お願いします Shakespare is without doubt the world's most famous writer. Not only are his plays still widely performed all over the world, but movie versions of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet have recently been very successful. Considering that Shakespare has now been dead for nearly 400 years, this is an achievement. Shakespare was born in 1564 in the pretty country town of Stratford-upon-Avon in the west of England. His family was neither poor nor rich. he married when he was 18 and his wife died seven years later after giving birth to three chirdlen. A few years later, we find William Shakespare in London, trying to make a success in the world of the theatre. The period from the late 16th to the early 17th century was one of the most dynamic and fertile periods in the history of the English theatre. Plays were popular at every level of society, from the poorest people to the royal family. There were theatres and acting companies all over London.
250 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/21(火) 20:01:33 ]
続きです。 Shakespare was a playwright with one of these acting companies. It was his job to provide the actors with enough material to satisfy the constant demands of the audience for new plays. In fact, during his career, Shakespare wrote a total of nearly 30 plays--- usually divided into tragedies, comedies and histories. Perhaps one reason that Shakespare is still so popular is that he was a playwright and not a novelist. Even the greatest novel is fixed in time --- it cannot be changed. Plays, on the other hand, are continually being changed as they are performed. talented directors, actors and set designers will always bring their own ideas to the plays and breathe new life into them. Also, thought people have enormous respect for Shakespare's plays, artists always feel that they have the freedom to adapt them to suit the time's they live in. But this still does not fully explain the enduring appeal of Shakespare. After all, there were many playwrights living at the same time writing similar plays. Shakespare's special power comes from a unique combination of talents. One is his mastery of the English language. The other is his deep understanding of the human heart. Even though his characters were created hundreds of years ago, their feelings and motivations--- Macbeth's murderous ambition, Hamlet's indecision and Othello's jealousy---are timeless. よろしくお願いします
⑤In some respects the whisperers are right. Wen foreigners first arrive, they usually can't speak Japanese and often don't understand how things are done here. However, that doesn't mean that they can't learn both the language and the culture if they're given time and encouragement.
⑥Amid the widespread fear of foreigners, it's worth keeping in mind that everybody on this planet is either an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants. Even the Japanese people had to come from somewhere. Setting creation myths aside, it's safe to say that today's Japanese are themselves descended from long-ago immigrants from the north, west, and south.
258 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/21(火) 23:26:04 ]
↑の続きです。
Have modern Japanese society, culture, and language somehow completed their development and reached a state of perfection? Must we protect them from contamination by the new ideas and new blood that a wave of foreign immigration would bring? Few people would dare to make such a claim directly. There are, however, plenty of people who would express almost the same idea in different words: "I don't mind foreigners' coming here to live as long as they're willing to do things the Japanese way." That would mean turning their backs on their native cultures, essentially trying to forget everything that had happened in their lives until the moment they stepped off the plane onto Japanese soil. As well as being nearly impossible, such a complete abandonment of their cultures would be a waste of valuable life experiences.
The bottom line is that immigration can enrich everybody or divide everybody, depending on how it's handled. If we look down on foreigners because they don't know how to do things "in the Japanese way," we'll keep a distance between them and us, and that will help nobody. In that scenario, there will be a two-tiered society, with foreigners likely to be on the lower level, doing most of the work, and Japanese on the upper level, telling them what to do.
259 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/21(火) 23:26:40 ]
最後です。
The alternative is to accept foreigners for what they are: different people with different ways of thinking and acting. The key here is understanding that "different" doesn't necessarily mean "worse" or "better," just "different." We can celebrate the differences instead of being afraid of them. Some moves in this direction are being made, such as the huge annual samba festival in the Asakusa area of Tokyo. Who knows? Perhaps in a few hundred years, Japanese culture will have evolved to the point where samba is as much a Japanese tradition as sumo and flower-arranging.
