Japanese–English parallel text
ある一時間の物語
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin
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マラード夫人が心臓の病を患っていると知られていたため、彼女の夫の訃報は、できる限り穏やかに伝えるよう細心の注意が払われた。
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.
それを伝えたのは妹のジョセフィーンであり、途切れ途切れの言葉で、半分隠しながら半分明かすような遠回しの暗示だった。夫の友人であるリチャーズもまた、彼女のそばにいた。
It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her.
鉄道事故の知らせが届いたとき、新聞社にいたのは彼であり、「死亡者」の筆頭にブレントリー・マラードの名があったのだ。
It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed.”
彼は二通目の電報によってその事実を確かめる時間だけを取り、これほど慎重でもなく、これほど優しくもない友人がその悲報を届けるのを未然に防ぐため、急いでやって来たのだった。
He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.
彼女は、多くの女性が同じような知らせを聞いた時のように、事の重大さを受け止められない麻痺したような状態で聞くことはなかった。彼女はすぐに、突然の激しい感情の昂ぶりのまま、妹の腕の中で泣き崩れた。
She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.
悲しみの嵐が静まると、彼女は独りで自分の部屋へと去っていった。誰にもついてこさせようとはしなかった。
When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.
開いた窓に向かって、座り心地のよいゆったりとした安楽椅子が置かれていた。彼女はその中に沈み込み、身体にまとわりつき魂にまで及ぶかのような肉体的な疲労に押しつぶされていた。
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.
家の前の広場には、新しい春の命に打ち震える木々の梢が見えた。雨の心地よい気配が空気に漂っていた。階下の通りでは、物売りが声を張り上げて品物を売っていた。
She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares.
誰かが歌う遠くの歌の調べがかすかに届き、無数のスズメが軒先でさえずっていた。
The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.
窓に向かい合う西の空で出逢い重なり合っていた雲の合間から、ところどころ青空が覗いていた。
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.
彼女は椅子のクッションに頭を後ろへもたせかけ、全く身動きもせずに座っていた。ただ、泣き疲れて眠ってしまった子供が夢の中でしゃくり上げ続けるように、喉にせり上がってきたすすり泣きが身体を揺する時だけは別だった。
She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.
彼女は若く、美しく穏やかな顔立ちをしており、その顔つきには抑圧と、ある種の力強ささえもが表れていた。しかし今、その目には鈍い光が宿り、視線はずっと彼方にあるあの青空の切れ間の一つに注がれていた。
She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky.
それは物思いに沈む眼差しではなく、むしろ知的な思考の一時停止を示していた。
It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.
何かが彼女に近づいており、彼女はそれを恐れながら待っていた。それはいったい何なのだろう。彼女には分からなかった。名前をつけるにはあまりにも繊細で、捉えがたいものだった。
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.
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