女優エリザベステイラー、79年の生涯に幕

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.

 

 

英作文チャレンジコーナー(はいはい道新) Hokkaido Newspaper “Readers’ voice column”

 

毎日通勤で通る道で気になっていることがあります。いつも通るその道は冬は車一台分くらいの幅しか除雪されておらず、歩道は除雪後の雪が山積み。近く小学校に通う子どもたちは仕方なく車道を歩くしかありません。車とすれ違う時は交通事故に巻き込まれるのではないかといつもひやひやします。幹線道路の除雪も大事ですが、子どもたちの安全のためにも通学路の歩道を最優先で除雪してほしいものです。(1月31日 道新)

There’s something on my mind about the road I take everyday on my way to work. For this road, the snow shoveling is not done enough, making it as wide as a single car lane.

The shoveled snow gets pushed aside, blocking people from walking on the sidewalks. Thus, children going to school or a facility have no option but to walk on the road instead. It makes me shiver every time I see cars passing by, causing me to fear the  kids might get involved in an accident.

It’s important to clear trunk roads of snow. But I want the authority to carry out snow clearance on school roads for school children’s safety .

英作文チャレンジコーナー(はいはい道新) Hokkaido Newspaper “Readers’ voice column”

料理に使うため、ピーマンに似た野菜のパプリカを一個買ってきました。
大きめの黄色いパプリカでしたが、ヘタの近くに傷みがあったので輪切りにすると、なんと実の中に同じ色の小さなパプリカが胎児みたいに入っていたんです。
家庭菜園でピーマンを栽培していますが、こんなのは見たことがなくびっくりしました。ひょとしたら何かいいことがある前兆かもしれないですね。夫は「宝くじでも買っておけ」ですって。(北海道新聞 2011年1月25日)
 
  
 
 
 
 
I bought a paprika, a vegetable that looks like Japanese “peeman”, for my cooking purpose.
It was big and yellow.
There were some bruises near the calyx, so I thought of cutting it into round slices.
As soon as I cut it open, there was  another paprika of the same color inside.  It looked like an unborn baby growing inside.
I grow “peeman” (green peppers) in my own vegetable garden, but nothing like this happened to me before.
Maybe this is a sign of good luck.
 “Why not buy some lottery tickets?” says my husband.
 
 
 
 

英作文チャレンジコーナー(はいはい道新) Hokkaido Newspaper “Readers’ voice column”

 
 
 
地産地消をうたった懸賞に私と夫の名前で2通応募しました。あまり期待せずにいたところ、主催者から当選の知らせがあり、希望した魚の一夜干しセットが届きました。大好物のツボダイのほかホッケ、カレイ、など5種類の干物が10点ほど入っていて夫婦で大喜びです。六日間続けて夕飯でいただきましたが、日頃スーパーで購入している干物とは違い、どれも特上品で大満足でした。久々にうれしい思いを味わいましたよ。(北海道新聞 2011年1月17日号)
 
My husband and I signed for a prize contest whose slogan was “Produce locally, consume locally”. We sent in two applications with our names respectively.
Though not expecting to win, we got a notice from the authority that we won the prize, a set of “Ichiyaboshi ” or overnight dried fish we had wished for.
There were about ten fish of five species, such as my favorite Tsubodai (Japanese armorhead), Hokke (Atka mackerel), Karei (Flatfish).
We were both pleased with the prize.  We ate them for dinner for six consecutive days.  All of them were of high quality and not the kind that you can get at a regular superstore. We never had tasted happy moments like this for a long time.
 

怒りの乗客、空港ロビー内にテント・・・ Airport Christmas for Europe’s stranded travelers

 

聖夜の寒波、欧州を襲う。空港は大混乱・・・・

せっかくの休暇が降雪と低温で台無し。イブの夜を空港ロビーで過ごした客は数千。

(右の写真は、搭乗をあきらめた乗客が空港ロビー内に建てたテントです。)

動画は下記をクリックしてください。

 
Across the Atlantic, thousands of travelers including  Americans  are in a race against the clock to get home for the  holidays only to be told to get ready to camp out a long wait. NICK WATT reports from London tonight.
The busiest international airport on earth, the busiest travel week  of the year. Thousands of passengers are now  trapped in what they are calling HOTEL HEATHROW. They won’t make it home for the holidays.
My son and I come home,  it’s like a present to my parents.  and I was even going to surprise them a little bit.
  