So how did this Saint Nicholas of Asia Minor become the Santa Claus that we see at Christmas? Saint Nicholas is said to have died in the middle of the 4th century on December 6, a date which later became a holiday called Saint Nicholas Day. The story of Saint Nicholas slowly spread across Europe after his death and people in several different countries began to celebrate this holiday. It was a day for giving presents to others. Holland, a nation that became powerful through its sea trade, placed great importance on celebrating Saint Nicolas Day. プロビジョン２レッスン７の２よろしくお願いします。
①As you know,Japan imports not only wheat and beef but also other agricultural products. ②Japan also imports some industrial products. ③The water that is used in making such imported product is called"virtual water". ④Please look at Figure 1,which shows how much virtual water is used in various products. ⑤You can see that corn and soybeans need a large amount of water. ⑥Most of these crops are used as feed for cattle raised in Japan. ⑦Figure 2 shows the countries from which we are importing virtual water. ⑧As you can see,we are importing as much as 64 billion cubic meters in one year. ⑨This is equal to two-thirds of the total use of regular"real" water in Japan.
That night, another teacher came to our room, holding an envelope. "Boys," he shouted. "I've just bought 13 tickets to the Senators-Tigers game. Anybody want to go?" There were shouts of happiness. On the way to the ball park, we made a short stop at the Lincoln Memorial. For onen long moment, I stared at the statue of Lincoln in the warm yellon light, recalling that line."...this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom..."
In his life, Lincoln said that freedom is not free. Every time the color of people's skin keeps them out of a park or a golf club, the fight for freedom begins again.
どなたか和訳お願いします
282 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/25(土) 12:35:01 ]
長いのですが、よろしくおねがいします！
Vivid Reading Lesson5 A Run for Women's Equality
Japan sent 312 athletes to she Olympics in athens in 2004. Among the thosen athletes, 141 were male and 171 famale. For the first time in Japanese history, women outnumbered men. The prosperity of women's sport today is the result of a women who made a desperate effort to win an Olympic medal for back in 1928. It was Hitomi Kinue ,who eas the silver medal winner in the 800-meter race in the 9th Olympic Games held in Amsterdam. Hitomi was born in 1907. At the age of 16, she took part in an athletic meet held in okayama Prefecture. She entered the long jump and set a women's national record of 4.67 meters. It was this that led her to become an athlete . In 1926, when she was 19, she became a newspaper reporter. Four months later, she took part in the Women's World Games in Gothenburg, Sweden as the only Japanese femal athlete. Shw competed in many races and did well. This surprised athletes from around the world.
As can be seen they are rather primitive and unrealistic in the eye of present-day anatomical knowledge of the human body. These anatomy figures do not include the brain. The author of the oldest Chinese medical book “Nei Ching”did not describe any function of the brain either. Instead of the brain, the above described 12 internal organs, particularly 5 relatively solid internal organs: namely, the liver, heart, spleen, kidney, and 5 hollow organs, gall bladder, small intestine, stomach, large intestine, urinary bladder, are considered to be the causes of the mental processes of a human being. Therefore, various mental diseases are considered to be due to the abnormal functions of the internal organs belonging to one or more than one of the specific five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. On the other hand, the presently known Chinese character for the brain, also means “mental agony,”“mental process,”or“mental ability,”and it is closely related with anatomy and function of the brain. The left half means “muscle”or “body tissue”. The upper half of the right side of the Chinese character represents “convolutions of brain”. The lower half of the right side of the character indicates the top view of skull. Finally, the projection on the top represents remaining bone of the nose. However, the word brain in Chinese characters cannot be found in the oldest etymological dictionary Shou-Wen-Zi (説文解字) written by Hsu Shen (許慎). He began the work in A.D. 100 and completed it in A.D. 121. Since the book supposedly covers all the Chinese characters known at that time, the presently known Chinese character for brain must have been invented in later centuries.
