Japanese–English parallel text
じょうだんです
It Is a Joke
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朝の七時です。ベルグさんは階段のところに立っています。
It is seven o’clock in the morning. Mrs Berg stands at the stairs.
「これがあなたの仕事です」と言います。「全部です。熱い水を使ってください」
“This is your job,” she says. “All of them. Use hot water.”
「階段はいくつありますか?」
“How many stairs are there?”
「今夜、あなたの手が言います」
“Tonight your hands can say.”
八時です。ニーナは二十だん目をそうじしています。
It is eight o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair twenty.
十時です。ニーナは五十だん目をそうじしています。
It is ten o’clock. Nina is cleaning stair fifty.
このホテルは小さいです。でも、階段がとてもたくさんあります。
This hotel is small, but it has very many stairs.
マックスが入ります。毛に雪があります。
Max comes in. There is snow in his hair.
きれいな階段を上がります。今、きれいではありません。
He walks up the clean stairs. Now they are not clean.
十だん目にすわります。
He sits on stair ten.
ベルグさんはつくえのうしろから出ます。
Mrs Berg comes out from behind her desk.
マックスを見ます。マックスはベルグさんを見ます。
She looks at Max. Max looks at Mrs Berg.
ニーナは仕事を止めます。これを知っています。サラとマックスは毎日これをします。
Nina stops working. She knows this. Sara and Max do this every day.
サラはいつも先に止まります。
Sara always stops first.
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