With London’s worst snow in twenty five years and the coldest in December in hundred years, Heathrow is just not equipped to deal with it.
  
“I’m truly sorry for every spoiled Christmas holiday, every disrupted travel plan.
In Germany today, a thousand flights were cancelled. In Paris a third of all flights grounded.
  
“Our flight coming in was Air France   ? ”  The guy on the left is a French transport minister. “Our flight was cancelled, we weren’t told the the flight was cancelled.”  In Brussels, they just ran out of de-icer  “They are closing the airport now, right?”  Right. Closed until Wednesday, at the earliest.
  
Many roads across  Europe are also a mess, and the railways, well that is a five hour line snaking around  London’s international Train Station. Some passengers are angry, but most are sanguine   “I’ve just stayed in the cold for three hours. I’ve got no blood left actuallly getting excited. So we just sit there and wait.”  “If I have to take a boat, I will.”  “Good. Determination. Good luck. I hope you make it.”  Sadly the news isn’t great tonight. The temperature is gonna plummet again and a lot more snow is forecast.
Nick Watt. ABC News London.
  
 
 

英作文チャレンジコーナー(はいはい道新) Hokkaido Newspaper “Readers’ voice column”

可燃ごみ収集日に革ブーツとズック靴、プラスチック製踏み台を他のゴミと一緒に袋に入れてステーションにだしました。1時間ほど後に見たら、ブーツとズック靴、踏み台の三つだけが袋から出され、ステーション脇に並べられていました。不燃ごみと思った誰かが袋を開けて出したのでしょうか。市の収集車が来たので聞いたらいずれも可燃ごみでいいとのこと。ごみ袋を勝手に開けて仕分けするなんて不愉快です。おせっかいはやめてください。
 
 (12月14日)
 
 
On the flammable garbage collection day, I  put a bag of trash out in the garbage station.
In the bag were my leather boots, canvas shoes, plastic stool and other trashes. 
 
I got there again about an hour later. Unbelievably enough, the boots, shoes and stool were out there, lined up next to the garbage station.
Somebody had opened the bag and taken them out, thinking they are not combustible.!
 
Then the municipal garbage collection vehicle arrived and I asked the men if those articles belong to the flammable category or not.  They answered “flammable”.
 
I want to have a word or two with the person who meddled with my bag.
 
“It’s quite annoying. Mind your own business.”
 

13歳少年、エヴェレスト登頂に成功。

すでに世界5大陸最高峰を制覇しているジョーダンロメロくん。 次に選んだのはエヴェレスト。 長期欠席をする彼に学校側は2カ月分の宿題を与えたとか。

動画は下記をクリックしてください。

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-yW4X4BX_I

本文

We always encourage kids to get outdoors and be active, but one extraordinary teenager is taking that advice to a whole new level. (私たちはよく子どもに対して外へ出て活動しなさい、などと激励しますが、そういうアドバイスで途方もないレベルにまでのぼりつめた10代の少年がいます。) EARLY SHOW special contributor Ayla Brown is here with this story. Good morning again. (朝ニュース番組アーリーショーの進行役、アイラブラウンに話してもらいます。おはよう)

AYLA : Good morning, HARRY. Jordan Romero is an inspiration to young people across the country. At age thirteen, he set some pretty high goals for himself, as you’re about to see. (おはようございますハリーさん。ジョーダンロメロ君は国中の若者を感化する人物になってしまいました。 若干13歳で自分自身にとても高い目標を課したのです。 それではどうぞ)

AYLA : At twenty-nine thousand thirty-five feet Mount Everest is matched by no other. One in ten summit attempts ends in death making it a feat few climbers can boast of, but that’s exactly what thirteen-year-old Jordan Romero is planning to do. (29035フィートの高さを誇るエベレスト山、他に類を見ません。ここの登頂は10回に1度の割合で死につながります。そのため頂上到達を自慢できる登山家がほとんどいないような偉業と思われています。 しかしこれこそが、13歳少年ロメロ君のめざす目的なのです。)

What do your friends think about all of this?  (このこと、友達はなんて言ってる?)

