us to spread knowledge and information all over the world. Today we can hardly think of life without books, newspapers, and magazines. Other popular choices were the computer and the Internet. Thanks to these inventions, we can communicate with people all over the world quickly and easily. The computer and the Internet cannot work without language, and this was another popular choice. Several people chose progress in medicine. The sick can receive medical care in hospitals, and operations when needed. We now enjoy longer lives than before. Some people were more interested in ideas than in thing; they chose democracy, educations, and human rights. How can we think of today`s world without them?
You may wonder if all of these inventions have improved our lives. Actually, progress in technology can have bad effects. For examples, we have to destroy forests in order to produce the paper for the printing press. The computer and the Intenet have brought us into the Information Age. However, now our privacy may be in danger because other people have easy access to information about us. Progress in medicine has enabled us to live longer, but it is not without its dangers. Accidents in hospitals are reported almost every week. Not everyone in the world can enjoy the good effects of inventions. Good hospital care and easy access to the Internet are enjoyed in the developed world, while many of the developing countries are falling futher behind. We cannot think only about the wonders of technology. What is important is to keep their danger under control, and to find ways to share these wonders with all the people of our world. Some of the things and ideas selected as the greatest invention were very interesting. Here are some examples. One person chose the easer because it allows us to correct our mistakes. A science writer chose the mirror because we can see ourselves in it as others see us. In this way, it encourages self-awareness. A psychologist chose reading glasses because they allow people to read into old age have prevented the world from being ruled by people under forty. What is interesting about these choices is that they require imagination and a sence of humor. After all, we humans need a sence of humor, don`t we? I don`t know who invented it, but how does anyone get through life without it? This is Richard Freedman from New York.
Atlantic history −from the first encounters of europeans with the Westren Hemisphere through the Revolutionary era −is a subject that certains historians have found strange, that others have said does not exist and if it does exist it shouldn't, that at best has no easy or clear definition, and that yet in recent years has emerged in college and university teaching programs across the United States and is taught elsewhere as well − in Galway,Ireland; in Dundee,Scotland; in Liverpool,Sydney,Vienna,and Hamburg.
>>367-368有難うございました。 これもお願いします。ごめんなさい。 Today I would like to talk about my trip to Yonaguni Island. Do you know where this island is? As you can see in the map here, it lies in the far west of Japan. The reason why I chose this particular island was that I had heard about a huge stone structure found on the sea bottom near the shore. This spot has often been featured on TV and in books and magazines, so some of you may already know about it. I wanted to do some research on this mysterious structure, and that's why I decided to visit this island. For those of you who have not seen the spot before I have prepared some slides. Let's take a look at them. The first one shows what the structure looks like. It is 150 meters wide and 26 meters high. The top of the structure rises one meter above the sea. What impression do you get from this slide? Do you think it's natural or man-made? Before we try to answer this question, let's take a closer look. The next slide shows a stone structure which looks like a gate. If you swim through here, you see a pair of large stones standing right in front of you. Now, this one here shows what appears to be a road about five or six meters wide. If you keep going, you get to a stairway. On top of it, there is a flat open area as you can see here. There are other interesting features at the upper part of the structure. This slide shows something that appears to be a waterway.
There are also two large rocks that look like turtles. The last slide shows a place where a round stone, three meters across, is sitting on a base. If these features are man-made, what was their purpose? Some researchers believe that this stone structure was a fortress. Others say that it was a shrine because of the turtle-shaped rocks and the round stone on the base. No one has yet been able to explain fully why the structure was made, if it was actually man-made. Now, if this structure is man-made, it had to be built on land. As a matter of fact, scientists believe that there was a long land bridge between Okinawa and China about 200,000 years ago. Since then, the area around the mysterious structure has been under water several times. About 6,000 years ago, it went under water again, and the present geological features of the area were formed. If so, the structure was formed sometime before 6,000 years ago. One scientist even claims that it was created over 10,000 years ago. If it is that old, it means that there was once a very old civilization that has now been lost. Some scientists don't believe that this stone structure was man-made. They claim that the evidence is not strong enough.
Some people say that stories about lost civilizations should always be taken with a grain of salt. However, let me just say this. People in Okinawa have long believed that there is a place called Niraikanai at the bottom of the sea, and that it's where their ancestors used to live. Some say it is related to the legend of Urashima Taro and the underwater castle he visited. Since we have often handed down our history in the form of legends, the belief in Niraikanai and the legend of Urashima Taro may possibly reflect the memory of people who used to live in old Ryukyu. We know that Urashima Taro brought back a tamatebako, a treasure box from the underwater castle. What will scientists bring back from the sea bottom of Okinawa? Will it cause a big change in our understanding of human history, or will it be nothing but "smoke"? We will just have to wait and see. Thank you for listening. これで終わりです。よろしくお願いします。
This - apart from the trivial exception - is such a commonplace that I am ashamed to mention it at the biginning of this book.
Only, I have to mention it for a good reason: that I can't help stating the fact, before going on to inquire into the reason.
All I wish to do is to ask the question "Why"?
To this question the practical answer is hardly less obvious than the fact.
They forget that all is but a dream, destined to pass away with the passing of time. They forget, what Shakespeare would remind them of, that "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
In my neighborhood, there are many people from other countries,and I often hear foreign languages. There are a couple of million non_Japanese people in Japan. They come from all over the word,and speak dozens of different languages. Mabe they all book at Japan in different ways.So if we want to understand them, we should learn their languages. How many languages are there in the world? There must be quite a few,I think.
