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中村哲医師

アフガニスタンとパキスタンの国境周辺を医療活動をつつけている「ペシャワール会」の中村哲医師についての出題がありました。平易な英文です。まずここでの引用文を読み、さらに読すすめたい場合は添付ファイルを開いて全文を読み、設問に答えてみましょう。当スクールのリーディングの原則は、

1. 声を出さずに、頭の中で「音読」する
2. 内容を訳ではなく、イメージで頭のなかに描き出す
3. 後戻りをしない。

ですが、これをやって内容を把握するまでには一定の訓練が必要です。うまくいかない場合は無理にやろうとせずに、「自分の読み方」で読んでください。訓練の説明が聞きたい場合は、Skpype経由で「デモ」指導をします。連絡してください。

さて、文章の書き出しは以下です。

  Tetsu Nakamura is the executive director of Peshawar-kai Medical Services (PMS), a nonprofit organization set up in 1983 which enables him to provide medical services along the tense border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. PMS Main Hospital, in Peshawar, Pakistan, where Nakamura is the hospital director, is the base of operations for the PMS. PMS runs four clinics for refugees and poor people along the border. The total number of patients that were treated in 2002 was 158,103. Nakamura manages a staff of 140 (including 16 doctors), 90 percent of whom are Afghans, and spends more than two-thirds of the year in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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続き→kanto-6.pdfをダウンロード

荒川静香選手

受験生にとっては、オリンピックどころではありませんね。まったくメダルのとれなかった日本選手団でしたが、荒川選手がやってくれました。以下に各国の新聞報道から荒川選手の発言の英訳を集めてみました。何かの足しにしてほしいものです。
明日は、「国公立」の前期試験ですね。このブログにきていただいた方は、合格という「金メダル」を獲得してくれるものと信じます。

[BBC]
"I thought about quitting - I'm very glad now that I chose to continue," said the 24-year-old.
"I want to give hope to everybody who watches me skate.
"I made a mistake in the programme but I could skate with pleasure. I was hoping to win a medal but I'm surprised - it hasn't sunk in."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/4738110.stm
[CNN]
"I still can't believe this," said Arakawa,
.....
"Right now I'm just so surprised about all of this that I'm speechless," she said. "I never expected that I would be the first one to win a medal for Japan, so I didn't feel that pressure. But I'm very happy that I am the one who won it."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/olympics/2006/02/23/figure.skating.gold.ap/index.html

[NYTimes]
"I can't find the words for this," she said through an interpreter.
.....
And she did not seem nervous, which may have been her biggest accomplishment. "She expected to win the first medal for Japan," Arakawa's interpreter said, paraphrasing her answer. "She didn't feel any pressure."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/24/sports/olympics/24skate.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=login

◎以下の表現は他にどんな言い方をしていますか。
１．it hasn't sunk in.

２．I'm speechless

３．I didn't feel that pressure.

◎I want to give hope to everybody who watches me skate.
荒川選手が言った、どんな言葉の英訳でしょうか。

◎"She expected to win the first medal for Japan,"
原文のままですが、やはりこれは「誤植」だと思います。文脈に合うように直すとどうなりますか。

A Briefer History of Einstein

  Throughout his life, Einstein's efforts toward peace probably achieved little that would last--- and certainly won him few friends. His vocal support of the Zionist cause, however, was duly recognized in 1952, when he was offered the presidency of Israel. He declined, saying he thought he was too naive about politics. But perhaps his real reason was different: to quote him again, "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
[from A Briefer History of Time, Stephen Hawking,2005]

1.　... little that would last
ここが分かるか？

２．His vocal support of the Zionist cause, however, was duly recognized in 1952,
この文は何を読むか？ここは'however'を読む！
また、このcauseは必須。

３．He declined, saying he ...　　あたりまえのように出てくる「分詞構文」、しかし自然に読み進めばよい。

４．"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
有名な引用句。

equation、eternityあたりは必須単語。