 

JORDAN ROMERO: Well, they are more psyched about me climbing Everest. You know it’s one of the few mountains, big mountains that they know about. (みな興奮しています。だってみんなが知っている中で一番大きな山ですから)

 

AYLA : Ever since elementary school, Jordan has been conquering high altitudes on a regular basis.  Before his twelfth birthday, he’d climbed the tallest mountain on five of the seven continents, including Mount Denali in Alaska. (小学校のころからジョーダン君は定期的に高い山を登ってきました。12歳になるまでに、七大陸のうち五大陸の山を踏破しています。その中にはアラスカのデナリ山(マッキンリー)も。)

WOMAN: Jordan is doing great. (ジョーダンってすごいわ)

AYLA : There every step of the way with him were his father Paul and Paul’s girlfriend, Karen. (登山の時、いつも一緒にあるくのは父のポールさんとその友人カレンさん)

KAREN :  Denali was a,  I think, kind of a turning point for us in climbing the mountains.

We’re almost to the fixed rope section. (デナリ山は、私たちが登山するにあたってある意味で折り返し地点となりました。 もうすこしでフィックストロープの場所です)

PAUL ROMERO : The strength and the fortitude and the manliness he showed on that mountain was something I’ll never forget. It was when he just broke out of whatever shell he had and he became a man. (あの山を登る際に息子が見せた強さ、不屈の精神、男らしさは私にとって忘れられないものです。殻を割って表に出た、いわば大人になった瞬間でした)

 

JORDAN ROMERO:  People have been saying that it’s tougher than Mount Everest but we don’t know that, we’ll see. ((デナリ山)はエヴェレスト山より難しい、といわれてきましたが、真偽のほどはわかりません。だから確かめるんです。)

 

AYLA : Guess, you’ll find out. (自分で突き止めるということですね)

JORDAN ROMERO: Only one way to find out. (エヴェレストに登ることが)それを確かめる唯一の方法です)

AYLA : But many who have climbed up Everest to it’s so called Death Zone question whether a thirteen-year-old’s  judgment and reflexes are developed enough to handle the challenges.  But Jordan’s dad disagrees. (ですが、エヴェレスト山のいわゆる死の地帯まで登り詰めた人は多くが疑問を呈しています。13歳の少年に、その挑戦をこなすだけの判断力と反射神経がそなわっているのか、と。)

PAUL ROMERO:  I’m no XXXX. I know that a lot people have died. The upper part of the mountain is literally a graveyard and I have an incredibly strong young man that I would take over several of the professional athletes that I know and work with. (たくさんの方々がお亡くなりになっているのは知っています。山の上層部は「墓場」です。ですが私のせがれは信じられないほど強靭な若者なのです。 プロの運動選手をしのぐほどの。)

AYLA : What are you most afraid of?  (いちばん恐ろしいのはなんですか)

JORDAN ROMERO: I’m most afraid of just the – well, of course, it’s dangerous up on the mountain, but I’m aware of it. I don’t want to ignore it, but I just want to climb my best. (いちばん恐ろしいことですか。 あの山に登ることが危険なのは良く分かっています。それを無視支度はありませんが、とにかく登りたいのです。)

 

AYLA : Daily agility and strength workouts, along with the endurance training using heavy backpacks, have helped Jordan reach to the peak of his physical ability, even his blood is being prepped for the thin air of Everest. This is pretty cool. (重たいリュックサックを背負っての忍耐トレーニングにあわせて、敏捷性や体力増強の訓練が行われています。 エヴェレストの薄い空気にそなえて血液さえも状態を整えています。)

JORDAN ROMERO: Yeah.