>378 ・これはあまりにありきたりなこと─ささいな例外は別としても─なので、この本の冒頭で 述べるのを恥ずかく思う。 ・ただ、私にはそれを述べなければならないもっともな理由がある。原因の究明に入る前に この事実を述べないわけにはいかないのだ。 ・私はただ「何故?」と問いたいだけだ。 ・この質問に対する実際的な回答は、この事実とほとんど同じぐらい明白である。 ・すべては夢も同然であること、時間の経過と共に廃れてゆく運命にあることを彼らは忘れ ている。 ・They forget, what Shakespeare would remind them of, that "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep ──謎
When I finished my Ph.D. classwark, it was time to undertake research for my dissertation. My professors wanted me to research on Afghan women. I did not want to do that; I preferred to research the subject of oil and politics in Iran. However, it was imperative that my professors be pleased with my dissertation, so I bowed to their wishes. In 1973, I was in New York on my way to Agfhanistan to do research. I heard on the radio that there had been a coup d'etat in Kabul and that the borders wewe closed. Oh,I was happy! I called my professor to ask permission to change my plans. He agreed and I departed to spend a year in Iran researching on oil policy. Of 356 students from around the world who applied to do political research in Iran that year, I was the only one who was granted a permit by the Iranian Goverment. I felt privileged until a goverment official told me the reason. It is assumed, he said, that women do not remember or think too much, so they pose little threat. What a surprise it was to me that my gender was viewed with such disdain in Iran!
>>385-386ありがとうございました。 他のもよろしくお願いします。申し訳ありません。 Kenji: First of all, I would like to ask you when you decided to go to Africa to study chimpanzees. Jane: Well, I don’t remember exactly, but I know I was very young. I knew that somehow I would go to Africa to live with animals, study them, and write books about them. Kenji: I’m sure there are lots of young people who want to work with animals someday. How can they prepare themselves? Jane: well, there are a lot of things you can do in order to understand animals. It is very important that you watch them and observe their behavior. It is also important that you write notes and ask questions: why? how? and what for? If you are really determined, you will find a way. Don’t give up. When the chance comes, go for it! Kenji: You have spent many years in Africa studying chimpanzees in the wild. In what ways are they like us human beings? Jane: You’d be surprised! Their brains are like ours and their behavior is like ours. They also have much to learn in their childhood. The members of a chimp family are very close, often helping one another. They can feel sad, happy, afraid, or angry. They can solve problems and plan for the future. Also, they can be taught to use sign language. Some of them love painting.
Kenji: So chimpanzees are very smart. what about their character - I mean, are they friendly? Are they cruel? Jane: They are usually friendly, but they can be cruel, just like humans. Kenji: Really? How so? Jane: Well, they patrol their own areas, sometimes attacking chimps from another community. But they can be very kind and loving too. One time at about the age of three, a chimp called Mel lost his mother and was left alone. We all thought he’d die. But, to our surprise, a twelve-year-old male chimp called Spindle took care of him. Kenji: In what way? Jane: Well, he often let Mel ride on his back and share his nest at night. I often saw him even sharing his food if Mel asked for it. Chimpanzees can be loving and caring. Kenji: Now, let's talk about the environment. Today's environmental problems must worry you. Jane: Yes, we humans must understand that wild animals have the right to live, and they need wild places. Besides, there are some kinds of living things that we must not destroy. Many drugs for human diseases come from plants and insects. When we destroy a wild area, maybe we are destroying the cure for cancer and other diseases without knowing it. Kenji: I see. Jane: Yes. And everything in nature is connected. In a forest, for example, plants and animals make up a whole, complex pattern of life. If we destroy that pattern, all kinds of things can go wrong.
Kenji: An example? Jane: Sure. One time rabbits all over England died of disease. Since the foxes didn't have enough to eat, they started killing the farmers' chickens. The farmers then killed the foxes, and rats rapidly increased in number and destroyed the farmers' grain. The farmers ended up losing as much as they had lost to the rabbits. We humans are in danger of destroying our environment and ourselves along with it. Kenji: So are you worried about our future? Jane: By no means! My hope lies in young people. They not only know about environmental problems, but actually want to solve them. That's why I decided to start Roots & Shoots Kenji: What's that? Jane: Well, it began with a group of high school students in East Africa in 1991. It is called Roots & Shoots, because roots are strong and move gradually under the ground, and shoots seem small and weak, but they can break open brick walls. Kenji: So it's a kind of club for young people trying to solve environmental problems?
Jane: That's right. We now have groups in over fifty countries, with different activities in different places. It may be planting trees, starting recycling programs, collecting clothes for the homeless, or sharing your knowledge with disadvantaged kids. The world is a better place when you cause a sad person to smile, when you make a dog wag its tail, or when you water a thirsty plant. That's what Roots & Shoots is all about. Kenji: Some final words before we finish our interview? Jane: We humans are not so different from chimpanzees. But the most important difference is that we can speak and share ideas. Great ideas become greater; problems can be solved. So I want to say that every one of you has a role to play and can make a difference. Do you want to make the world a better place for humans and animals and the environment? Or not? これで最後です。よろしくお願いします。
下の@〜Bの日本語訳お願いします。よろしくお願いします。 @Hoshino Michio (1952-1996) was a famous nature photographer. He spent many years in Alaska. Here he looks back on his first journey to North America.
AThis week "Our Amazing World" reports on the world's great inventions. Richard Freedman joins us from New York. Over to you, Richard.
BInside the language lies life; inside the language lies death. -Hawaiian saying-
When we talk with other people, sometimes we cannnot understand what they really mean. Misunderstandings can happen any time. Here are some hints to avoid them.
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Do you like talking with your friends? You will probably say yes. But have you ever stopped to think about what is going on while you are talking? When we are talking with each other, we are constantly exchanging messages. This exchange of messages is called "communication" For communication to be successful, it is essential for us to get each other`s message correctly. However, we sometimes fail to get the speaker`s message correctly. In other words, we sometimes misunderstand what the speaker wants to say. How does misunderstand-ing occur?
