Japanese–English parallel text
クジラののどはどうしてせまくなったか
How the Whale Got His Throat
Rudyard Kipling
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むかしむかし、海の中にね、いとしい人よ、一頭のクジラがいて、魚を食べていたんだ。
In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.
ヒトデもダツも食べたし、カニもカレイも食べた。ヒラメもウグイも、エイとその相棒も食べた。サバもカワカマスも、そして本当にぐるぐる回るウナギも食べた。
He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel.
海で見つかるすべての魚を、大きな口で食べたんだ。こんなふうにね! とうとう海には小さな魚が一匹しか残らなくなった。それは小さな「かしこい魚」で、危なくないように、クジラの右耳の少し後ろを泳いでいた。
All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way.
そのとき、クジラは尾びれで立ち上がって言った。「腹がへったよ」。すると小さなかしこい魚は、小さなかしこい声で言った。「気高く寛大なクジラ様、人間を召し上がったことはございますか?」
Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ‘I’m hungry.’ And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’
「ないな」とクジラは言った。「どんな味がするんだい?」
‘No,’ said the Whale. ‘What is it like?’
「おいしいですよ」と小さなかしこい魚は言った。「おいしいですが、ごつごつしています」
‘Nice,’ said the small ‘Stute Fish. ‘Nice but nubbly.’
「じゃあ、少し連れてきておくれ」とクジラは言って、尾びれで海を泡立たせた。
‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.
「一度に一人で十分ですよ」とかしこい魚は言った。
‘One at a time is enough,’ said the ‘Stute Fish.
「北緯五十度、西経四十度(そこは魔法の場所です)まで泳いでいけば、海の真ん中でいかだの上に座っている人が見つかります。青いズボンを一丁と、ズボンつり(ズボンつりを忘れてはいけませんよ、いとしい人よ)と、折りたたみナイフしか身につけていない難破船の船乗りです。公平のために言っておきますが、その男は『無限の知恵と勇気を持つ男』ですよ」
‘If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’
そこでクジラは、泳げるかぎりの速さで、北緯五十度、西経四十度まで泳ぎに泳いだ。そして海の真ん中で、青いズボンと、ズボンつり(特にズボンつりを覚えておいてね、いとしい人よ)と、折りたたみナイフしか身につけずに、いかだの上で足の指を水につけている、たった一人ぼっちの難破船の船乗りを見つけた。
So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he could swim, and on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes in the water.
(船乗りはお母さんから水遊びの許可をもらっていたんだ。そうでなければ決してそんなことはしなかっただろう。なにしろ無限の知恵と勇気を持つ男だったからね。)
(He had his mummy’s leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.)
それからクジラは、口を大きく大きく開けて、尾びれに届きそうなくらいに開いた。そして難破船の船乗りと、座っていたいかだと、青いズボンと、(忘れてはいけない)ズボンつりと、折りたたみナイフを丸ごと飲み込んだ。自分の温かくて暗いお腹の戸棚の中へ全部飲み込み、それから口を鳴らした。こんなふうにね。そして尾びれで三回くるくる回った。
Then the Whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail, and he swallowed the shipwrecked Mariner, and the raft he was sitting on, and his blue canvas breeches, and the suspenders (which you must not forget), and the jack-knife—He swallowed them all down into his warm, dark, inside cup-boards, and then he smacked his lips—so, and turned round three times on his tail.
だが、無限の知恵と勇気を持つ男である船乗りは、クジラの温かくて暗いお腹の戸棚に本当に入ってしまうとすぐに、ドタバタ踏み鳴らし、飛び跳ね、ドンドンたたき、ぶつかり、跳ね回り、踊り狂い、ガタガタ音を立て、ガチャンと鳴らし、殴ったりかんだり、跳んだりはい回ったり、うろついて遠ぼえし、跳び上がっては倒れ、泣いてはため息をつき、はいずり回ってわめき散らし、大股で歩いては飛び跳ね、踊ってはいけないところで船乗りのダンスを踊った。クジラは本当にひどく不快な気分になった。
But as soon as the Mariner, who was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, found himself truly inside the Whale’s warm, dark, inside cup-boards, he stumped and he jumped and he thumped and he bumped, and he pranced and he danced, and he banged and he clanged, and he hit and he bit, and he leaped and he creeped, and he prowled and he howled, and he hopped and he dropped, and he cried and he sighed, and he crawled and he bawled, and he stepped and he lepped, and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn’t, and the Whale felt most unhappy indeed.
(ズボンつりのことを忘れてはいないかい?)
(Have you forgotten the suspenders?)
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