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最近読んだ道新の社説を一部翻訳してみました。

「トイレなきマンション」とは高レベル放射性廃棄物というごみの行き場が定まらない原発をやゆする言葉だ。

A house without a toilet is a phrase often used when people ridiculously refer to   nuclear plants where nuclear waste has no place to go.

この下世話なたとえはわかりやすい反面、事態の深刻さを薄めてしまう軽い響きを持つ。

Frequently used  similes such as this have an advantage of being easily understandable, but carries a careless tone of diluting seriousness of the state of affairs.

放射性廃棄物は手に負えない毒だ。現実はトイレどころでは済まないことを、札幌シアターキノで公開中の映画、「１００，０００年後の安全」は冷静に訴えかける。

Radioactive waste is uncontrollably poisonous.　

There’s 　a movie named “Safety in 100000 Years “which is currently premiered in Theater Kino, Sapporo.

It tells us that the “actual dimension of the problem is far more serious than toilets.

フィンランドは世界で初めて、放射性廃棄物の最終処分場建設に着手した。カメラは地下５００メートルまで岩盤を掘り進む建設現場に降りていく。

Finland started building the world’s first permanent nuclear-waste repository.

The camera goes down to the construction site where drilling is done 500 meter underground.

廃棄物が無害になるまでの１０万年を耐える建造物という建造物という計画の途方もなさ。

What an extraordinary plan it is to construct a building that can last 100,000 years until the nuclear waste is no longer deadly to human beings.

圧巻は、施設の危険性を未来世界に警告する方法について悩む科学者たちへのインタビューだろう、

BUCKINGHAM　POSTという新聞にやっかいな研究結果がでたので紹介します。

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified the radiation emitted by cell phones to be “possibly carcinogenic”. （国際がん研究機関　IARC)が、携帯電話の発する電磁波を”発がん性があるかもしれない”分類に入れた。

This puts cell phones in the same category as lead, the pesticide DDT, and automobile exhaust.（これにより携帯電話は、鉛、DDT殺虫剤、自動車排気ガスと同じ分類にくみこまれることとなった。）

 Governments around the world will be pressured to update the public on the dangers of using cell phones for too long.　（世界中の政府は国民に対し長時間携帯使用の危険性を新たにしらせる圧力にさらされるだろう）

The IARC reports that making calls for more than half an hour a day over 10 years could increase the risk of developing gliomas – a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine – by 40 per cent.（IARCの報告によると、一日に３０分以上の携帯使用を１０年以上続けた場合、脳や背骨にグリオマと呼ばれる腫瘍ができる可能性が４０パーセント高まる。）

 This is considered “limited” evidence, as further studies are needed to determine whether the gliomas are simply caused by chance.（だがこれは限定的な証拠と考えられており、グリオマの発生が偶然なのか否かについては更なる研究が必要とされる。）

 There is no evidence that cell phone radiation causes other kinds of cancer.

（携帯の電磁波が他のがんを引き起こす証拠は出ていない）

Scientists have known that cell phones emit radiation, and that much of it is absorbed by the body.（電磁波が携帯から発生し、その大部分が体内に吸収されることを科学者たちは知っている。）

 But until recently, cancer studies have been inconclusive because tumors can take decades to develop, and cell phones are a fairly recent technology.（だが、腫瘍が拡大するのには数十年かかるのに対し、携帯電話の技術はつい最近のものであるため、がんに関する研究は最近まで結論が出せないでいた。）

Although Christopher Wilde, director of IARC says that more research needs to be done, he says that “it is important to take pragmatic measures to reduce exposure such as hands-free devices or texting.”（IARC所長のクリストファーワイルド氏は、更なる研究が必要としながらも、ハンズフリーやメールなど、露出を減らす実際的な手段を講ずることが大切と述べている。）

