Japanese–English parallel text
ジェスがアナに町を見せます
Jess Shows Ana the Town
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ウォルターは答えません。一分後、手をおろします。立ちます。窓を開けます。けむりが出ます。
Walter doesn’t answer. After a minute, he takes his hands from his face. He gets up. He opens the window, and the smoke goes out.
「もっとパンを焼きます」と言います。「バスは五時十分前です」。そして働きます。火の話はしません。アナも聞きません。でも、一晩中考えます。
“Make more rolls,” he says. “The bus is at ten to five.” And he works. He doesn’t say a word about the fire. Ana doesn’t ask. But she thinks about it all night.
昼すぎ、アナは休みです。かいだんをくだります。台所にジェスがいます。ゆかにかばんを置きます。くびにヘッドホンがあります。
In the afternoon, Ana has a free day. She comes down the stairs. Jess is in the kitchen. She has her school bag on the floor and her headphones round her neck.
「ジェス、いちばはどこですか」とアナは聞きます。「上着を買いたいです。私の上着は温かくないです」。
“Jess, where is the market?” Ana asks. “I want to buy a jacket. My jacket is not warm.”
ジェスはアナの上着を見ます。「これは上着ではありません。シャツです。行きましょう。町を見せます。とても小さいです。十分で行きます」。
Jess looks at Ana’s jacket. “That’s not a jacket. That’s a shirt with ideas. Come on. I can show you the town. It’s very small. It takes ten minutes.”
二人はBridge Streetを歩きます。通りのおわりに、大きな広場があります。古い石の建物があります。「あれは町役場です」とジェスは言います。「ここはいちばの広場です。いちばは火曜日と土曜日です」。
They walk up Bridge Street. At the top, there is a big square with an old stone building. “That’s the town hall,” Jess says. “And this is the market square. The market is on Tuesdays and Saturdays.”
今日は火曜日です。いちばに人がたくさんいます。アナは温かい緑の上着を買います。十二ポンドです。ジェスは言います。「とてもへんです」。アナは言います。「とても温かいです」。
Today is Tuesday. There are a lot of people in the market. Ana buys a warm green jacket. It is twelve pounds. Jess says it is very ugly. Ana says it is very warm.
それから、雨が始まります。風がつめたいです。「Hollin Bridgeへようこそ」とジェスは言います。「ここは一年に三百日、雨がふります」。
Then it starts to rain. The wind is cold. “Welcome to Hollin Bridge,” Jess says. “It rains here three hundred days a year.”
二人は川へ行きます。ジェスはアナに古い石の橋を見せます。「町の名前はこの橋からです。Hollin Bridgeです。とても古いです」。
They go down to the river. Jess shows Ana the old stone bridge. “The town’s name is from this bridge. Hollin Bridge. It’s very old.”
橋から川の道を歩きます。パン屋のあと、道は左に曲がります。うんがへ行きます。うんがに、長くて細い船がたくさんあります。いろいろな色です。
From the bridge, they walk along the river path. After the bakery, the path goes left, to the canal. On the canal, there are long, thin boats in many colours.
「船に人がすんでいます」とジェスは言います。「一年中です。雨の日も雪の日もです。へんな人たちです」。
“People live on these boats,” Jess says. “All year. In the rain, in the snow. I think they’re crazy.”
アナは船が好きです。赤い船の屋根に花があります。青い船の屋根に自転車があります。濃い緑の船は静かです。屋根に小さな茶色い紙があります。雨でぬれています。
Ana likes the boats. A red boat has flowers on the roof. A blue boat has a bicycle on the roof. A dark green boat is very quiet. On its roof, there is a small brown square of paper. It is wet from the rain.
アナは少しの間、見ます。それから、ジェスが話します。アナはジェスを見ます。紙のことはもう考えません。
Ana looks at it for a second. Then Jess says something, and Ana looks at Jess. She doesn’t think about the paper again.
「アナ、かぞくはいますか」とジェスは聞きます。
“Have you got a family, Ana?” Jess asks.
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