Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Page 11
"In the year 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed: there—pointing to the sea—is a green pasture where our children's grand-children will go for bread." —_Obed Macy's History of Nantucket_.
「1690年、数人の者が高い丘の上でクジラたちが潮を吹き、互いにたわむれるのを眺めていたとき、一人がこう言った。あそこに――海を指さしながら――我らの子孫たちがパンを求めて向かうことになる緑の牧草地がある。」――『オベッド・メイシーのナンタケット史』
"I built a cottage for Susan and myself and made a gateway in the form of a Gothic Arch, by setting up a whale's jaw bones." —_Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales_.
「私はスーザンと自分のために小屋を建て、クジラの顎骨を立てることでゴシック式アーチの形をした門を作った。」――『ホーソーンの二度語られた話』
"She came to bespeak a monument for her first love, who had been killed by a whale in the Pacific ocean, no less than forty years ago." —_Ibid_.
「彼女は、四十年以上も前に太平洋でクジラに殺された初恋の人のために、記念碑を注文しに来た。」――同書
"No, Sir, 'tis a Right Whale," answered Tom; "I saw his sprout; he threw up a pair of as pretty rainbows as a Christian would wish to look at. He's a raal oil-butt, that fellow!" —_Cooper's Pilot_.
「いいえ、旦那、あれはセミクジラです」とトムは答えた。「潮吹きを見ましたよ。キリスト教徒が見たいと思うような、なんとも美しい虹を一対吹き上げました。あいつは本物の油の塊ですよ！」――『クーパーのパイロット』
"The papers were brought in, and we saw in the Berlin Gazette that whales had been introduced on the stage there." —_Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe_.
「新聞が届き、我々はベルリン・ガゼットでクジラがそこの舞台に登場したという記事を読んだ。」――『エッカーマンのゲーテとの対話』
"My God! Mr. Chace, what is the matter?" I answered, "we have been stove by a whale." —"_Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship Essex of Nantucket, which was attacked and finally destroyed by a large Sperm Whale in the Pacific Ocean_." _By Owen Chace of Nantucket, first mate of said vessel. New York_, 1821.
「なんということだ！チェイス氏、どうしたのですか？」私は答えた、「クジラに船腹を破られたのです。」――『ナンタケット籍の捕鯨船エセックス号難破記録――太平洋において大型マッコウクジラに攻撃され、ついに撃沈された』ナンタケットのオーウェン・チェイス著、同船一等航海士。ニューヨーク、1821年。
Vocabulary
- 年
- nen — Year; used as a suffix for calendar years.
- 数人
- sūnin — Several people; a small number of persons.
- 者
- mono / sha — Person; one who does something.
- 高い
- takai — High, tall, or expensive in nature.
- 丘
- oka — Hill; a small elevated landform.
- 上
- ue — Above, top, or on something.
- クジラ
- kujira — Whale; large marine mammal.
- 潮
- shio — Tide, saltwater, or ocean current.
- 吹き
- fuki — Blowing; act of expelling air or spray.
- 互い
- tagai — Each other; mutual or reciprocal relationship.
- たわむれる
- tawamureru — To frolic, play, or sport together lightheartedly.
- 眺め
- nagame — View, scene, or act of gazing at something.
- 一人
- hitori — One person; alone.
- 言っ
- i(tte) — Said; past conjunctive form of 言う (to say).
- あそこ
- asoko — Over there; that place far from speaker.
- 海
- umi — Sea, ocean; large body of saltwater.
- 指さし
- yubisashi — Pointing with a finger at something.
- ながら
- nagara — While doing; simultaneous action conjunction.
- 我ら
- warera — We, us; formal or literary first-person plural.
- 子孫
- shison — Descendants, posterity, offspring of a family.
- パン
- pan — Bread; baked food staple.
- 求め
- motome — Seeking, searching for, requesting something needed.
- 向かう
- mukau — To head toward, face, or proceed to somewhere.
- こと
- koto — Thing, fact, or nominalized abstract concept.
- なる
- naru — To become; indicates transformation or result.
- 緑
- midori — Green; the color green, also used for nature.
- 牧草地
- bokusōchi — Pasture, grassland; land where animals graze.
- ある
- aru — To exist, be located; for inanimate things.
- 史
- shi — History, chronicle; historical record of events.