AYLA : How– how many hours do you sleep a night in this? (この中で何時間寝ているの?)

JORDAN ROMERO: Maybe about six. This is a way for me to condition my blood for the altitude up on Mount Everest. (たぶん6時間ぐらい。エヴェレスト山の高度に合った血液状態をつくる方法はこれなんです。)

AYLA : If Jordan can successfully make it to the summit of Mount Everest, he’ll become the youngest person ever to stand at the top of the world.

What’s going to be the first thing you do when you come back down from Mount Everest. (もし登頂に成功すれば世界で最も年少の人が頂上に立ったことになります。もしそうなれば、最初に何をしたいですか?)

JORDAN ROMERO: I have been thinking about that– but that is probably to throw the biggest party ever. (ずーっと考えていたんですが、盛大にパーティでもやりyたいと)

AYLA : The biggest party? (もっとも盛大なパーティー?)

JORDAN ROMERO: Yeah. (そう)

AYLA : Are we invited? (私たちも呼んでくれる?)

JORDAN ROMERO: Everybody’s invited. (皆さんだれでも歓迎します)

AYLA : All right. Now, if Jordan makes it to the top of Everest, he plans to climb Mount Vincent in Antarctica later this year, and if he’s successful, he’ll be the youngest person ever to climb the Seven Summits. (さて、もしエヴェレスト登頂に成功した場合、彼は今年後半に南極大陸のヴィンセント山に登る計画をしています。 それも成功すれば世界7大陸最高峰を制覇することとなります。)

HARRY : The biggest summits on the– on the seven different continents. This is crazy. Thirteen years old, he seems very mature. Is that the kind of read that you got? (七大陸最高峰とはすごいですね。 13歳にしては彼は水分大人に見えます。 そう感じませんでしたか?)

AYLA : Yes. When we visited him I was very skeptical because I thought to myself how can a thirteen-year-old handle this but after meeting him, I’m very confident that he can do this. (はい、最初彼の家を訪れたとき、13歳の子供がなぜこのようなことをやれるのか、と疑いをもっていましたが、彼と会って話をするうちに信じられるようになりました。 この子ならできると。)

HARRY : And they leave tomorrow. (出発は明日?)

AYLA : Yes, they leave for the summiting adventure tomorrow. (はい、明日冒険に出かけます)

 

HARRY : Right, because it takes a lot of time you get up there, you have to do this a lot. (たどりつくまでにやることがたくさんあるから時間かかるのでしょうね?)

AYLA : It actually takes about six weeks to two months to do the whole process because they have to get their lungs accustomed to the thin air. (薄い空気に肺を慣れさせるのに6週間から2カ月かかるそうです。)

 

HARRY : Yeah, and what about school?  (ほう、それで学校の方はそうなるの)

AYLA : School?  You know, although he’s thirteen, he took a– a kind of leave of absence for this semester. (ご存じの通りかれは13歳ですから、学校は有給休暇のようなものを今学期にとることになります。)

 

HARRY : Sure. (たしかに)

AYLA : But what’s very impressive is that he’s taking two months worth of homework on the trip to Everest. He loves math.  He does it every day;

(これが印象的だったのですが、彼には2カ月分の宿題があたえられました。算数が好きなので、毎日やることになります。)

HARRY : Yeah.