結婚、出産、新居など、お祝い時に送るグリーティングカードを専門に扱う会社がアメリカにあります。

社名はホールマーク社（Hallmark)といい、すでに１００年の歴史を誇る老舗なのだそうです。　競争激しいアメリカ社会で一企業が１００年生き抜くのは容易ではありません。　もらってうれしくなるようなカードを作るため、常に開発に力を入れてきた、ということなのでしょう。かわいいキャラクター、斬新なデザイン、そして心を打つメッセージ。どれをとっても頷けます。

そんな会社がつくるCMですから中途半端なわけがありません。　長さなんと２分の大作。

主人公は妹の結婚式に出席している兄貴。　この男、いつも一言多いので親戚や友人からうとんじられている。　　このCMの前半は、そんな彼のようすが描かれます。

一人目の女性に対しては、You look like you’ve lost a ton of weight. 「おもいきりやせたね」　

二人目の男性には、Do you see that girl over there with the brown hair?　Really high-maintenance.　（あそこにいる茶髪のコ、いいよな）　→　しかし彼女はその男のフィアンセだった。
 
三人目のおばさんには、名前を間違えて呼びかけ、不快にさせる。

そんなヘマばかりやらかす主人公が、披露宴の途中いきなり立ち上がり、スピーチを申し出る。

「また始まった」前出の三人がみな眉をひそめる。新婦の妹さえもオロオロする。初老の男性客も小声で不安を口にする。

そんななか、主人公が取り出したのは、ホールマーク社製のお祝いメッセージカードだった。

そこに書かれた文章を一生懸命に話す兄、その文章の素晴らしさに表情を変える聴衆。

終えた後、「この文章は僕が作ったものではありませんが、僕の気持ちそのものです。」と兄。

万雷の拍手。

感動した妹が兄に抱きつき、ありがとうと言う。

ここで終われば最高なのに、兄貴は最後にまた余計なことをいう。「さあみなさん、ケーキを食べて。二千ドルもしたんだから」

動画は下記をクリック願います。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J1RFSL7fEE

Sara, long time no see.
 
Hi! Your sister looked beautiful.
 
Oh, thanks! You too. You know, you look like you’ve lost a ton of weight.
 
Do you see that girl over there with the brown hair?
 
Really high-maintenance.
 
That’s my fiancée.
 
Hey, Aunt Kay!
 
Hey, it’s Barbara.
 
Oh, right. Sorry. Yeah, Kay was my Uncle Bill’s second wife.
 
Yes, I know that.
 
Sorry.
 
Can I have your attention? Can I have everyone’s attention, please?
 
I’d like to say a few words about my sister.
 
Oh, no.
 
Well, I’m not really very good at this kind of thing but here it goes.
 
Oh, this is gonna be good.
 
Angie,　you’ve been blessed to find someone you can move through this life with.
 
Together, you’ve learned that love doesn’t just happen.
 
You have to create it, craft it, and nurture it.
 
It can be even better when it’s been held in the palm of the hand…
 
…and cradled for a while.
 
You’ve grown a love that is enduring,…
 
…stunning in its beauty.
 
Congratulations on your wedding and continuing to create your lives together.
 
I didn’t actually write those words…
 
…but I do mean them.
 
I love you, Angie.
 
That was beautiful, Chris.
 
Now, eat up everyone, my mom paid like two grand for that cake.

映画好きだった父からよく聞いた名前でした。

今回、この特集追悼番組をディクテーションして、彼女の偉大さ、破天荒さにあらためて敬意を表したい気分です。

聞き取った文章は、いつものとおり下に載せますが、全訳はやめときます。（体力が続かないので。）　

その前に、気になった表現などを２，３紹介させてください。

１．the woman who broke the rules and the pay barriers for women in film.　ルールをぶち破り、映画女優の報酬の上限をもぶち破った女性。

２．I’ve had a lot of tragedy in my life. I’ve had the lowest valleys, the highest highs. 私の人生、多くの悲劇があった。どん底も最高も経験した。

３．She was the first actress to earn a million dollars for a movie　（一本の映画で百万ドルを稼ぎ出した最初の女優だった）

