Crime and Punishment — Page 4
In the words of a Russian critic, who seeks to explain the feeling inspired by Dostoevsky: "He was one of ourselves, a man of our blood and our bone, but one who has suffered and has seen so much more deeply than we have his insight impresses us as wisdom... that wisdom of the heart which we seek that we may learn from it how to live.
ドストエフスキーによって呼び起こされる感情を説明しようとするロシアの批評家の言葉を借りれば、「彼は我々の仲間であり、我々と血を分けた骨肉の人であったが、我々よりもはるかに深く苦しみ、はるかに深く見てきた人であり、その洞察は知恵として我々の心に迫ってくる……それは我々が求める心の知恵であり、そこからいかに生きるかを学ぼうとするものである。
All his other gifts came to him from nature, this he won for himself and through it he became great.
他のあらゆる才能は天性から与えられたものであったが、これだけは彼自身が勝ち取ったものであり、それによって彼は偉大になったのである。」
Vocabulary
- に
- ni — Particle indicating location, direction, time, or agent.
- よって
- yotte — By means of; due to; depending on.
- 呼び起こされる
- yobiokosareru — To be evoked, aroused, or stirred up.
- 感情
- kanjō — Emotion, feeling, sentiment.
- を
- o — Particle marking the direct object of a verb.
- 説明
- setsumei — Explanation, description, clarification.
- しよう
- shiyō — Volitional form of suru; let's do or try to do.
- と
- to — Particle meaning 'and', 'with', or quotation marker.
- する
- suru — To do; to make; general-purpose action verb.
- の
- no — Possessive or nominalizing particle.
- 批評家
- hihyōka — Critic, reviewer, literary or art commentator.
- 言葉
- kotoba — Word, language, expression, speech.
- 借りれば
- karireba — If one borrows; using someone else's words.
- 彼
- kare — He, him; third-person masculine pronoun.
- は
- wa — Topic marker particle highlighting the subject.
- 我々
- wareware — We, us; formal first-person plural pronoun.
- 仲間
- nakama — Companion, fellow, member of a group.
- で
- de — Particle indicating location of action or means.
- あり
- ari — Conjunctive form of aru; is, exists, and also.
- 血
- chi — Blood; lineage, ancestry.
- 分け
- wake — Division, sharing; splitting something.
- た
- ta — Past tense auxiliary verb marker.
- 骨肉
- kotsuniku — Flesh and blood; one's own family or kin.
- 人
- hito — Person, human being, individual.
- あった
- atta — Past tense of aru; was, existed, there was.
- が
- ga — Subject marker particle; also means 'but'.
- より
- yori — Than; more than; comparative particle.
- も
- mo — Also, too; even; additive particle.
- はるかに
- haruka ni — Far more, by far, incomparably.
- 深く
- fukaku — Deeply, profoundly; adverbial form of fukai.
- 苦しみ
- kurushimi — Suffering, pain, anguish, torment.
- 見て
- mite — Te-form of miru; seeing, having seen.
- き
- ki — Past auxiliary (kita contracted); has come/done.
- その
- sono — That, those; demonstrative modifier.
- 洞察
- dōsatsu — Insight, penetrating observation, discernment.
- 知恵
- chie — Wisdom, intelligence, wit, cleverness.
- して
- shite — Te-form of suru; doing, and then.
- 心
- kokoro — Heart, mind, spirit, inner feelings.
- 迫っ
- sematte — Pressing close; urging; bearing down on.
- て
- te — Te-form conjunctive particle connecting clauses.
- くる
- kuru — To come; auxiliary indicating action toward speaker.
- それ
- sore — That, it; mid-distance demonstrative pronoun.
- 求める
- motomeru — To seek, demand, desire, search for.
- そこ
- soko — There, that place; mid-distance location pronoun.
- から
- kara — From; because; after; starting point particle.
- いかに
- ika ni — How, in what way; formal interrogative adverb.
- 生きる
- ikiru — To live, to exist, to be alive.
- か
- ka — Question particle; or; uncertainty marker.
- 学ぼう
- manabō — Volitional form of manabu; let us learn.
- もの
- mono — Thing; person; nominalized concept or expectation.
- ある
- aru — To exist, to be, to have (inanimate things).
- 他
- hoka — Other, another, the rest, elsewhere.
- あらゆる
- arayuru — Every, all possible, any kind of.
- 才能
- sainō — Talent, ability, gift, natural aptitude.
- 天性
- tensei — Natural disposition, innate nature, inborn character.
- 与え
- atae — Giving; conjunctive form of ataeru (to give).
- られ
- rare — Passive or potential auxiliary verb suffix.
- これ
- kore — This, this one; near-speaker demonstrative pronoun.
- だけ
- dake — Only, just, as much as; limiting particle.
- 自身
- jishin — Oneself, one's own self, personally.
- 勝ち取っ
- kachitotte — Having won, earned, or achieved through effort.
- 偉大
- idai —
- なっ
- natte — Te-form of naru; having become, turning into.
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