AYLA : –and I’m sure he’ll be doing it when he’s, you know, on the summit. (きっと頂上に立っている時も宿題しているんだと思います)

 

HARRY : Yeah. That’s right. I would love to make the summit, dad, I have to finish my trigonometry. I’m sorry, here. This is very interesting. I was skeptical, too, just going into the story, but seeing him, seeing the preparation involved, still talking to his father. This is a highly under the best of circumstances, a highly dangerous thing. (そのとおり。私も頂上に立ってみたいけれど、そのときは三角関数でもやらなきゃなりませんね。 非常に面白いはなしです、私も初めは懐疑的でしたが、話をきくにつれ、周到な準備をみるにつれ、お父さんと話すにつれ、危険に対してベストの環境で望んでいることがわかりました。)

AYLA : Of course. Many experts believe that a thirteen-year-old’s mind is not mentally prepared to handle the challenges in case anything bad were to happen. But at the same time, other experts say that because he’s already climbed five out of the Seven Summits, what’s Everest. (専門家の中には13歳では万が一不測の事態が起きた時の対応に気持ちがついていかないだろうと信じる人が多い半面、すでに5大陸の最高峰に登っているならば、エヴェレストぐらいなんてことはない、という人もいます。)

HARRY : Yeah, very interesting, good stuff, Ayla. Welcome aboard. (非常に面白い作品でした)

AYLA : Thank you very much.

ウーマンオブザイヤーに表彰された難民の母

毎年母の日に「ウーマンオブザイヤー」を決めて表彰するTV番組があるそうです。今年選ばれたのはエチオピア難民の過去をもち、生活苦に耐えながら6人のお子さんを全員大学へ行かせた清掃婦の女性。いや泣かせます。

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biZR219jY2M → 動画はここをクリックしてください。

I am actually here in Erie, Pennsylvania. And I’m at St.Vincent Health Center here. (私は今ペンシルベニア州エリエのセントビンセントヘルスセンターに来ています。Now you are not going to believe this, because all of the nurses here wrote to nominate her.(信じられない話ですがここの看護師が全員、彼女を指名するよう書いてきたのです。 Her name is Almaz Gebremedhin. And they call her “Little A”.(彼女の名はアルメズゲイブラメヒン。まわりのみんなはリトルA と呼んでいます。) She has no idea I’m here at all.(彼女は私がここに来たことをまだ知りません) As a matter of fact, she’s actually  a cleaning lady here at the hospital.(彼女はここで掃除婦をしています。) And she started her shift at about five o’clock. (朝5時からのシフトで働いており)She’s cleaning in the lobby right now.(今ちょうどロビーをきれいにしています) She has no idea that I’m here. But wait till you hear her story.(彼女のストーリーについてはもう少し待ってください。) It’s gonna blow your mind.(ジーンとくるようなお話ですから) Let’s go try to find her OK? Hi. (さあ、彼女を探してみましょう) I’m looking for Little A. Little A is the one I’m looking for. How are you doing? How are you?  Hi there. Morning.    Are you little A? Excuse me. Are you little A? (すみません、あなたがリトルAさんですか?)You are live on Good Morning America. (「おはようアメリカ」の生中継です。Are you a little shocked over here my friend? (あれ、ちょっとショックを受けましたか?) Let me tell you something. You are the woman of the year. (ちょっと言わせてください。あなたは今年のウーマンオブザイヤーに選ばれました。)Your coworkers here, all the nurses upstairs in the maternity ward – they nominated you because you are just so amazing. And that’s why I’m here. (この上の階の産婦人科の看護師さんたちがみんなであなたを指名したのです、とてもすばらしい女性だから)So what are you gonna say? Come on honey. It’s OK? Al right.(しっかりしてください、大丈夫ですか?) OK I’ve got to show you this. Come here. I’ve got a surprise for you. (こちらへきてください。見せたいものがあります。)Come on with me for a second. I promise. Come with me for a second. I’ve got to show you this.(ちょっとでいいからこちらへ来てください。あなたに見せたいのです) It’s an amazing, amazing story.(おどろくようなストーリーを) You’re an amazing lady. I wanna show you something right here. Because my friend, Robin Roberts in New York, has got a little piece that we want to show you. (ニューヨークにいる私の同僚が、あなたの過去を素晴らしい作品にしあげたのです。Check this out.

In the thousands of submissions  one story stands out like a shining bright light: an e-mail from the nurses of St. Vincent Health Center.  (何千通もの応募の中で、ひときわ目立っていたストーリーがありました。セントビンセントセンターに居る看護師からのe-mailでした。

Where many lives begin, one story of motherhood touches people there every day.