- 私
- watashi — I, me; standard first-person singular pronoun.
- 自分
- jibun — Oneself; reflexive pronoun referring to the self.
- ため
- tame — For, for the sake of; purpose or benefit.
- 小屋
- koya — Hut, shack, small cabin or shelter.
- 建て
- tate — Building, constructing; act of erecting a structure.
- 立てる
- tateru — To stand up, erect, or set something upright.
- アーチ
- āchi — Arch; curved architectural structural element.
- 形
- katachi / kei — Shape, form, figure of an object.
- 門
- mon — Gate, entrance gateway to a building or property.
- 作っ
- tsuku(tte) — Made, built; conjunctive form of 作る (to make).
- 二度
- nido — Twice, two times; occurring on two occasions.
- 語ら
- katara — Told, narrated; stem of 語る (to tell, narrate).
- 話
- hanashi — Story, talk, conversation; narrative or account.
- 彼女
- kanojo — She, her; third-person feminine pronoun.
- 四十
- yonjū — Forty; the number 40.
- 以上
- ijō — More than, at least; above a certain amount.
- 前
- mae — Before, ago, in front; temporal or spatial position.
- 太平洋
- Taiheiyō — The Pacific Ocean; world's largest ocean.
- 殺さ
- korosa — Killed; passive/causative stem of 殺す (to kill).
- 初恋
- hatsukoi — First love; one's earliest romantic feeling.
- 人
- hito / jin / nin — Person, human being; individual.
- 記念碑
- kinenhi — Monument, memorial stone commemorating someone or something.
- 注文
- chūmon — Order, request; placing an order for goods.
- 来
- ki / rai — Come; arrival or coming toward the speaker.
- いいえ
- iie — No; polite negative response in Japanese.
- 旦那
- danna — Master, husband, sir; term of address for a man.
- あれ
- are — That over there; distal demonstrative pronoun.
- です
- desu — Polite copula meaning is, are, am.
- 答え
- kotae — Answer, reply, response to a question.
- 見まし
- mimashi — Saw, looked at; polite past stem of 見る.
- キリスト教徒
- Kirisutokyōto — Christian; follower of the Christian religion.
- 思う
- omou — To think, feel, believe something subjectively.
- なんとも
- nantomo — Truly, utterly; intensifier expressing strong feeling.
- 美しい
- utsukushii — Beautiful, lovely; aesthetically pleasing and attractive.
- 虹
- niji — Rainbow; arc of colors in the sky.
- 一対
- itsui — A pair, a couple; set of two matching things.
- あいつ
- aitsu — That guy, that one; informal third-person reference.
- 本物
- honmono — The real thing, genuine article; authentic item.
- 油
- abura — Oil, fat; liquid substance from animals or plants.
- 塊
- katamari — Lump, mass, chunk of something solid.
- パイロット
- pairotto — Pilot; person who navigates an aircraft or ship.
- 新聞
- shinbun — Newspaper; printed periodical publication with news.
- 届き
- todoki — Reached, arrived; stem of 届く (to reach, arrive).
- 我々
- wareware — We, us; formal first-person plural pronoun.
- そこ
- soko — There; that place near the listener.
- 舞台
- butai — Stage, setting; platform for performance or scene.
- 登場
- tōjō — Appearance, entry; coming onto the scene or stage.
- という
- to iu — Called, known as; quotation or naming marker.
- 記事
- kiji — Article, news report; written piece in publication.
- 読ん
- yon(de) — Read; conjunctive form of 読む (to read).
- 対話
- taiwa — Dialogue, conversation between two or more people.
- なんということ
- nan to iu koto — What a thing; expression of surprise or disbelief.
- 氏
- shi — Mr., Ms.; honorific suffix for a person's name.
- どうか
- dō ka — Please, somehow; polite request or entreaty expression.
- 破ら
- yabura — Broken, torn; stem of 破る (to break, breach).
- 記録
- kiroku — Record, account; documented description of events.
- おい
- oi — Hey; informal exclamation to get someone's attention.
- 大型
- ōgata — Large size, large-scale; of a big variety or type.
- 攻撃
- kōgeki — Attack, assault; aggressive offensive action against something.
- 一等
- ittō — First class, first rank; top grade or position.
- ニューヨーク
- Nyū Yōku — New York; major city in the northeastern United States.
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