Pride and Prejudice — Page 10
Miss Austen, too, drew back when the white frost touched her shoes; but I think she would have made a pretty good journey even in a black one.
オースティン嬢もまた、白い霜が靴に触れたとき後退した。しかし私は、たとえ黒い霜であっても、彼女はかなりうまく旅を続けられただろうと思う。
For if her knowledge was not very extended, she knew two things which only genius knows.
というのも、彼女の知識はそれほど広くはなかったとしても、天才だけが知る二つのことを彼女は知っていたからだ。
The one was humanity, and the other was art.
その一つは人間性であり、もう一つは芸術であった。
On the first head she could not make a mistake; her men, though limited, are true, and her women are, in the old sense, "absolute."
前者においては彼女は決して誤りを犯さなかった。彼女の描く男性は限定的ではあるが真実であり、女性は古い意味で「完璧」である。
As to art, if she has never tried idealism, her realism is real to a degree which makes the false realism of our own day look merely dead-alive.
芸術に関しては、彼女が理想主義を試みたことはないとしても、彼女のリアリズムは現代の偽りのリアリズムをただの生ける屍のように見せてしまうほど、真に迫っている。
Take almost any Frenchman, except the late M. de Maupassant, and watch him laboriously piling up strokes in the hope of giving a complete impression.
故モーパッサン氏を除くほとんどのフランス人作家を取り上げ、完全な印象を与えようと苦労して筆致を積み重ねる様子を見てみるがよい。
You get none; you are lucky if, discarding two-thirds of what he gives, you can shape a real impression out of the rest.
しかし何も得られない。彼が与えるものの三分の二を捨てて、残りから真の印象を形作ることができれば、むしろ幸運と言うべきだ。
But with Miss Austen the myriad, trivial, unforced strokes build up the picture like magic.
しかしオースティン嬢においては、無数の些細な、自然な筆致が魔法のように絵を作り上げていく。
Nothing is false; nothing is superfluous.
偽りのものは何もなく、余分なものも何もない。
When (to take the present book only) Mr. Collins changed his mind from Jane to Elizabeth "while Mrs. Bennet was stirring the fire" (and we know how Mrs. Bennet would have stirred the fire), when Mr. Darcy "brought his coffee-cup back himself," the touch in each case is like that of Swift--"taller by the breadth of my nail"--which impressed the half-reluctant Thackeray with just and outspoken admiration.
（本書のみを例に取れば）コリンズ氏が「ベネット夫人が火をかき立てている間に」ジェーンからエリザベスへと心変わりした場面（ベネット夫人がどのように火をかき立てたかは容易に想像できる）、そしてダーシー氏が「自らコーヒーカップを持ち返した」場面、いずれの場合もその筆致はスウィフトの「爪の幅だけ背が高い」という一句に似て、半ば渋々ながらもサッカレーに正当かつ率直な称賛の念を抱かせたものと同様である。
Vocabulary
- また
- mata — again; also; furthermore; and then.
- 白い
- shiroi — white; pale in color.
- 触れ
- ふure — to touch; to come into contact with something.
- とき
- toki — time; moment; occasion; when something happens.
- 後退
- kōtai — retreat; withdrawal; stepping back or moving backward.
- しかし
- shikashi — however; but; nevertheless; yet despite that.
- たとえ
- tatoe — even if; even though; for example; suppose.
- 黒い
- kuroi — black; dark in color or appearance.
- 彼女
- kanojo — she; her; girlfriend; female romantic partner.
- かなり
- kanari — considerably; fairly; quite a lot or very much.
- うまく
- umaku — skillfully; well; successfully; in a clever manner.
- 続け
- tsuzuke — to continue; to proceed; to keep going forward.
- られ
- rare — potential auxiliary; passive auxiliary; can; able to be.
- だろう
- darō — probably; likely; I suppose; will probably.
- 思う
- omou — to think; to believe; to suppose; to feel.
- という
- to iu — called; named; meaning; that is to say.
- 知識
- chishiki — knowledge; information; learning; educational understanding.