People today would think that Hitomi was free from any concerns and was on her way to success. On the contrary, she was severely criticized. In those days people had a prejudice against women who did sports. Women who showed too much of their body and compeyed in races were not thought to be decent. This caused Hitomi to worry about the future of women athletes. In 1928, women were allowed to participate in track and field events at the Olympics for the first time in history. Japan sent Hitomi to Amsterdam. She was the only women athlete from Japan. She was the world record holder in the in the women's 100-meter race at that time. She took part in the 100-meter race but she eas beaten in the senifinals. She thought that her good example at the Olympics would be the key to freeing people in those days from prejudice against women athletes. She decided to try the 800-meter race. After the 100-meter race, she thought to herself, "I have never run the 800-meter race, and I don't think I have enough energy for it. Hpwever,I have the will to try. I will run until I collapse."
290 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/26(日) 11:28:46 ]
The poor People's Disease Malaria is an infectious disease that is widespread in the tropical and subtropical parts of the world. Over 40 percent of the world's population lives in areas where malaria is found. More than 300 million people suffer from malaria, and about one and a half million people die from it each year. At least 80 percent of malaria sufferers live in Africa, where the disease is the cause of 30 percent of admissions to hospitals. Pregnant women and children under five are the most vulnerable, and at least 800,000 African children die from malaria every year. The economic cost of malaria to Africa is estimated to be US＄12 billion a year, though it is difficult to get exact figures. Malaria is caused by a parasite. A parasite is a plant or animal that lives in or on the body of another animal or plant and obtains its food from it. It is thought that the malaria parasite evolved with humans and has always been with us. The parasite is carried by the female of a particular genus of mosquito called the Anopheles. The disease is transmitted when an infected person is bitten by a female Anopheles mosquito which then bites another person. The parasite in the blood of the first person is taken in by the mosquito, survives in the mosquito's saliva, and is then transferred to the blood of the second person. The parasite is then carried in the blood to the liver, where it breeds. After a few days it returns to the blood, where it attacks red blood cells, causing fever and perhaps damage to vital organs, sometimes resulting in death. Malaria can usually be cured. In particularly bad areas, people continuously become infected and gradually become immune to the disease.
Who are the people who join these groups? Do you think they are crazy? Maybe in a way they are. But they mostly are people much like you and me. Their members include doctors,lawyers,businessmen,housewives,and students. They come from all economic backgrounds. And they can be found in all societies.
So why do they join these groups?The reasons are many. Most members feel that their lives are empty and have little value. They are searching for something that will add meaning to their lives. Many have social or personal problems that they are having trouble dealing with. For various reasons,mainstrem religions do not give them the answers they are looking for.
Others feel that society is failing. They see wars,famines,poverty and other social ills as problems that we create,but can't solve. Many are New Age devotees. They come to believe that certain dates,or the world,or at least of society as we know it. In the case of Heaven's Gate, for example,they thought thataliens would come from space to greet them!
The cult gives them a sense of belonging,of family. They can join with others that have many of the same thoughhts as themselves. However,it is often not until they have actually joined the group that they find out what the group is really control and fear have done their work.
長くて申し訳ありませんがどなたか和訳お願いします。 （ ）内には以下のどれか一つが共通して入ります。 ①people who speak a different language ②people removing obstructions ③people with disabilities ④people who are physically strong and healthy
The term barrier-free has been adopted by the japanese to define a state of being that is free of barriers， and to describe the process of removing barriers in order to make life more comfortable. Increasingly，the term barrier-free has been applied to the creation of living and working environments where （ ） can have free access，and where physical barriers to buildings，shops，and public institutions， such as steps and narrow doorwaus，do not prevent them from using these facilities. To remove these barriers，local governments and construction companies work in partnership to help users， and new laws have meant that the rights of ( ) are protected. On the other hand，( ) also face invisible or symbolic barriers which are probably more difficult to overcome because theyare often not recognized by even the most sensitive of able-bodied citizens. Invisible barriers can be divided into three categories : institutional，social and psychological. Firstly，institutional barriers can be seen as those where the system puts a person at a disadvantage. For example，there have been cases where disabled children were not allowed to enter their local elementary school because the school decided that they could not satisfactorily interact with other pupils. Secondly，there are social barriers that exist for disabled people. The lack of information available to( ) means that in many instances they find it difficult to integrate into society. For example，many blind people are unable to enjoy museums because they lack Braille captions for their displays，and ‘touch and feel’exhibits are still rare. 続きます
Finally，many proglems for people with disabilities originate in the prejudices and psychological barriers erected， mostly unconsciously，by able-bodied people. This stems mainly from a fundamental lack of knowledge about and misunderstanding of disabled people’s needs，and results in discrimination. This is the most important and most difficult barrier to overcome，and can only be remedied by the education of able-bodied people as to the needs of the disabled-bodied community. Without getting rid of these prejudices，a truly ‘barrier-free’society will not be realized.