PROGRESS IN ENGLISHのBOOK5のTHE MANDARIN DUCKという話です。和訳お願いします。
THE MANDARIN DUCK
Folk tales in every country have a subtle power of instilling ideals into the minds and hearts of each successive generation. The following folk tale, handed down from generation to generation in Japan, illustrates the power of love, which lives on beyond the apparent barrier of death.
Long, long ago in the district of Tamura-no-go, in the Province of Mutsu, there was a falconer and hunter by the name of Sonjo. One day, falcon on arm, he went out hanting. Expert hunter though he was, he found no game that day. With his empty sack slung over his shoulder, he trudged homeward, tired and hungry.
On his way home he was about to cross a river at a place called Akanuma when he perceived a pair of mandarin ducks swimming together among the reeds.
Though he knew it to be wicked to kill such beautiful fowl, under the impulse of his great hunger he fitted an arrow to his bowstring and let it fly.
His arrow pierced the drake through the heart, but the famale of the pair escaped into the reeds on the farther shore. Sonjo took the dead drake home and made a delicious meal of it.
His evening meal over, Sonjo lay down to sleep. During the night he dreamed a strange dream. In his dream it seemed to him that a beautiful young woman entered his room and stood beside his pirow, weeping bitterly. She wept as if her heart were broken. So bitterly did she weep that Sonjo felt as if his own heart were being rent with grief. He wondered why the young woman grieved so bitterly.
Then the fair young lady cried to him, “Oh, why did you kill him?Why? What harm had he done you that you should have killed him? At Akanuma we were so happy together─ and your cold arrow pierced his heart! Oh, how could you have been so heartless? What a cruel deed you have done! What a foul crime committed! To kill a lover is to kill not one, but two. Me too you have killed. For I will not live without my husband.
Our lives you have taken, but our love you cannot extinguish. Only to tell you this have I come.”
So saying, she burst into tears again, crying so bitterly that Sonjo felt his own heart pierced with sorrow. Then the lady sobbed out this poem: 日暮るれば 誘ひしものを あか沼の 真菰がくれの 独り寝ぞ憂き
After uttering these sorrowful verses, she sobbed,“Ah, you do not what you have done. But tommorow, when you go to Akanuma, you will see. You will come to know…” Then she slowly disappeared, shedding bitter tears.
On awakening the following morning, Sonjo was restless. The dream lingered so vividly in his mind that he was deeply disturbed. The woman's last words kept ringing in his mind: “Tomorrow, when you go to Akanuma, you will see…” He intended to have stayed home that morning, but in spite of himself he set out in the direction of Akanuma. “It was nothing but a dream,” he kept saying to himself, but words kept coming back like a refrain, “When you go to Akanuma, you will see…you will see…”
On arriving at the river bank, he perceived a mandarin duck swimming alone. At the very same moment the duck perceived Sonjo. But far from trying to escape from the hunter, she swam straight towards him, her eyes fixed on his as much as to say, “Ah, it is you. I Knew you would come. Now you shall know.” Then with her beak she tore open her bosom and died before the hunter's eyes!
Iran was a somewhat difficult place for a single, 24year-old woman. I did not know anyone when I arrived and even simple issues such as how to find a place to live and how to shop were very difficult. My Farsi was not yet good enough to converse well and I was extremely lonely. So many times I wanted to go home, but I never would have forgiven myself if I had given up. After I returned to the United States, the next big steps in my life were to finish writing my disseration and to get a job. Both turned out to be much harder than I though they would be due to a difficulty that would come up again and again in my future-sexism. In the United States, a committee of professors review one's Ph.D. dissertation. Tomake a lonf story short, one of the professors took me aside and told me that if I would spend the night with him, things would go easier for me. I declined and was very distraufht. I was embarrassed, so I let no one know.
PROGRESS IN ENGLISH(Book6)のTACKLING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMSという文章です。どなたか、和訳よろしくお願いします。
TACKLING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
Many of the most compelling international problems of today are environmental.
The warming of the earth caused by the production of carbon dioxide, the destruction of forests by acid rain, pollution of rivers and oceans, uncontrolled desertification, the destruction of the protective ozone layer by the chemicals in sprays─these are just some of the problems under discussion among scientists, government officials and environmentalists, and in the media.
The collective awareness is rapidly growing that the global environment can only be protected for the coming century through genuine international cooperation.
But this will repuire some radical rethinkikg on a fundamental level.
>>430の続きです。 Since the outbreak of the Minamata disease(mercury poisoning)in the late 1950s, environmental problems have been a major social issue in Japan, and various measures have been devised to eliminate pollution and other dangers to public health. As a result, considerable improvements have been made, at least in dealing with problems that are conspicuous in our daily lives.
The number of days one can see Mount Fuji from downtown Tokyo has greatly increased, and the smell of the Sumida River that runs through the oldest part of the city has faded; fish have returned to its waters.
The issue now attracting international attention tell us clearly, how ever, that environmental problems have by no means been solved. The pollution we recognize and experience directly may have lessened, but the sphere of human activity in general has greatly expanded, and experts are pointing to signs of immense changes in the ecosystem.
my mother in an identical twin.people still have trouble telling her and my aunt apart. I've always wondered what it is like to grow up with a best friend who is always there-and looks like you- so I interviewed two sets of identical twins to hear their stories.