たくさんの生命が生まれるこの場所で、ある母親のストーリーが多くの心を打っています。)Meet Almaz Gebremedhin. アルメズゲイブラメヒンさんを紹介しましょう。She’s a housekeeper on the maternity ward.  “Little A.” they call her.(彼女はここ産婦人科の清掃婦、リトルAという愛称で呼ばれています) 

“She’ll open up the door and she’ll go, Hi, girls. It’s Little A, and then we go, Oh, good.”

(彼女がドアを開けて、そしておはよう、リトルAよ。って叫ぶのよね。 そして私たちもOH GOODって言うの)

“She is everything, I mean. I would give anything to be  ALMAZ.(アルメイズさんのようになれるんならなんでもあげちゃうわ、そのくらい彼女は私のすべてなんです。) 

“When you talk to Almaz, you don’t realize what she’s been. She’s very upbeat,”

(いつも元気いっぱいいなんです、彼女と話をしてると過去のことなど誰も気づかないと思います。)

An Ethiopian refugee, she spent her childhood in Sudan. By the age of 15, she was in an arranged marriage and soon had five children. (エチオピア難民としてスーダンで幼少時代をすごした彼女。15歳で見合いをし、すぐに5人の子供が生まれます。

 

Then in 1993,  with her husband, children and a young nephew, she came to America, to Pennsylvania. (それから1993年、夫と子供、それに甥を連れ、彼女はアメリカペンシルベニア州へ移住しました。 It was there that her husband left her — she was in a new country with six children  all alone.そして夫が出てゆき、彼女は6人の子供を抱えたまま新しい国での生活を始めることとなります。)

“Once he left us, she was determined to succeed and not fail.” (父が出て行ったあと、お母さんはゼッタイに成功してやる、負けるもんかと心に決めました。)

From challenges to progress,  Almaz stopped collecting public assistance and took three cleaning jobs, working more than sixteen hours a day. (挑戦から前進へ。アルメイズさんは生活保護受給をやめ、清掃婦の仕事を3つかけもち、1日16時間労働をこなすことにしました。)

In 2005, she and all her children became American citizens. (2005年には親子全員米国籍を取得)

“I’ve never seen her put herself first, ever, you’re wondering how a human being can do that.” (彼女が自分中心に考えたところなど見たことがありません。 人間があそこまでやれるものなのか、と思うでしょう。)

“No one knows her struggles. No one really knows what she really goes through.”

(お母さんが耐えてきた苦労はだれにもわからないでしょう。)The struggle is what the children remember most, like  making  ends meet. (苦労、それは子供たちが一番つよく覚えていることでした。例えばお金のやりくりなど)

“You can just tell, she looked stressed just because of the fact she had all these bills on the table and she still had all of us in the house.” (テーブルの上に請求書がいっぱい置いてあって、いらいらしているのがわかりました。)

“We all went out for breakfast to eat and she didn’t have enough money to pay for us, I ‘ve seen her kind of  cry a little bit, you know. (ある日みんなで朝食を外で食べたことがありました。そのときお金が足りないのに気づいて少しだけ泣いたのを覚えています。)And to me, that’s one moment that I notice where she almost caved in. But from that day on, she never showed us that face ever again.  (私にしてみれば、母が弱音をはいたのはこの時だけ。それ以降2度と同じ顔を私たちに見せませんでした。

“She taught us how to respect people. She taught us how to work hard. She taught us how to love unconditionally. She taught us how to give. She taught us never to quit and to follow your dream.” (他人を敬い、懸命に働き、無条件で人を愛し、与え、そして決してくじけず夢を追い続けなさい、と母は教えてくれました)

 

Just listen to what a mother can do. All of her children  graduated at the top of their high school classes, and all going on  to Pen State – and  all on scholarship. (女手一つでここまでできるのでしょうか? 彼女の子供は全員高校を優秀な成績で卒業し、ペンシルベニア州立大学に奨学金で入ったのです。