Part2 This grid, known as Hermann's Grid, is an example of how contrast affects color perception. Imagine the Hermann Grid as a map of city streets; most crossings appear to be gray, but when you look closely at any individual crossing, you will see that it is white. The streets, on the other hand, appear white no matter where you look. This illusion depends on high contrast black and white areas to fool the eyes into perceiving gray areas. The perception of gray crossings is a result of local brightness control in the retina. Cells in your retina set the brightness of an image by the intensity of the light signal. But your brain can set the brightness of an image in many small parts. Setting brightness in small parts lets you see a wide range of both bright and dark parts in the same image. In Zollner's illusion of direction, parallel lines appear to be bent when other lines cross them at an angle. The illusion disappears when the image is held far enough away from the eye to distinguish the short crossing lines. Some scientists say that face recognition is performed by a particular section of the brain. To the brain, this image of Lincoln's face looks normal when viewed upside down, but when turned around it becomes distorted. This is because our brains recognize a face only when it is right side up. When it is presented upside down, the brain no longer recognizes it as a face but rather as an object, and this is why we do not respond to its distortions.
上の続きです Part3 Let us think about the various functions of the brain. Once, photographs of Americans expressing various emotions were shown to the Fore people in New Guinea. They readily recognized most of the expressions of anger, happiness, sadness, disgust, fear and surprise. These six emotions are themselves universal. Some emotional triggers are universal as well. For example, when something unexpectedly comes into your field of vision, you will be frightened. But most emotional triggers are learned. The smell of newly mowed hay will generate different emotions in someone who spent peaceful childhood summers in the country and someone who was forced to work long hours on a farm. Once such an emotional association is made, it is difficult to unmake it. But we can learn to manage our emotions better. Another interesting thing is the relationship between the brain and fear. For example, many people fear big snakes and run away because they feel danger. But a baby usually doesn't feel afraid of a big snake, even if he or she is placed right next to it. This may have something to do with the primary brain and its fear response to such dangers. It seems likely that there is a tendency in the primary brain to fear natural phenomena that can hurt us, but no tendency to learn to fear something that will not. But this tendency is influenced by social experience. Therefore, there is a good chance the baby will begin to fear snakes after watching other humans react to them.
Vivid Reading Lesson5 A Run for Women's Equality Resson3です 明日までに訳さないといけないので、急ではありますがどなたか宜しくお願い致します。
The women's 800-meter race began. Hitomi ran fast. She was in third place 200 meter from the goal. Just then, something happened. Another athlete bumped into Hitomi. She began to fall behind. Hoewver, she wouldn't be beaten. She got her balance again and ran desperately. In no time, she was running close behind Lina Radke from Germany, wha was leading the race. Radke looked back and was surprised to find Hitomi close behind her. She ran faster and Hitomi followed her. They reached the goal one after the other. Radke won the goal and Hitomi the silver. The two were too exhausted to remain standing. The New York Evening Post printed an article titled, "A mistaken idea about Japanese women." It said that nothing surprised them but Hitomi Kinue, who had won a silver medal in the women's 800-meter race. They said, "We still think of Japanese women as beautifully dressed in kimono, and busy with flower arrangements and tea ceremonies. Hitomi Kinue changed out view of Japanese women. We had had a wrong view of them."