続きです。 forty-eight-year-old Jim and Ted Henson are identical twins.“We have a friendship going back 48 years.Very few people have that."says Jim.“that's right.It'll be our golden wedding anniversary soon" smiles Ted comparing their relationship to a marriage. The twins share lue eyes,a taste for ironed T-shirts and most of their mannerisms.Both stick their tongues out of the corner of their mouths after they've cracked a corny joke.Both clasp their hands behind their backs when they stand. Jim and Ted live in different cities, But they keep in constant touch, talking at least once a week. Identical twins share not only their outer looks but also their inner makeup.Created form the same egg,every drop of their them.Dr,Angus Grant of Oxford University says that almost one in 150 of the British population is an identical twin and that this number is steadily increasing-although nobody yet knows why. The second set of twins I visited were the Nicoll twins.Twenty-three-year-old Sue and Kate can think of nothing better than being a twin.“It's cool'cause you always get recognized."comment Kate.“you always have someone to turn to when you have a problem." observes Sue.
What happened the first time Scott went out with his happened the first time Scott went out with his nametag on? Where does Scott meet people now? What does Scott say about nametags? What do they do? What do you think? Are people afraid to be friendly?
Posted by keiko_nagai at 22:06 │Comments(2) このBlogのトップへ │前の記事 この記事へのコメント ながいさん、そんなもんです。近ごろわざと?って聞きたいくらい先生運のない私。一緒に。・゚゚・(>_<)・゚゚・。 Posted by 月うさぎ at 2006年04月25日 23:22 一緒に泣こうね。 。・°°・(;>_<;)・°°・。。・°°・(;>_<;)・°°・。
一卵性双生児は、外見だけでなく、内面も分け合っている。 Created form the same egg,every drop of their them.(←わかんない。なんか抜けてる?) オックスフォード大学のアンガス・グラント博士は、英国人口のほぼ 150人に1人が一卵性双生児であり、その数は着実に増え続けている ――理由はまだ誰にもわからないけれど――と言う。
if you weighed all people under age 30 and also asked them how many dates they have had in their lifetime,you would find a direct correlation,meaning that it appears that the more people weigh, the more dates they have had.this dose not imply causation. heavier people don't necessarily get more dates and dateing dose not make us gain weight.in this case the two variables happen to be correlated with age.people in their twenties weigh more and have had a longer opportunity to have dates than teens,preteens,and young children.
While their claims may be true,it is perfectly plausible that the policies and the economy were unrelated, or that the economy did well or did poorly despite the policies.
statistics show that they are only around 80 percent the same in everything-from stature to health to IQ to political views. are they the same because they grow up in the same environment,or because they have the same genes? James Arthur Springer and James Edward Lewis are identical twins who were reunited at 39 after being separately adopted as babies. Springer and Lewis each married and divorced a woman named Linda and remarried a Betty. お手数かけますがどなたかお願い致します。
What I mean is that such a histrian, instead of relying on books and documents which he may consult without once stepping outside his ivory tower, should learn to look at the West as a whole, and at himself as a Westerner, from a distance; and that such a distance can only be reached in a far country like Japan.
And this knowledge I have gradually assimilated and put together since coming to Japan, partly on occasion of my practical need (as professor of English literature) to explain my language and literature, my culture and religion, to Japanese students, partly too by the means thereby afforded me of forming a general view of England and the English, of Westerners and the West. Thus I have come to see my country and myself from afar, in a vision from which perplexing details have come to disappear, and in which the whole is revealed in its main outlines.
For the rest (if I may pair Newman with Hamlet), may heart speak to heart in silence.
Any man may see the state of the world today, at least in general terms. For the past forty years or so, it has been in a state of confrontation between the two big powers of America and Soviet Russia.
That is what we have to learn, in order to understand this strange confrontation.
Then it was a state of confrontation between two other big powers, namely England and Germany. It was out of their struggle, and their consequent exhaustion, that those other big powers came to emerge: that of America from behind England, and that of Soviet Russia from behind Germany.
>456 >私が言っているのは、そのような歴史家は象牙の塔の外へと足を踏み出すこと無しに自分 が調べるかもしれない本や文書に頼るのではなく、距離を置いて西洋を全体として見たり 自分を西洋人として考えたりするやり方を身につけるべきだということであり、また、そ のような「距離」は日本のような遠い国でやっと手に入れられるということである。 (私が言っているのは、そのような歴史家は、象牙の塔に閉じこもって本や文書に頼りき るのではなくて、遠くから西洋を概観したり自分はあくまで西洋人なのだと自覚したりす る方法を身につけろということであり、かつ、このことは日本のような遠くはなれた国に 来てようやく可能になるということである) >そしてこのことを念頭に置き、私は日本に来てから次第に同化し一緒になった。 それは部分的には英文学の教授として現実的に母国の言語、文学、文化、宗教を時折日本 の学生達に説明する必要があったからであり、そしてまた部分的には、このやり方を通じ て英国と英語、西洋人と西洋に関する全体的概念を形作ることができたからである。 このようにして私は母国と私自身を距離を置いて見るようになったが、このものの見方を するとややこしい細かいことは消え失せ、全体が主要な輪郭を伴い現れるのである。 For the rest (if I may pair Newman with Hamlet), may heart speak to heart in silence. (>その他の点に関しては(もしニュートンとハムレットを組み合わせれば)何も言わなく ても分かってください・・・・???????この一文は分かりません)
Aこれ↓が出る Lesson3 "Crossing the Border -Medecins sans Frontieres-" @和訳 ... Lesson3 "Crossing the Border -Medecins sans Frontieres-" @和訳 >> After I had worked for about eight years as a doctor in Japan, 8年間日本で医者として働いた 後、 I went to Switzerland for further study at the University of Geneva. ... file.gotchan.nobody.jp/english2/Lesson3-1.txt - 3k - 補足結果 - キャッシュ - 関連ページ
If nothing is done, it is feared that continued reduction of the ozone layer, warming of the earth, desertification, acid rain, and so forth could, in the long term, threaten the survival of the human race and all other forms of life on the planet.
