Japanese–English parallel text

Das Seefest

The Lake Festival

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レモネード

Lemonade

土曜日の朝、台所はレモンのにおいがします。テーブルの上にも、いすの上にも、ゆかの上にも、どこにもレモンがあります。

On Saturday morning, the kitchen smells of lemons. There are lemons everywhere: on the table, on the chairs, on the floor.

エレナ: ローザは40年間、お祭りのためにレモネードを作ったの。レモンが200こ。さとう、水、すこしのミント。そして、秘密がひとつね

Elena: Rosa made the lemonade for the festival for forty years. Two hundred lemons. Sugar, water, a little mint. And one secret.

「どんな秘密?」

“What secret?”

エレナ: 教えたら、もう秘密じゃないよ

Elena: If I tell you, it’s not a secret.

エレナはレモンをしぼります。しるがめがねにとびます。エレナは笑います。ぼくも笑います。ひさしぶりのいい朝です。

She squeezes a lemon, and the juice jumps onto her glasses. She laughs. I laugh too. It is the first good morning in a long time.

「今夜のお祭りに来る?」

“Will you come to the festival tonight?”

エレナ: もちろん。わたしにはさいごのお祭りだから。だれかがレモネードを売らなきゃ。トムはイタリア語でお金をかぞえられないでしょ

Elena: Of course. It’s my last festival. Somebody has to sell the lemonade. You can’t count money in Italian.

「さいごのお祭り?」

“Your last festival?”

エレナは答えません。つぎのレモンを切ります。さっきよりすこし強く切ります。

She doesn’t answer. She cuts the next lemon. A little harder than before.

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