In some respects the whisperers are right. Wen foreigners first arrive, they usually can't speak Japanese and often don't understand how things are done here. However, that doesn't mean that they can't learn both the language and the culture if they're given time and encouragement.
Amid the widespread fear of foreigners, it's worth keeping in mind that everybody on this planet is either an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants. Even the Japanese people had to come from somewhere. Setting creation myths aside, it's safe to say that today's Japanese are themselves descended from long-ago immigrants from the north, west, and south.
313 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/28(火) 21:03:55 ]
↑の続きです。
Have modern Japanese society, culture, and language somehow completed their development and reached a state of perfection? Must we protect them from contamination by the new ideas and new blood that a wave of foreign immigration would bring? Few people would dare to make such a claim directly. There are, however, plenty of people who would express almost the same idea in different words: "I don't mind foreigners' coming here to live as long as they're willing to do things the Japanese way." That would mean turning their backs on their native cultures, essentially trying to forget everything that had happened in their lives until the moment they stepped off the plane onto Japanese soil. As well as being nearly impossible, such a complete abandonment of their cultures would be a waste of valuable life experiences.
The bottom line is that immigration can enrich everybody or divide everybody, depending on how it's handled. If we look down on foreigners because they don't know how to do things "in the Japanese way," we'll keep a distance between them and us, and that will help nobody. In that scenario, there will be a two-tiered society, with foreigners likely to be on the lower level, doing most of the work, and Japanese on the upper level, telling them what to do.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle divided human intellectual activities into three kinds : practical, artistic, and theoretical. When we concern ourselves consciously with language at all, this concern is usually of a practical sort, directed at learning or teaching a language, deciding what turn of phrase to use in an important letter, urging a school board to adopt or not to adopt the teaching of language in elementary schools. Occasionally we consider language in the sphere of art, when we read, interpret, or perhaps create a poem or a novel. These are works that embody in the medium of language the esthetic values of the individual or the community.
〈語句〉 Aristotle アリストテレス concern ourselves with～ ～に関心を持つ turn of phrase 言い回し a school board 教育委員会 esthetic 美的
In further experiments he found that the birds also made allowance for the sun's daily movement across the sky as it rises in the east and sets in the west.
When a driver stops in front of a house in any neighborhood and blows the horn to attract the attention of someone inside the house, it is thoughtless and rude. Why should ten people have to brother to look out the windows of ten houses to find out the horn is nothing to do with team? As a matter of fact, I do not think there necessary for a driver to blow the horn. よければ和訳お願いします
332 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/29(水) 19:31:17 ]
A Run for Women's Equality です 明日までに訳さないといけないので、急ではありますがどなたか宜しくお願い致します。
The women's 800-meter race began. Hitomi ran fast. She was in third place 200 meter from the goal. Just then, something happened. Another athlete bumped into Hitomi. She began to fall behind. Hoewver, she wouldn't be beaten. She got her balance again and ran desperately. In no time, she was running close behind Lina Radke from Germany, wha was leading the race. Radke looked back and was surprised to find Hitomi close behind her. She ran faster and Hitomi followed her. They reached the goal one after the other. Radke won the goal and Hitomi the silver. The two were too exhausted to remain standing. The New York Evening Post printed an article titled, "A mistaken idea about Japanese women." It said that nothing surprised them but Hitomi Kinue, who had won a silver medal in the women's 800-meter race. They said, "We still think of Japanese women as beautifully dressed in kimono, and busy with flower arrangements and tea ceremonies. Hitomi Kinue changed out view of Japanese women. We had had a wrong view of them."