“I don’t think Almaz understands what she really did with the accomplishments with her children.” . Her children say Almaz lives up to her name. It means “diamond” in her native language. (アルメイズさんは、自分が大きな偉業をなしたと思っていません。彼女の子たちはこう言います。「おかあさんはただ自分の名前に答えただけ。アルメイズという名前は母国語でダイヤモンドの意味なのですから」と)

“It’s a quietly shining diamond. That’s exactly what a  mother is.” “She’s a rare jewel. She is the best mother any kid could ever ask for.”  “She wanted us just to explore the world you know, and make our own choices basically.” (静かに輝くダイヤモンド、それが母なのです。珍しい宝石で、どんな子でも望むような母親像だと思います。世界を見て回りなさい。自分のことは自分で決めなさい、とか言います。

“Every day, I  want to tell her that I love her and, Thank you for making me a better person. Thank you for making me the man that I am. You did it. It’s because of you.”

(毎日会って話したいです。僕を立派に育ててくれてありがとう。今あるのはあなたのおかげですと言いたいです)

She’s not just inspiring her children. “She’s definitely somebody who has sacrificed for her children, and doesn’t seem to resent in any way.”この人は子供に感銘を与えただけじゃないわ。子どものために自己犠牲をしてきた人なの。どんな場合でも腹をたてないような。“There’s  a strength in this woman, most of us never experienced.”  (この人には強さがある。他の誰も経験しなかった強さが)

So this morning, good morning America. Emeril Lagasse, salute a mother and her American dream. We’ll end with the message to Almaz from her oldesy son.(おはようアメリカと司会者エメリルラガッシは、母親とアメリカンドリームに敬意を表し、最後に長男からのメッセージをお送りして終わりたいと思います。

I love you so much. You mean the world to me. And if I can give the world, I would.

(このワールド、うまく訳せないなあ、「世界」よりも何か適訳があるような・・・)

 

ここで画面は病院へ戻り、子供さんたちとの抱擁でクライマックスを迎えます。

いやあ、泣かせるお話でした。

 

 

行方不明の子、捜索打ち切り直前に発見!

この翻訳は、北海道旭川市の野村英語維新塾が行いました。

フロリダ州の密林に迷い込んだ女の子を探すため、警察の捜索隊が出動。 しかし4日たっても見つからず、署長は断念する瀬戸際だった。
その時、ボランティアの捜査員が彼女を発見!!! 他の捜索隊が見もしなかった場所に座り込んでいたのだった・・・・。
動画は下記をクリックしてください。
 
 
 
アンカー 
And now to the  miracle in the swamp. An eleven year old girl who has been missing since Friday has been found alive in Florida.   CBS new correspondent Whit Johnson is in Winter Spring this  morning with the latest. Whit good morning. 
特派員
 Maggie, good morning.   The brush (雑木林)around Nadia was so thick that rescuers had to use machetes (なた)to find her. Then it took them nearly two hours to get her to safety.  For days this community was on pins and needles (やきもきして)hoping for a miracle. And they got it.  After spending four days in a alligator infested swamp,(ワニが棲む沼地)   Nadia Bloom was found by a lone searcher.  
911 You need police, fire or medical?
Hey. I’ve got her. I’ve got Nadia.
特派員  A short time later rescuers carried the eleven year old to safety. 
警察署長のコメント I never believed in miracles, But I sure do now.  because I got to tell you all. We were getting close to that bewitching(適訳見つからないなあ、微妙な時間帯ってとこ?) hours. I had to make a decision. 
特派員Nadia  had gotten lost deep in this central Florida forest. 
父親 Our daughter is a nature lover. And she went on a bike ride. and she just stopped and went on to take some pictures.
特派員 Nadia had autism-related disorder called Asperger syndrome. (アスペルガー症候群)Her family believes she may have wandered off, IN PART, BECAUSE OF A BOOK  SHE HAD READ ABOUT AN ADENTUROUS GIRL WHO GOES CAMPING.(以前読んだ絵本の物語を思い出して森の奥に入って行った、と家族はみている)
医師 She’s done remarkably well. How she survived only she will know. That’s a story that becomes more open. 
特派員 Rescuers searched for Nadia through thick vegitation and waste deep muddy water.  But it was James King, a family friend from Church who found Nadia in a dry patch in the middle of the swamp where no one else was searching and called a police.
Sir. You’re in contact with her.
I’m holding her right now. Yeah, she’s OK. She’s got bites all over her. She’s got some scratches.(体中に虫に食われたあとと引っかき傷が)
The dispatcher(配車係) then asked to speak with Nadia.
Hi I’m the girl who got lost.
OK, Nadia. Are you OK? You’re not hurt in any way?
I’m not hurting.
OK
Yesterday Nadia was released from one hospital  over to authorities who tell her shoes  placed in another to be treated for dehydration.(脱水症状の治療のため別の病院へ搬送)
  Doctors are confident that she make a full recovery.(すぐに全快すると医師は見ている)  Maggie.
アンカーThank Goodness.
That was Whit Johnson,  Winter Springs, Florida.
Thanks Whit.