These issues may not pose an immediate threat to our daily lives, but their damage could be permanent if proper steps are not taken now.
It is Japan's responsibility as an industrialized nation to take the initiative in tackling the issues, introducing measures that take a much longer perspective than ever before contemplated.
The most basic remedy in a long-term task like this must be sought through education, and this involves a thorough review of educational concepts and school courses, especially in the sciences.
This is vital because education shapes the outlook and attitudes of those who will take the lead in society in the years to come.
Most of the phenomena causing air and water pollution, as well as reduction of ozone layer, can be traced to the technological advances attained through scientific research; they are the products of human inquiry and invention.
PROGRESS IN ENGLISH BOOK5の“SAVE OUR PLANET!”という文章なのですが、どなたか和訳よろしくお願いします。
A song goes “There's a big beautiful planet in the sky. It's my home. It's where I live.” Thir planet, this home, this habit of ours is endangered.
Many people see the problem as a local one, an isolated concern: smog over LosAngeles, the extinction of this or that animal species, an oil spill on a beach.
However, the danger is really global. Threats to ecology involve the whole planet. They touch every area of our global habitat. Exhaust fumes have been polluting the air of all our big cities. The world's tropical forests in Brazil and elsewhere are being destroyed. The deserts of Africa are expanding as the land-hungry farmers make arid and unfertile wider and wider areas. It is estimated that we are destroying one acre of forest every second, and that if this rate of destruction continues, the forests will have disappeared in another few decades.
The extinction of many species of animals accompanies this destruction of forests. It is estimated that 40percent of all the animal species live in the tropical rain forests that are being so rapidly destroyed. It is estimated that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 species became extinct in the final decade of the 20th century. What a loss to our planet!
One of the most frightening threats is the threat to the ozone layer that serves as a protective screen around our planet. Thir ozone layer screens out the sun's ultraviolet rays. In recent years it has been damaged to a frightening degree. The world's uncontrolled use of fossil fuels ─coal, oil and natural gas─ is releasing so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that the resulting “greenhouse effect” could warm the earth dramatically and disastrously.
Exhaust fumes from cars, chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs for short) from aerosol sprays, refrigerators and so on are consuming the precious ozone and letting in ultraviolet rays, so much so that scientists warm that during the 21st century the polar ice could melt to an alarming degree, causing the oceans to rise and coartal cities to be flooded.
The threat, therefore, is not confined to one country or region. Tackling the problem as a national one is not only inadequate but futile.
No effective action can be taken until we recognize that serious environmental damage anywhere is everyone's concern and that calamity threatens all of us.
If disaster to our environment is to be averted at all, it can be averted only by multinational cooperation. Without such cooperation before the damage is beyond repair, calamity is inevitable. “Save our planet!”must become our common appeal.
Sue was once approached in pub by a man with whom Kate had had a one-night stand. He said,“sorry Ididn't call you." I was like,“Oh,it's OK.I understand." Sue says that sometimes it's just too much trouble to explain. As the twins talked, sometimes they chorused what the other had said, sometimes they finished a sentence the other had started. when I shut my eyes,they sounded like one parson holding a conversation with herself. However, no twins are completely identical says Professor Tim Spector, who heads the twin research unit at St.Thomas'Hospital in London. “Eggs split at a very early stage and the cells multiply and multiply and multiply. Eventually some things become different." According to the professor, moles and freckles are similar in only 90 percent of twins. And in a quarter of identical twins, one is left-handed, one right-handed. For the twins I met, it is odd and sad to be single. Who could possibly think it's better to be alone, they wonder. Perhaps secretly, we all long to be twins. I know I do.
What we all understand, better than anything else, about friendship is that, when things go wrong, the results hurt more than any other experience we know.
To be wounded in friendship is to be caught in a desert where we cannot shield ourselves from the blinding high-noon sun of betrayal and disappointment.
We ache and thirst and can only wait for the pain to wear off and go away.
The corruption or loss of friendship is the hell on earth every person dreads.
This is the world's open secret about friendship, and everybody ─no exceptions─ knows about it from personal experience.
But people still seek friendship, even after suffering a cruel disappointment at the hands of a friend, even though they are uneasy lest the next friendship will also go bad.
People turn toward friendship the way they naturally seek out other things that are good for them.
>>520の続きになります。 Just as, when deprived of salt, people seek it out, so by a kind of human instinct that is related to the wisdom of the body, men and women seek out the company and approval of other persons. They cannot get along without it. Perhaps nothing is more dangerous to the human heart than friendship when it goes wrong; but nothing is better for it when friendship works at least partially right. The best of friendships, after all, exist between people who have their share of human shortcomings.
UNICORN ENGLISH COURSEU のLESSON3についての質問です。 P.32の本文の Iqbal Masih は、人名だと思うんですが翻訳サイトでは イクバルMasih とでます。日本語ではどう表記したらよいでしょうか…? もう1つ、P.33の6行目の、 As I walked home through my middle-class neighborhood,my thoughts were on the other side of the world. の訳も翻訳サイトの訳は明らかに変だったので、和訳をお願いします。よろしくお願いします。
訳お願いします。本当に困ってます。 Japan,a country where traditional social values have undergone considerable change over recent decades, has seen some of the worst cases of school bullying in the world. In one common type of bullying,children are consistently excluded from their peer group. This bullying is begun by a few classmates and then perpetuated by the group as a whole. Such collective bullying in a homogeneous society has become a hot topic in the Japanese press, especially following several widely publicized cases. In 2000,the parents of a Chiba prefecture schoolgirl who committed bullycide successfully sued the school and the abusers for 41 million yen(about US&380,000) in damages.The father said in the trial that some male students had verbally abused the girl daily, using such expressions as “You smell bad”or“Die”
At ACDA,I worked primarily on nuclear non-proliferation policy, trying to reduce the dangers of the spread of nuclear weapons. The work itself was very rewarding; I felt like I was doing something that mattered.Unfortunately,the work environment was a bit more difficult than in the Department of State. At one of my first meetings with my new ACDA boss, I told him that I thought it was very important to reopen dialog with China on arms control. I told him that we ought to schedulea trip there to discuss non-proliferation.My boss replide, "That's fine, but I want you to know that I will be talking my wife."I t took me a few moments to understand because the remark seemed so irrelevant. Then I understood,but did not know what to say. My boss thought I was propositioning him! Looking back, I do not think I could have done or said anything differently. It was just a fact of life for me that some men would think like that and others would not. I just had to make sure that such incidents did not affect me and that I would continue to act very professionally.
