Japanese–English parallel text
すばらしい職人
The Wonderful Artisan
James Baldwin (1841–1925)
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Opening the reader…
一 ペルディクス
I. PERDIX.
アテナイがまだ小さな町だったころ、その城壁の中にダイダロスという男が住んでいた。木や石、金属を扱う腕前は、これまで知られている中で一番だった。
While Athens was still only a small city there lived within its walls a man named Daedalus who was the most skillful worker in wood and stone and metal that had ever been known.
人々にもっと良い家の建て方を教えたのは彼だった。扉にちょうつがいをつける方法や、柱で屋根を支える方法も教えた。
It was he who taught the people how to build better houses and how to hang their doors on hinges and how to support the roofs with pillars and posts.
彼は物をのりで貼り合わせた最初の人だった。下げ振りと大工用ドリルを発明した。船に帆柱を立て、ロープで帆を張る方法を船乗りたちに教えたのも彼だった。
He was the first to fasten things together with glue; he invented the plumb-line and the auger; and he showed seamen how to put up masts in their ships and how to rig the sails to them with ropes.
彼はアテナイの若い王アイゲウスのために石の宮殿を建てた。そして町の中央にある岩山の上に立つアテナ神殿を美しく飾った。
He built a stone palace for AEgeus, the young king of Athens, and beautified the Temple of Athena which stood on the great rocky hill in the middle of the city.
ダイダロスにはペルディクスという甥がいた。少年だったころに引き取り、大工の仕事を教えていた。しかしペルディクスは物覚えがとてもよく、すぐに多くの知識で師匠を追い越した。
Daedalus had a nephew named Perdix whom he had taken when a boy to teach the trade of builder. But Perdix was a very apt learner, and soon surpassed his master in the knowledge of many things.
彼の目はいつも周りで何が起きているかを見つめていた。野や森の知恵も学んだ。ある日海辺を歩いていると、大きな魚の背骨を拾った。彼はそこから、のこぎりを発明した。
His eyes were ever open to see what was going on about him, and he learned the lore of the fields and the woods. Walking one day by the sea, he picked up the backbone of a great fish, and from it he invented the saw.
ある鳥が木の幹に穴をあけるのを見て、彼はのみを作って使う方法を学んだ。
Seeing how a certain bird carved holes in the trunks of trees, he learned how to make and use the chisel.
それから、陶芸家が粘土をこねる時に使うろくろを発明した。また、先が二つに分かれた棒を使って円を描くための最初のコンパスを作った。他にも多くの珍しくて役に立つ物を考え出した。
Then he invented the wheel which potters use in molding clay; and he made of a forked stick the first pair of compasses for drawing circles; and he studied out many other curious and useful things.
ダイダロスは、その少年がとても賢く、進んで学び、熱心に働くのを見て喜ばなかった。
Daedalus was not pleased when he saw that the lad was so apt and wise, so ready to learn, and so eager to do.
「このままいけば、あいつはわしよりも偉い男になるだろう。あいつの名は人々に覚えられ、わしの名は忘れられてしまう」と彼はつぶやいた。
“If he keeps on in this way,” he murmured, “he will be a greater man than I; his name will be remembered, and mine will be forgotten.”
毎日仕事の間、ダイダロスはこのことばかり考え続けた。やがて彼の心は、若いペルディクスへの憎しみでいっぱいになった。
Day after day, while at his work, Daedalus pondered over this matter, and soon his heart was filled with hatred towards young Perdix.
ある朝、二人がアテナ神殿の外壁に飾りをつけていた時、ダイダロスは甥に狭い足場の上へ行くよう命じた。そこは神殿が立つ切り立った崖の端の、高い場所に吊るされていた。
One morning when the two were putting up an ornament on the outer wall of Athena’s temple, Daedalus bade his nephew go out on a narrow scaffold which hung high over the edge of the rocky cliff whereon the temple stood.
そして少年が言われた通りにすると、金づちの一撃で足場の留め具を外すのはとても簡単だった。
Then, when the lad obeyed, it was easy enough, with a blow of a hammer, to knock the scaffold from its fastenings.
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