2018年5月31日木曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today 




若葉冷え 文書改ざん不起訴とか




The cold weather during the verdure seasonー


The case against the Ministry of Finance's falsification of documents


was dropped





From the Latest News

Charges dropped against ex-bureaucrat for alleged document tampering

The Japan Times

KYODO, JIJI

OSAKA – Osaka prosecutors decided Thursday not to indict former top Finance Ministry official Nobuhisa Sagawa for allegedly falsifying documents on a murky land sale that has sparked allegations of cronyism by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration.



2018年5月26日土曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(英英辞典編)
Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary


”Sunshine, warm smiles and a skyline of gently rounded peaks dressed in verdant green meadows and lush forests.”


(From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English


☆Beautiful scenery and fresh expression. Yes, we are now in the midst of this season. I can also hear the wind whispering in the leaves.



2018年5月20日日曜日

英語で書きたい文学の言葉
Impressive Literary Words



「私は時おりこの世に「朝」があり、「夜」があり、「季節」があることが、何か信じられぬ不思議と見える日がある。」



−辻邦生(『霧の廃墟から』より)



”Sometimes I have days that it seems to me incredibly mysterious that there are 'Mornings', 'Nights', and 'Seasons' in this life.”



-Kunio Tsuji(Japanese novelist)






(英訳は管理人の試訳です。)
(English version is my trial translation.)

2018年5月15日火曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today 




風薫る灯台の白海の紺




A gentle early summer breeze-


The bright white lighthouse


and the blue ocean



2018年5月10日木曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today 




初夏を吹く風の回廊ローカル線




Riding on a local train,


which is just a corridor


of early summer wind




2018年5月6日日曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today 




海風の夏の始まり告ぐを聞く




Hearing the sea breeze


indicate the coming


of summer



2018年5月5日土曜日

Impressive Literary Words Today


Richard Powers: Writing ‘The Overstory’ Quite Literally Changed My Life


Chicago Review of Books
April 18, 2018


”Writing The Overstory quite literally changed my life, starting with where and how I live.

Researching the book, I visited the Smokies, home to the largest tracts of remaining old growth forest east of the Rockies, with six kinds of forest and more species of trees than there are in all of Europe.

I ended up staying, and I’ve lived for the last two years in this, one of the last refuges of biodiversity on the continent. Here, walking a trail has become as important to me as writing.

The Overstory is my twelfth published novel. In the past, when I finished a book, I was always ready and excited to go on to a new topic—something new and different from anything I’d written about before.

Now I just want to walk, look, listen, breathe, and write this same book, again and again, from different aspects and elevations, with characters as old and large as I am able to imagine.”

−Richard Powers


☆Wow, my favorite American novelist Richard Powers has changed his life completely.

☆He seems to be living now in the forest on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains.

☆I'm unable to take my eyes off his way of life living together with nature, which reminds me of Henry David Thoreau.

☆ ”Now I just want to walk, look, listen, breathe, and write this same book, again and again” !  I think he has firm resolution. I respect him.


2018年5月3日木曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(英英辞典編)
Impressive Words Today in a Dictionary


”When the rain passed, the limbs of the wet trees were darker and their leaves were greener.”


(From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English


☆Literary scenery!  The writer gets a good sight of the trees. Beautiful!


2018年5月1日火曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today 




新緑の風のなかにて深呼吸




Taking a deep breath


in the wind bearing the scent


of fresh leaves