この訳教えてもらえないですか?訳していかないと留年確定してしまうのですけど全然わかりません。お願いします。 Making use of the title is the second step in the Previewing stage of critical reading. It is often the case that a reader skips the title and immediately starts to read the passage. However ,by reading the title,your knowledge and memory of the topic may be activated,and you will be more able to from your own opinion about the topic.In other words,“Inferring from the Title”allows you to get ready to read the text critically. Before reading the passage in this chapter,did you look at the title,“How Can We Stop Bullying at School”? If so,the following questions might have occurred to you: ・What is my opinion about bullying? ・Do I have any experience of bullying or being bullied? ・Is there any way to stop bullying?How is it possible? You may not have realized it,but if you read the title before reading the article and if any of those questions occurred to you,then you were reading critically.Good job!
宜しくお願いします Kyoto Gov. Kenji Yamada and Kyoto Mayor Yorikane Masumoto promised they would implement local measures to reduce gereenhouse gas emissions.
Environmental groups and other organizations also held commemorative events in Kyoto to mark the enactment of the global climate pact. About 300 environmental activists and others gathered in front of Kyoto City Hall in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto at 1 p.m. on that day.
Mie Asaoka, president of the environmental nongovernmental organization Kiko Network, said she wanted to celebrate the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol with many other people. “However, today’s only a beginning,” Asaoka added. “We have to make the protocol effective by taking various measures to reduce the gas emissions.”
Activists paraded about 1.5 kilometers to Yasaka Shrine via Kawaramachi-dori avenue, one of the busiest streets in the city. Some of them were dressed as penguins and seals to warn people about the loss of ice caps due to global warming.
Emilie McGlone, an American of Ota, Gunma Prefecture, a leader of the environmental group Bicycles for Everyone’s Earth, said, “I really hope the United States will pay attention to other countries that are making a difference and realize they also need to join the Kyoto Protocol.”
>>538 難しいのは前半だけのような希ガス。大学生みたいだから、後半は自分でやれるよね? ,and you will be more able to from your own opinion about the topic.の部分は一応強引に訳したけど 正確には合ってるかどうかわからない。あしからず。
D 貧困は想像以上にひどかった。深い絶望を感じる人もいた。だが僕はそういう感情は別な 方向へと向かわなければならないと思う。絶望を感じるのではなくて行動を起こそうと呼 びかける声が聞こえてくる。最初にイクバルのことを読んだときからずっとこの行動への 呼びかけを僕は聞き続けていた。この呼びかけが僕を後押ししてきた。世界中で人権を求 める労働者たちを突き動かすのも、きっとこれと同じ行動への小さな呼びかけであるに違 いない(←世界中で労働者に人権を求めようという気を起こさせるのも、これと同じ行動 への小さな呼びかけであるに違いない)。 僕たちは何百万人もの子供たちが暴力的で危険な環境の中で無理やり働かされているとい う事実から目を背けてはならない。僕は僕が会ってきた子供たちみんなの苦しみを世界に 広く伝えようと思う。世界の市民の一員として、僕たちは皆お互いに責任を負っている。 「私達は私達が見たいと思うような変化でなくてはならない」とガンジーは言った。 (「私達が見本となり、行動を起こさなければならない」…くらいの意味だと思う) 参考:Mahatma Gandhi once said that we must be the change we want to see, which means we need to set the examples and start the processes towards action now. その変化は私達一人ひとりの内側から始まり、そして子供たち皆が自由に子供らしく 生きられるようになるまで(←そして子供たち皆が自由に子供でいられるようになるま で)終わることはないでしょう。//
Or is there some fate at work? Or if we don't like to think of fate, isn't there at least some natural connection between England and America, between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, that has paved the way for the emergence of the latter from behind the former power?
We can see America as it were the large shadow of England to the West of the Atlantic Ocean; and we can likewise see Soviet Russia as the large shadow of Nazi Germany to the East of the wide plains of Poland.
As the German philosopher Hegel pointed out, history may be seen as the progressive unfolding of great ideas, which attain institutional form in great states.
It is, needless to say, the idea set forth in the American Constitutution.
This idea, however, has to be understood not in opposition to England, as a tyrant against whom the Americans fought for their freedom, but as a natural development out of England, as a mother from whom the Americans took their idea of liberty. After all, the Americans were originally Englishmen, with English blood flowing in their veins, who had gone for various reasons to seek a new home in the New World, and so they called it New England. The War of Independence, therefore, wasn't a war between two enemies but rather a kind of civil war between sons of the same mother. Even within America there were not a few whose sympathies lay rather with the mother country than with the revolutionaries.
The very idea of Revolution came from the Whig Revolution of 1688, called (by the Whigs themselves) "great and glorious". The philosopher of this Revolution was the Englishman, John Locke, who set forth his ideas of Liberty and Democracy a few years later in his Essay Concerning Civil Government (市民政府論)- a document that is fundamental to an understanding as well of English as of American democracy, and indeed of the modern world.
