Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Page 6
So Tom got out a sheet of paper that he had wrote the oath on, and read it.
それでトムは誓いを書いた紙を取り出して、読み上げた。
It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.
それは、すべての少年が団に忠誠を誓い、秘密を決して漏らさないことを誓わせるものだった。そして団の少年の誰かに何かをした者がいれば、その人物とその家族を殺すよう命じられた少年は必ずそれを実行しなければならず、彼らを殺して胸に十字を刻むまで食べてはならず眠ってもならなかった。その十字が団の印だった。
And nobody that didn't belong to the band could use that mark, and if he did he must be sued; and if he done it again he must be killed.
そして団に属さない者はその印を使ってはならず、もし使えば訴えられなければならなかった。そして再び使えば殺されなければならなかった。
And if anybody that belonged to the band told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and his name blotted off of the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot forever.
そして団に属する者が秘密を漏らした場合、その者は喉を切られ、死骸を焼かれて灰をあちこちに撒き散らされ、名前を血でリストから消され、団の者たちから二度と口にされることなく、呪いをかけられて永遠に忘れ去られなければならなかった。
Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head.
みんなは本当に素晴らしい誓いだと言い、トムに自分で考えたのかと尋ねた。
He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it.
トムは、一部は自分で考えたが、残りは海賊の本や盗賊の本から取ったもので、一流の団はみんなこれを持っていると言った。
Some thought it would be good to kill the families of boys that told the secrets.
秘密を漏らした少年の家族も殺すのがいいだろうと言う者もいた。
Tom said it was a good idea, so he took a pencil and wrote it in.
トムはそれは良い考えだと言い、鉛筆を取って書き加えた。
Vocabulary
- それで
- sorede — and so, therefore, as a result
- は
- wa — topic marker particle
- 誓い
- chikai — oath, vow, solemn promise
- を
- wo — object marker particle
- 書いた
- kaita — wrote, past tense of 書く
- 紙
- kami — paper, a sheet of paper
- 取り出して
- toridashite — took out, produced, pulled something out
- 読み上げた
- yomiageta — read aloud, recited something out loud
- それ
- sore — that, referring to something mentioned
- すべて
- subete — all, everything, the whole of something
- の
- no — possessive or linking particle
- 少年
- shōnen — boy, young male, youth
- が
- ga — subject marker particle
- 団
- dan — group, gang, band, organization
- に
- ni — direction, location, or target particle
- 忠誠
- chūsei — loyalty, allegiance, fidelity to a group
- 秘密
- himitsu — secret, confidential information
- 決して
- kesshite — never, absolutely not (with negative)
- 漏らさ
- morasa — stem of 漏らす, to leak or reveal secrets
- ない
- nai — not, negative auxiliary form
- こと
- koto — thing, act, fact, nominalizer
- 誓わせる
- chikaawaseru — to make someone swear an oath
- もの
- mono — thing, object, something that is the case
- だった
- datta — was, past tense of だ (copula)
- そして
- soshite — and then, furthermore, additionally
- 誰か
- dareka — someone, anybody, a certain person
- 何か
- nanika — something, anything, some kind of thing
- した
- shita — did, past tense of する
- 者
- mono — person, one who does something
- いれ
- ire — conditional stem of いる, if there is
- ば
- ba — conditional particle, meaning if
- その
- sono — that, the (demonstrative adjective)
- 人物
- jinbutsu — person, individual, character, figure
- と
- to — and, with, quotation particle
- 家族
- kazoku — family, one's relatives
- 殺す
- korosu — to kill, to slay someone
- よう
- yō — in order to, so as to, manner
- 命じ
- meiji — stem of 命じる, to order or command
- られた
- rareta — passive past auxiliary, was ordered/done
- 必ず
- kanarazu — certainly, without fail, always
- 実行
- jikkō — execution, carrying out an action
- し
- shi — conjunctive form of する, do/and
- なけれ
- nakere — conditional negative stem, must do
- なら
- nara — conditional, if that is the case
- ず
- zu — negative auxiliary (literary), without doing
- 彼ら
- karera — they, them, a group of people
- 殺して