４．But Elizabeth,the actress was often eclipsed by Elizabeth, the woman.女優としてのエリザベスが、一人の女としてのエリザベスによって侵されることがしばしばあった。

５．She　married eight times to seven men, ７人の男性と８度の結婚。（つまり２度結婚した男がいた。）

  

いやはや読めば読むほどすごい人だ・・・・では本編をどうぞ。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3MLgGdVDCY

The last of the legendary superstars has died. A superstar from an era when American movies were so powerful, the whole globe feasted on our celluloid dreams and her face. Elizabeth Taylor died of heart failure today at 79 and every generation of Americans knew her and followed her turbulent life. The girl with the violet eyes, the woman who broke the rules and the pay barriers for women in film. And in some ways, she created this frenzy of tabloid celebrity we all live amidst still today. But she was also a woman who was never tougher than when looking at her own choices.

 

I’ve had a lot of tragedy in my life. I’ve had the lowest valleys, the highest highs. I’ve had extreme happiness. I’ve had addictions. I’m like a living example of what people can go through and survive.

 

Have you ever thought of what you wanted on your tombstone?  Here lies Elizabeth.

She hated being called Liz. But she lived.

 

And boy. Did Elizabeth Taylor live. The last icon and first global superstar. She once told me that she couldn’t remember a time when she wasn’t famous.

Famous for her acting, illnesses, jewelry, friends, marriages and divorces.

Above all, for her stunning beauty , whether glamorously thin, or later unhappily heavy, time never dimmed her legendary violet eyes. She was born with a double set of lashes.

And she was so rapturously beautiful little girl that you couldn’t believe it and full of composure.

 Every day, I pray to God to give me horses. Pushed by her mother, Elizabeth was a movie star at 12 years old.  How do you do?  Her career spanned 70 years of more than fifty films.  I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.

 

Opposite the screen’s greatest leading men.

 I love you.

She was the first actress to earn a million dollars for a movie.  Elizabeth Taylor.

And won two oscars, her last for this sheering 1966  performance.,  Maybe George  Bowie  didn’t have the stuff. That maybe he didn’t have it in him.

But Elizabeth,the actress was often eclipsed by Elizabeth, the woman.

Married eight times to seven men, she married Richard Burton twice, the public and paparazzi  consumed her every romance. She said there were two great loves in her life.

Director Mike Todd, who tragically died after one year of marriage, and Richard Burton, who in 1962, she met on the set a Cleopatra.   We both tried very hard to resist, it was just like, boom!

And the rest, as they say is –  is  in  history. Both were married at the time.

And their very public affair, condemned by the Vatican, became an international scandal. Unquestionably, their torrid relationship was one of the last century’s great romances. Richard Burton was a great actor.

 And also a hunk.

Throughout the ’60s, The Burtons were the most celebrated couple on the planet , superstars before there was such a word.

Lovers and friends all showered her with jewelry, a collection considered one of the finest in the world.

 Don’t get your fingerprints on it. Look at that.

In later years, Taylor successfully transformed herself into a businesswoman, selling perfume.

But her humanitarian work may be her greatest legacy.

Using her fame, she raised millions for aids research, bravely standing by actor Rock Hudson, one of its first victims, when others shunned him.

To the public, she may have been the last great movie star.

But for those who knew her, she was also a loving mother and loyal friend.

 There have been so many lessons, life and death lessons, emotional lessons.  I don’t believe in regrets.

And I have no idea what’s going to happen tomorrow, no one does.

 And Barbara Walters is here now.

We were saying earlier, we don’t think of her as a pioneer, but her sheer fearlessness about her own choices in life changed things in this country.

Absolutely.

By the way, she never wrote her autobiography.

This, all the different clips that people will see, that’s her autobiography.

She was gutsy and salty and funny.

And look at the things we’ve talked about , married eight times. She wanted to get married, she married them. She wanted to divorce them, she divorced them.

She championed aids when nobody did.

She stood by people who were rejected.

Michael Jackson adored her. Rock Hudson.

And everything she did was bigger, maybe not better, but pronounced and different.