Further, behind the Whig Revolution of 1688 (with its rejection of monarchical rule) lies the Puritan Revolution, which led to the Civil War of 1642-49, when the English Parliament (supported by the Puritans) rose up against the King and defeated him. Thus in English politics we may draw a fairy straight line from the Puritans (about whom more remains to be said), through the Whigs (who began as the Parliamentary opposition to the Stuart kings), to the Liberals of the nineteenth century. And thus, too, the confrontation that occured in the eighteenth century between England and America was but a repetition of that which had already occured in the seventeenth century within England herself.
For it is from England that the Americans have taken their original ideas of individual liberty and democratic government -or to be precise, from a certain party in England, variously known as Puritan (in a religious context) and Whig (in a political context).
CROWN English Reading Lesson 5からです Don't you find that ironic-that you had to go all the way to a foreign country to get the attention you deserved at home? よろしくお願いします
The possessive adjective her, not the reflexive pronoun herself, should be used to modify contributions. The noun navigation should be used since it is the object of the verb improve and parallel to the nouns channel and harbor. The possessive relative pronoun whose must be used because the relative clause descrives a possessive relationship. When is the wrong word choice; for, or another appropreate preposition, must be used after useful. Jane Addams is the subject of the verb received; the pronoun she is unnecessary and ungrammatically repeats the subject. After the subject pronoun, they, there must be the finite verb. darken, to complete the independent clause. The noun form brightness is required after the preposition in, as in the parallel words size and mass. The comparative with less requires the simple form of the adjective, dense, not the -er form.
English for Health and Medicine Unit1 Stress and Anxiety
In our busy daily lives,people often feel stress and anxiety. As we become busy,the amount of stress that we feel becomes greater. Sometimes it is difficult to handle,and we begin to worry about it. This causes anxiety. It is normal to feel stress from time to time. However,when it begins to have a bad effect on our health it can become a bad effect on our health it can become a dangerous thing. Health problems caused by stress are headaches,stomach problems and sleeplessness. Stress is a common reaction to today's faster lifestyle. Fortunately,there are a few ways to keep it under control. 和訳宜しくお願い致します。
It is difficult to control things that cause stress. There is little that you can do if you are driving a car and get caught in a traffic jam. What we can control is how we handle the traffic jam. Do we get angry and honk the horn? Or do we turn on the radio and listen to some music? In this way,the driver can turn a stressful situation into a rest. When people have too much work to do,they keep working in hopes of finishing the job. This is a common cause of stress. What we forget when we fave too much to do is to take a break. Even a short visit to the rest room to wash your face can relieve stress. We produce better results faster if we take regular breaks.
Developing healthy habits is a good way to take care of stress and anxiety. Physical exercise is probably the best method to help reduse stress. Regular sleep and a balanced,healthy diet are also important. It's good to eat foods that contain lots of magnesium,which we lose when we are stressed. Foods that contain this are spinach,nuts,corn,bananas,pasta and bread. Chamomile tea is another healthy way to calm down and reduce stress. Finaly,relax and make time for fun. Any activity you love-cooking,tennis or music can help decrease stress.
Regardless is the wrong word choice; regarding is correct In is the wrong preposition; from should be used with to to indicate a span of time between two dates. The word order is incorrect here; property modifies damage and must be placed before damage. The plural pro noun them is incorrect; the singular pronoun him should be used to refer to James Baldwin. Listened is the wrong word choice; heard would be used in this context.
The possessive adjective her, not the reflexive pronoun herself, should be used to modify contributions. The noun navigation should be used since it is the object of the verb improve and parallel to the nouns channel and harbor. The possessive relative pronoun whose must be used because the relative clause descrives a possessive relationship. When is the wrong word choice; for, or another appropreate preposition, must be used after useful. Jane Addams is the subject of the verb received the pronoun she is unnecessary and ungrammatically repeats the subject. After the subject pronoun, they, there must be the finite verb. darken, to complete the independent clause. The noun form brightness is required after the preposition in, as in the parallel words size and mass. The comparative with less requires the simple form of the adjective, dense, not the -er form.
I went to America for the first time when I was sixteen Nowadays many young people go abroad; things have changed a lot since I was a boy. To me,America was a strange,far-away land.However,I had a dream tn cross the ocean by ship and to hitchhike across America
In high shool,I got part-time jobs to save money. My fathe became interested in my plan and gave me money for the trip.It was a difficult decision for my father. For one thing, he was an office worker and it was a large amount of momey for him. For another,people would tell him not to all his san to go on ruch an adventure. Foreign lands were so far away for us in those days;how could a boy ever hope to make it home safely?
CROWN1のreading1です 和訳よろしくお願いします。 After doing all this thinking, he finally came to the conclusion that it was best for him to go back to where he came from. So he left for the Northlands. He thought, "I won't have to think any more. How happy I'll be! I won't have a thought in my head." But he was wrong. When he got back home and sat on his own special piece of ice, he just could not stop thinking. And of course, his ideas floated out of his head at once and froze. As soon as his old friends ― the bears, penguins, and seals ― read his thoughts, they all ran away from him. They thought that it was very rude to think. Poor Wal-Rus! Now he could only think bad things about his old friends. And these thoughts appeared over his head in ice letters. His relationship with his friends in the Northlands got worse and worse. Finally, he was left all alone on the ice. Then it became warmer and warmer in the Northlands. Thoughts did not freeze in the air, so nobody could read them any more. But Wal-Rus was now in the habit of being alone. He was dreaming of the good old days when he didn't think. He thought: "It was terribly cold, but what a lovely, easy life it was!"