3月31日 水曜サロン

奇跡中の奇跡と呼べる事件がアメリカでおこりました。 夜中に脳卒中で倒れた女性が、助けを求めてかけた電話。 意識がもうろうとしていたため、友人にかけるつもりが数百キロはなれた女子大生につながってしまいます。 真夜中に鳴った携帯、そして見知らぬ番号。この女子大生はいたずら電話かと思い、出るかどうか迷います。 ここでもし女子大生が無視を決め込めば、脳卒中の女性は命を失うところでした。 結果的にこの女子大生は電話を取り、救急車を呼んで命を救うこととなるのですが、その背景には二重の奇跡が起こっていたのでした。 今日のサロンではこの話題でレッスンを行い、「夜中にかかってきた不審電話に出るべきか」を中心に話し合いました。 参考までにTVニュースの音声と聴きとった文章を表記します。

(注:前回同様聞き取れなかった部分は***やXXX で表しました。悪しからず)

 Wrong Number Leads to Saved Life ← (音声ファイル) click here for the sound

Here’s an amazing story. A woman suffered from stroke, then she made a desperate call for help to her friend, but she accidentally dialed a wrong number. But the stranger on the other end of the call ended up saving her life. She called 911.

 

Joining now is Taylor Booker, a freshman with the U.C. Riverside. Good Morning Taylor. 

 

Good Morning.  

 

Tell us about this.  Is this a change of definition of when a stranger called, DON’T HANG UP?  

You became a hero when a stranger called. What happened? 

 

*****Early  Saturday morning. I get a phone call on my cell phone and at first I thought that was a prank call. However, Mrs.Turner, she was in need of help, and when she said she needed help, I realized XXXXX   Quickly I spoke to a friend and she used her cell phone and called 911 police department. And they transferred me to Richmond  Police Department. I told them all the information I could get out of her, her name,  her city that she lived in, what had happened, and things that she had told  me, They quickly got the perimeter closer to her  house and helped her.

 

 

Taylor you saved her life, because the authority had actually had to break into her house to get her because she had in fact suffered from stroke and could not move. And I understand the reason you decided to pick up the phone call normally that you wouldn’t especially in the middle of the night, was because you noticed the area code and you thought that was near where you grew up? 

 

Yes. The area code was actually my area code that I was actually  in so the first thing I thought was that it was a friend or   someone called me from a different cell phone so I thought I had to pick up the phone for him.

 つまり、運命を分けたのはおばあさんの市外局番でした。 女子大生が幼少のころ住んでいた地域の市外局番と同じだったため、「昔の友達かもしれない」と考えて通話ボタンを押したのでした。 

私が彼女の立場なら、電話を取らず、おばあさんを死なせることになった気がします。 皆さんはどうでしょうか?