- それほど
- sorehodo — so much; to that extent; that much; so very.
- 広く
- hirou — widely; broadly; extensively; in a wide manner.
- なかっ
- nakatta — was not; did not exist; negative past tense.
- 天才
- tensai — genius; a talented or brilliant person overall.
- だけ
- dake — only; just; merely; nothing but or solely.
- 知る
- shiru — to know; to understand; to be aware of.
- 二つ
- futatsu — two; two things; a pair of items.
- こと
- koto — thing; matter; affair; fact; business or event.
- 知っ
- shit — to know; past tense stem of knowing.
- から
- kara — from; since; because; starting point or reason.
- その
- sono — that; the; its; that particular thing.
- 一つ
- hitotsu — one; a single thing; one item or object.
- 人間
- ningen — human being; person; mankind; human individual.
- あり
- ari — to exist; to have; to be present somewhere.
- もう
- mō — already; further; more; additional or any longer.
- 芸術
- geijutsu — art; fine arts; artistic endeavor or creation.
- 前者
- zensha — the former; the first mentioned of two things.
- 決して
- kesshite — never; certainly not; by no means whatsoever.
- 誤り
- ayamari — error; mistake; fault; incorrect or wrong thing.
- 犯さ
- okasa — to commit; to perpetrate; to violate or transgress.
- 描く
- egaku — to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe.
- 男性
- dansei — male; man; masculine gender or male person.
- 限定的
- gentei-teki — limited; restrictive; narrow in scope or application.
- ある
- aru — to exist; to have; to be present or available.
- 真実
- shinjitsu — truth; reality; the actual facts or genuine reality.
- 女性
- josei — female; woman; feminine gender or female person.
- 古い
- furui — old; aged; ancient; of considerable age or time.
- 意味
- imi — meaning; sense; significance; what something means.
- 完璧
- kanpeki — perfect; flawless; complete; without any faults.
- 関し
- sekashi — to relate to; concerning; regarding; connected with.
- 理想
- risō — ideal; ideal state; perfect or desired condition.
- 主義
- shugi — ideology; doctrine; principle; system of beliefs.
- 試み
- kokoromi — attempt; effort; endeavor; trying to do something.
- ない
- nai — not; do not; does not; negative auxiliary verb.
- リアリズム
- riarizumu — realism; artistic movement emphasizing realistic depiction.
- 現代
- gendai — modern times; contemporary era; present day or age.
- 偽り
- itsuwari — falsehood; lie; deception; untruthful or dishonest statement.
- ただ
- tada — only; merely; simply; nothing but or just.
- 生ける
- ikeru — alive; living; fresh; to arrange flowers artistically.
- よう
- yō — appearance; manner; way; seem; look like.
- 見せ
- mise — to show; to display; to reveal; to demonstrate.
- しまう
- shimau — to finish; to complete; to end up doing.
- ほど
- hodo — degree; extent; about; approximately; to the point.
- 迫っ
- 迫った — to press; to approach; to draw near urgently.
- いる
- iru — to be; to exist; to stay; to remain present.
- 除く
- nozoku — to exclude; to except; to remove or eliminate.
- ほとんど
- hotondo — almost; nearly; practically; very nearly or mostly.
- フランス
- Furansu — France; the European country west of Germany.
- 作家
- sakka — author; writer; literary artist; someone who writes.
- 取り上げ
- toriage — to take up; to deal with; to discuss something.
- 完全
- kanzen — complete; perfect; whole; fully done or finished.
- 印象
- inshō — impression; image; feeling conveyed or perceived.
- 与えよ
- ataeyō — to give; to grant; to provide or bestow.
- 苦労
- kurou — hardship; pain; struggle; difficulty or hard work.
- 筆致
- hitsuji — brushwork; painting technique; artistic style or manner.
- 積み重ねる
- tsumikaasaneru — to accumulate; to pile up; to build up gradually.
- 様子
- yōsu — appearance; state; situation; the way something looks.
- みる
- miru — to look; to see; to watch; to observe.
- よい
- yoi — good; fine; well; nice; positive or desirable.
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