MILE STONE Lesson5-2の前半部分の和訳をお願いします。 [本文] The platypus lives in chambers which it tunnels in the bank of rivers or lakes. The tunnels that it digs slope upwards towards the living chamber at the far end. This means that the chamber is above water level and is safe from flooding. During the breeding season, the males and females sleep in separate beds. The male stays in the usual living quarters, but the female does off to build her own private nesting chamber, where she will give birth and rear her young. As the moment of egg-laying draws near, she lines her nest carefully with wet leaves. She carries these down her long tunnel, not in her hands or her month, but in her tail, which she curls foward to hold the leaves tight. It is important that they are wet, because she must keep her den damp. This will prevent her eggs from drying up after they have been laid. カモノハシの話です。どなたか、お願いします。
Every day thousands of hectares of tropical rain forest are felled somewhere in the world, in Brazil's Amazon region, in Southeast Asia and elsewhere on the globe. Most of us are now aware that this fuels the greenhouse effect or global warming, by diminishing the vegetation that produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide. But forest destruction has other harmful effects, including the decrease in Earths' ability to serve as home for many species.
Alteration of landscape by humankind is causing many species to die out. Most of the destruction has two root causes: the clearing of plots for subsistence farming or to obtain wood for fuel or charcoal by impoverished nearby residents, and the indiscriminate logging by huge lumber companies. The first group rarely is aware of the environmental issues involved; that can hardly be said of the latter any longer. 続きます。
続きです。 Japan today is one of the biggest consumers of the world's timber and is the target of increasingly vociferous environmentalists, but our appetite for forest products shows few signs of diminishing. The campaign to have us reject the common disposable wooden chopsticks, or “waribashi”, for a personal, reusable pair barely made any headway in the country, although such seemingly small efforts can go far to awaken others to the importance of environmental issues.
I went to America for the first time when I was sixteen Nowadays many young people go abroad; things have changed a lot since I was a boy. To me,America was a strange,far-away land.However,I had a dream tn cross the ocean by ship and to hitchhike across America In high shool,I got part-time jobs to save money. My fathe became interested in my plan and gave me money for the trip.It was a difficult decision for my father. For one thing, he was an office worker and it was a large amount of momey for him. For another,people would tell him not to all his san to go on ruch an adventure. Foreign lands were so far away for us in those days;how could a boy ever hope to make it home safely?
People have been taking natural foods for centuries. However,they didn't call them``natural foods"since everything was natural. In the past,most people were of what foods were good for their health. Natural foods were understood by ordinary people. We ate fruit and vegetables regularly rather than vitamins or supplements. Most people today know that they should have oranges in winter. They do this for the vitaminC. Though there is no cure for the common cold,vitaminC is known to help prevent getting sick.
These days,people's knowledge about what is limited. We eat pizza,instant ramen and hamburgers without any fresh vegetables. This is a pity because fruit and vegetables are what help keep us from getting sick. When we get sick,we take pills or other forms of medicine. If we want to keep healthy,we take vitamins and supplements in addition to our pizzas and ramen. Vitamins and minerals are best when they are truly natural. Even so,they are more convinient in pill from. The best sources for vitaminC,strawberries and oranges,taste good so we for vitaminC,strawberries and oranges,taste good so we continue to eat them.
Vitamins,minerals and other supplements are becoming popular. Because of this,governments are starting to regulate them. They are doing so to improve quality control and safety. Another problem is the lack of information. Many people taking vitamins and other supplements don't have enough information to take the right amounts. Certain vitamins or supplements are known to be dangerous for pregnant women or older people. More education and information are needed to keep us safe from taking the wrong supplements.
PRO-VISION Lesson1 P16 Laughter comes between sentences to separate ideas and to make some ideas stand out. Most of what Dr.asa learned came from watching and listening to people. You and I can do that, too. 和訳お願いします。
MILESTONE L5-2中間部分の所なのですが、 Next she does something strange. She goes to the entrance of her tunnel and starts walking down it towards the nesting chamber in a special way. As she goes along the tunnel, she keeps stopping. At each pause, she pushes a plug of earth into the space behind her, patting it down tight with her tail. The tunnel may be up to 33 meters in length and all along it she makes these little barriers.
The story of cooffee begins around the year A.D.800. Imagine a young boy, kaldi,watchingover his goats in a wide,open field. The afternoon sun is hot,and it has msde Kaldi sleepy.As he sits down to rest,he notices his goats dancing around in the field.They have been eating the bright red berries of a bush in the field.Kaldi jumps up and tries some of the berries himself.Soon he is dancing around together wiht his goats. A monk who is walking by notices this strange sight.He too trise some of the berries and finds that they lift his spirits.He takes some of the berries with him back to the other monks. They are pleased because the berries help them stay awake buring the evening prayers.This is only one legend of the discovery of coffee-----and there are many.However,most researchers believe that the field where Kaldi,or someone else,first discovered coffee was in Ethiopia,a country in northeast Africa.
>>637の続きです。 Before coffee became a drink,it was used around A.D.1000 as a kind of food by the Galla people of Ethiopia. The berries were first crushed,mixed with animal fats and then shaped into balls. The balls could be carried and eaten on long trips. Also,around 1000,coffee plants were taken from Ethiopia to some of the Arabian countries. the drink cooffee that we know today probably originated in Turkey.Often spices such as cinnamon were added for flavor. Kiva Han,which opend in the city of Istanbul about 1475, was the first coffee shop in the world. Politicians,philosophers,artists,students and travelers all got togethe for the lively discussions. Often musicians could be heard playing there as well Around 1600,Italian traders introduced roasted coffee to Europe. At first, people drank coffee as a kind of medicine. By 1645,asthe drink decame more popular, one of the first European coffee houses was opende in Venice. Later, coffeehouses could be found across Europe. These coffee houses also became popular places for people to gather. お願いします。