I remember vividly the last time I cried. I was twelve years old, in the seventh grade, and I was trying out for the junior high school basketball team.I walked into the gymnasium;there was a piece of paper on the bulletin board. It was a cut list.The seventh-grade coach had put it up on the board. The boys on the list were still on the team;they could keep coming to practices. The boys who were not on the list had been cut;they were no longer needed. My name was not on the list.
336 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/29(水) 20:53:27 ]
I did not know the cut was coming that day. I stood and I stared at the list.The coach had not composed it with very much care;the names of the best players were at the top of the list, and the other accepted members were listed below.I kept looking at the bottom of the list, hoping that if I looked hard enough , my name would miraculously appear there.
337 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/29(水) 20:57:10 ]
I tried to stay calm as I walked out of the gym and out of the school , but when I got home I began to sob.I could not stop. For the first time in my life, I was told officially that I was not good enough. Sports meant everything to boys of that age;if you were on the team, even as a substitute, it put you in the desirable group. If you were not on the team , you were almost worthless.
I had tried desperately in practice, but the coach never noticed me. It did not matter how hard I tried;he did not want me on the team. I knewthat when I went to school the next morning I would have to face the boys who had not been cut -- the boys who were on the list , who were sitll on the team , who had been judged worthy while I had been judged unworthy.
338 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/29(水) 21:01:32 ]
Many years have passed since then , but I still remember that day. And a curious thing has happened:in traveling around the country, I have found that a large number of successful men share that same memory -- the memory of beeing cut from a sports team as a boy. I do not know how the mind works in matters like this;I do not know what happened in my head following that day when I was cut. But I know that for all of my life since that day, I have done more work than I have had to , taken more assignments than I have had to , worked more hours than I have had to. Does all of my effort come from a determination never to be cut again-- never to be told that I am not good enough again? I do not know, but I know the feeling is there.Apparently it is there in a lot of other men, too.
>>310さんじゃないんですが、訳お願いします 同じ文章ばかりでごめんなさい！ The women's 800-meter race began. Hitomi ran fast. She was in third place 200 meter from the goal. Just then, something happened. Another athlete bumped into Hitomi. She began to fall behind. Hoewver, she wouldn't be beaten. She got her balance again and ran desperately. In no time, she was running close behind Lina Radke from Germany, wha was leading the race. Radke looked back and was surprised to find Hitomi close behind her. She ran faster and Hitomi followed her. They reached the goal one after the other. Radke won the goal and Hitomi the silver. The two were too exhausted to remain standing. The New York Evening Post printed an article titled, "A mistaken idea about Japanese women." It said that nothing surprised them but Hitomi Kinue, who had won a silver medal in the women's 800-meter race. They said, "We still think of Japanese women as beautifully dressed in kimono, and busy with flower arrangements and tea ceremonies. Hitomi Kinue changed out view of Japanese women. We had had a wrong view of them."
349 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/10/30(木) 21:31:14 ]
どなたか訳をお願いします。
The year 1963 was the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was truly a great year in American history and in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite opposition from the governors of Alabama and Mississippi, the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, authorized federal marshals to help a few black students to enter at the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama. “Bull” Connor, the head of the police department in Birmingham, Alabama, ordered his officers to turn fire hoses and police dogs on young demonstrators; as television cameras captured this horrible scene, the nation gasped in disbelief and revulsion. Medgar Evers, a thirty-seven-year-old NAACP field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi, was murdered on his front porch on June 12. Riots occurred throughout the summer. The nation stood on the brink of racial civil war. It needed a prophet who could help see through the smoke left by gunpowder and bombs. Martin Luther King, Jr., who published Why We Can’t Wait at this time, was the prophet of the hour. Although many of the phrases and themes that appear in “I Have a Dream” had often been repeated by Dr. King, this is his most well-known speech. He delivered it before the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, as the keynote address of the March on Washington, D. C., for Civil Rights. Television Cameras allowed the entire nation to hear and see him call for justice and freedom. Mrs. Coretta King once said, “At that moment it seemed as if the Kingdom of God appeared. But it only lasted for a moment.”
