Japanese–English parallel text
ハイデッガー博士の実験
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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かの非常に奇特な人物である年老いたハイデッガー博士は、あるとき四人の尊崇すべき友人たちを書斎に招いた。
That very singular man, old Dr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study.
白いあごひげを蓄えた三人の紳士――メドボーン氏、キリグルー大佐、ガスコイン氏――と、ウィカリー未亡人という名のやつれた貴婦人がいた。
There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly.
彼らはいずれも、人生において不運に見舞われてきた憂鬱な老いた者たちであり、とうの昔に墓に入っていなかったことこそが最大の不運であった。
They were all melancholy old creatures, who had been unfortunate in life, and whose greatest misfortune it was that they were not long ago in their graves.
メドボーン氏は、壮年期には繁盛した商人であったが、狂気じみた投機によって全財産を失い、今では物乞いと大差ない有様であった。
Mr. Medbourne, in the vigor of his age, had been a prosperous merchant, but had lost his all by a frantic speculation, and was now little better than a mendicant.
キリグルー大佐は、罪深き快楽の追求に最盛期と健康、そして財産を浪費し、その結果、痛風をはじめとする心身のさまざまな責め苦の群れを生み出すこととなった。
Colonel Killigrew had wasted his best years, and his health and substance, in the pursuit of sinful pleasures, which had given birth to a brood of pains, such as the gout, and divers other torments of soul and body.
ガスコイン氏は落ちぶれた政治家であり、悪名高い男であったが、少なくとも時が彼を現代の世の記憶から葬り去り、悪名高き存在から無名の存在へと変えるまではそうであった。
Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame, or at least had been so till time had buried him from the knowledge of the present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous.
ウィカリー未亡人について言えば、昔は大層な美女であったと伝えられている。しかし、町の名士たちの反感を買うこととなったある醜聞の数々のせいで、久しく深い隠遁生活を送っていた。
As for the Widow Wycherly, tradition tells us that she was a great beauty in her day; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion, on account of certain scandalous stories which had prejudiced the gentry of the town against her.
特筆すべき事実として、これら三人の老紳士――メドボーン氏、キリグルー大佐、ガスコイン氏――の誰もが、若き日にはウィカリー未亡人の愛人であり、かつては彼女のために互いの喉笛をかき切りそうになったことさえあったのだ。
It is a circumstance worth mentioning that each of these three old gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, were early lovers of the Widow Wycherly, and had once been on the point of cutting each other’s throats for her sake.
そして先へ進む前に、ハイデッガー博士と四人の気味の悪い客人たちは、時に少々正気を失っていると思われていたとだけほのめかしておこう――現在の困難や悲惨な追憶に悩まされた老人には、決して珍しくないことなのだが。
And, before proceeding further, I will merely hint that Dr. Heidegger and all his foul guests were sometimes thought to be a little beside themselves,—as is not unfrequently the case with old people, when worried either by present troubles or woful recollections.
「親愛なる旧友諸君」とハイデッガー博士は、彼らに着席を促しながら言った。「私がこの書斎で楽しんでいる小さな実験の一つに、ぜひ諸君の手を借りたいのだ」
“My dear old friends,” said Dr. Heidegger, motioning them to be seated, “I am desirous of your assistance in one of those little experiments with which I amuse myself here in my study.”
世の噂がすべて真実であるならば、ハイデッガー博士の書斎は実に奇妙な場所に違いなかった。そこは蜘蛛の巣の花綱で飾られ、古風な埃を散りばめた、薄暗く時代がかった部屋であった。
If all stories were true, Dr. Heidegger’s study must have been a very curious place. It was a dim, old-fashioned chamber, festooned with cobwebs, and besprinkled with antique dust.
壁の周りにはいくつかのオーク材の本棚が立ち並び、下段には巨大な二折判やブラックレターの四折判の列が並び、上段には小さな羊皮紙装丁の十二折判が置かれていた。
Around the walls stood several oaken bookcases, the lower shelves of which were filled with rows of gigantic folios and black-letter quartos, and the upper with little parchment-covered duodecimos.
中央の本棚の上にはヒポクラテスの青銅の胸像があり、ある筋によれば、ハイデッガー博士は診療において困難な症例にぶつかるたび、それと相談するのが常であったという。
Over the central bookcase was a bronze bust of Hippocrates, with which, according to some authorities, Dr. Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations in all difficult cases of his practice.
部屋の最も薄暗い隅には、背が高く細長いオーク材の戸棚が扉を半開きにして立っており、その中には骸骨がそれとなく姿を現していた。
In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton.
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