Notre-Dame de Paris — Page 10
, there would have been no documents in the trial of Ravaillac deposited in the clerk's office of the Palais de Justice, no accomplices interested in causing the said documents to disappear; hence, no incendiaries obliged, for lack of better means, to burn the clerk's office in order to burn the documents, and to burn the Palais de Justice in order to burn the clerk's office; consequently, in short, no conflagration in 1618.
ラヴァイヤックの裁判に関する書類がパレ・ド・ジュスティスの書記室に保管されることもなく、その書類を消滅させようとする共犯者も存在しなかったであろう。したがって、書類を焼却するために書記室に火を放ち、書記室を焼却するためにパレ・ド・ジュスティスに火を放つことを余儀なくされた放火犯も存在せず、結果として、1618年の大火もなかったであろう。
The old Palais would be standing still, with its ancient grand hall; I should be able to say to the reader, "Go and look at it," and we should thus both escape the necessity,—I of making, and he of reading, a description of it, such as it is.
古いパレはその昔ながらの大広間とともに今も建っていたであろう。私は読者に「行って見てきなさい」と言うことができたであろうし、私がその描写を書く必要も、読者がそれを読む必要も、ともに免れることができたであろう。
Which demonstrates a new truth: that great events have incalculable results.
これは一つの新しい真実を示している。すなわち、大きな出来事は計り知れない結果をもたらすということだ。
It is true that it may be quite possible, in the first place, that Ravaillac had no accomplices; and in the second, that if he had any, they were in no way connected with the fire of 1618.
確かに、まず第一にラヴァイヤックに共犯者がいなかった可能性も十分あり得る。第二に、たとえ共犯者がいたとしても、彼らが1618年の火災とは何ら関係がなかった可能性もある。
Two other very plausible explanations exist: First, the great flaming star, a foot broad, and a cubit high, which fell from heaven, as every one knows, upon the law courts, after midnight on the seventh of March; second, Théophile's quatrain,—
他にも非常にもっともらしい二つの説明が存在する。第一は、誰もが知るように、3月7日の深夜過ぎに天から法廷の上に落下した、幅一フィート、高さ一キュービットの巨大な燃える星である。第二は、テオフィルの四行詩である。
"Sure, 'twas but a sorry game / When at Paris, Dame Justice, / Through having eaten too much spice, / Set the palace all aflame.
「まことに、これは情けない出来事であった。パリにおいて、正義の女神が、香辛料を食べすぎたために、宮殿を全焼させてしまったとは。」
Vocabulary
- 裁判
- saiban — Trial, court proceedings, legal judgment
- 関する
- kan suru — To relate to, be concerned with, pertain to
- 書類
- shorui — Documents, papers, written materials, files
- 保管
- hokan — Storage, custody, safekeeping of documents
- される
- sareru — Passive voice auxiliary; to be done
- こと
- koto — Thing, fact, matter, deed, occurrence
- なく
- naku — Without, not doing; negation marker
- その
- sono — That, its, the said; demonstrative adjective
- 消滅
- shometsu — Disappearance, extinction, destruction, annihilation
- させよう
- saseyou — Let's cause, make someone do something
- する
- suru — To do, make, perform, carry out action
- 共犯者
- kyouhannsha — Accomplice, co-conspirator, partner in crime
- 存在
- sonzai — Existence, being present, presence, entity
- しなかった
- shinakatta — Did not do; negative past tense form
- あろう
- arou — Probably, perhaps; speculative auxiliary verb
- したがって
- shitagatte — Therefore, consequently, accordingly, thus
- 焼却
- shoukaku — Burning, incineration, destruction by fire
- ため
- tame — For the sake of, purpose, benefit, reason
- 放つ
- hanatsu — To release, set fire, emit, discharge
- 余儀なく
- yoginaku — Unavoidably, necessarily, being forced to do
- され
- sare — Passive voice marker; to be done
- 放火犯
- houkahan — Arsonist, person who commits arson
- せず
- sezu — Without doing, not doing; negation form
- 結果
- kekka — Result, consequence, outcome, effect
- として
- to shite — As, in the capacity of, functioning as
- 大火
- taibi — Great fire, major conflagration, huge blaze
- なかった
- nakatta — Did not exist; negative past tense form
- 古い
- furui — Old, ancient, aged, former times
- 昔ながら
- mukashinagara — In the old way, traditionally, as of old
- とも
- tomo — Together with, both; particle indicating accompaniment
- 建って
- tatte — Standing, built, erected; past participle
- 読者
- dokusya — Reader, audience; person who reads
- 行って
- itte — Going, went; past participle of iku
- 見て
- mite — Looking, seeing, watching; present participle
- なさい
- nasai — Please do; polite imperative form
- 言う
- iu — To say, speak, tell, express in words
- でき
- deki — Able to, can, possible; capability marker
- 描写
- byousha — Description, depiction, portrayal, representation
- 書く
- kaku — To write, draw, compose; writing action
- 必要
- hitsuyou — Necessary, required, needed, essential
- それ
- sore — That, it; demonstrative pronoun reference
- 読む
- yomu — To read, interpret; comprehend written text
- 免れる
- manukareru — To escape, avoid, be exempt from
- これ
- kore — This, this one; near demonstrative pronoun
- 一つ
- hitotsu — One, single, a; numeral one
- 新しい
- atarashii — New, fresh, modern, recent, novel
- 真実
- shinjitsu — Truth, reality, the actual facts
- 示して
- shimesite — Showing, indicating, demonstrating; present participle
- いる
- iru — To be, exist, present; state of being
- すなわち
- sunawachi — Namely, in other words, that is
- 大きな
- ookina — Large, big, great; adjective modifying nouns
- 出来事
- dekigoto — Event, happening, occurrence, incident
- ない
- nai — Not, no, absence; negation auxiliary verb
- もたらす
- motarasu — To bring about, cause, produce, result
- という
- toiu — Called, named; quotation particle marker
- 確か
- tashika — Certain, sure, reliable; definitely
- まず
- mazu — First, firstly, in the first place
- 第一
- daiichi — First, primary; the first one ranking
- 可能性
- kanousei — Possibility, potential, likelihood, chance
- 十分
- juubun — Sufficient, enough, adequate, ample
- あり得る
- arieru — Possible, plausible, can happen; feasible
- 第二
- daini — Second, secondary; the second ranking
- たとえ
- tatoe — Even if, though, supposing; conditional
- して
- shite — Doing, making; participle, causative form
- 彼ら
- karera — They, them; plural third person pronoun
- 火災
- kasai — Fire, conflagration; disaster by burning
- 何ら
- nanra — Any, anything, none; interrogative negative
- 関係
- kankei — Relation, relationship, connection, association
- ある
- aru — To exist, have, be present; existence
- 非常
- hijou —
- もっともらしい
- mottomorashii — Plausible, reasonable, seemingly true appearance
- 二つ
- futatsu — Two, a pair; numeral two things
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