- koroshite — killing, te-form of 殺す
- 胸
- mune — chest, breast, heart area
- 十字
- jūji — cross shape, cruciform mark
- 刻む
- kizamu — to carve, engrave, or inscribe deeply
- まで
- made — until, up to, as far as
- 食べて
- tabete — eating, te-form of 食べる
- 眠って
- nemutte — sleeping, te-form of 眠る
- も
- mo — also, even, too (particle)
- なかった
- nakatta — did not, past negative of ない
- 印
- shirushi — mark, sign, symbol, seal
- 属さ
- zokusa — stem of 属する, to belong to
- 使って
- tsukatte — using, te-form of 使う
- もし
- moshi — if, supposing, in the event that
- 使えば
- tsukaeba — if one uses, conditional of 使う
- 訴え
- uttae — accusation, lawsuit, complaint, appeal
- られ
- rare — passive auxiliary stem
- 再び
- futatabi — again, once more, a second time
- 殺さ
- korosa — passive stem of 殺す, to be killed
- れ
- re — passive/potential auxiliary ending
- 属する
- zokusuru — to belong to, be a member of
- 漏らした
- morashita — leaked, revealed a secret (past tense)
- 場合
- baai — case, situation, occasion, circumstance
- 喉
- nodo — throat, one's neck or gullet
- 切ら
- kira — stem of 切る, to cut (passive context)
- 死骸
- shigai — corpse, dead body, remains
- 焼か
- yaka — stem of 焼く, to burn (passive context)
- れて
- rete — passive te-form auxiliary
- 灰
- hai — ash, ashes left after burning
- あちこち
- achikochi — here and there, all over the place
- 撒き散らさ
- makichirasa — stem of 撒き散らす, to scatter widely
- 名前
- namae — name, one's given or full name
- 血
- chi — blood, gore
- で
- de — by means of, at, with (particle)
- リスト
- risuto — list, written enumeration of items
- から
- kara — from, because, after (particle)
- 消さ
- kesa — stem of 消す, to erase or remove
- たち
- tachi — plural suffix for people or animals
- 二度と
- nidoto — never again, not a second time
- 口
- kuchi — mouth, opening, entrance
- さ
- sa — nominalization suffix or emphasis particle
- れる
- reru — passive or potential verb ending
- なく
- naku — without, negatively, not having
- 呪い
- noroi — curse, hex, evil spell
- かけ
- kake — stem of かける, to cast or apply
- られて
- rarete — passive te-form, being subjected to something
- 永遠
- eien — eternity, forever, everlasting
- 忘れ去ら
- wasuresara — stem of 忘れ去る, to be utterly forgotten
- みんな
- minna — everyone, all, everybody
- 本当に
- hontōni — truly, really, genuinely
- 素晴らしい
- subarashii — wonderful, splendid, magnificent
- だ
- da — is, am, are (copula)
- 言い
- ii — saying, stem of 言う
- 自分
- jibun — oneself, one's own self
- 考えた
- kangaeta — thought, past tense of 考える
- か
- ka — question particle, or, uncertainty marker
- 尋ねた
- tazuneta — asked, inquired (past tense)
- 一部
- ichibu — a part, portion, one section
- 残り
- nokori — the rest, remainder, what is left
- 海賊
- kaizoku — pirate, sea robber
- 本
- hon — book, or counter for long objects
- や
- ya — and (among others), listing particle
- 盗賊
- tōzoku — thief, robber, bandit
- 取った
- totta — took, obtained (past tense of 取る)
- 一流
- ichiryū — first-class, top-notch, leading
- これ
- kore — this, this thing here
- 持って
- motte — holding, having, te-form of 持つ
- いる
- iru — to be, to exist (animate subjects)
- 言った
- itta — said, past tense of 言う
- いい
- ii — good, fine, nice
- だろう
- darō — probably, I suppose, conjecture form
- 言う
- iu — to say, to speak, to tell
- いた
- ita — was (there), past tense of いる
- 良い
- yoi — good, fine, favorable
- 考え
- kangae — idea, thought, opinion, notion
- 鉛筆
- enpitsu — pencil, writing instrument with graphite
- 取って
- totte — taking, te-form of 取る
- 書き加えた
- kakikuwaeta — added in writing, wrote an addition
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