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1.
When Donald Keene found a copy of the tale of Genji in a bookstore in
②
Times Square in 1940, he was immediately fascinated with Japan.
"I could not stop reading, sometimes going back to the details
over and
over again I compared the world of The Tale of Genji with my own
In the book, anger never turned into violence and there were no wars.
The hero, Genjisunlike the heroes of European epics was not described
(who was)
as a physically strong man/able to lift a rock that 10 men could not lift. /
Phock because he had failed to "
He knew sorrow
A
o take
over the
government
but because he was a human being and life in this worlds is inevitably
0
男
⑫
sad Until this time I had thought of Japan mainly as a militaristic ®.
country."/
not Abut B (AでなくBだ)
not only A but also B (A)
ofail to~(~しそこなう、失敗する)
• take over ~
(引きつぐ)

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失敗
take over
No.
ゆひきつぐ
Date
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①ドナルド・キーンが1940年、タイムズスクエアの本屋で源氏物語のコピー本を
見つけたとき度はすぐに日本に魅了された/
③
I fascinated
魅了される
Compare
[動]比較する
3 私は読むのを止められなかった/戻っては、詳細まで何度も何度も anger
世界
繰り返した/私は源氏物語の世界と自分自身のを比較した/
⑥
◎本の中では怒りが決して暴力に変わることはなくこに戦争はない!
⑨
主人公の源氏は西洋の小説の中のヒーローとは違って肉体的に強い
[名]怒し、立腹
Violence
[名] 暴力乱暴
hero [名]主人公
[形]…と違って
かった岩を運べるような
男だという描写はない/岩は運べなが、10人の男に運べない
unlike
しそこなったから
②彼は悲哀を知ったからといって彼は政府の仕事を引きつぐことと思ったね
しかし彼は人間だった。そしてこの世は必然的に悲しいからだ。
④
この時まで私は日本は主に軍事国家だと思っていた」/
ではない/epic
[名] 長編英雄小説
sorrow[悲哀
Linevitably
○ [urn into (~にかわる)
D
be fascinated with
o describe
regard
think of
See
[形] 必然的に
Ⅱ (~に魅了される) militaristic
attracted
[形]軍国主義の
D
go back to~
(~にさかのぼる)
View
AasB
consider (AをBとみなす)
look upon
○ Over and over = repeat.
0
compare Awith b
(AとBを比較する)

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Cate
1-2
After studying the Japanese language at a naval language school, >/
War
• Keene served as an intelligence officer in the Pacific region during World I
One of his jobs was traslazing documents. Among them were
by Japanese soldiers.
notebooks written
I was told that the little notebooks were diaries. Unlike the princed
documents(I had already translated; the diaries were cat times>extremely
moving recording
⑨
6
the suffering of the soldiers in their lage days. >
苦悩
最期に
"Very
"Some times the last page of a Japanese soldier's diary contained a message in
To do
1 Goldiers.
English, asking (the American who found the diary) to return it to his family
2
keep diary
after the war. I kept the diaries kalthough I was not supposed co, because I
planned to return them to the soldier's families. However, my desk was
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searched and the diaries were taking away. This was a
great.
disappointment
The first Japanese I ever really knew then, were the writers of the diaries,
though they all were dead by the time I met them, "/
notebooks (written by Japanese Goldiers were among them. <11>
うにょ
うの
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◎海軍学校で日本語を学んだあと!
translate
[動]翻訳する
Ⅲ キーンは太平洋地域の情報将校として第二次大戦中働いた! document
①後の仕事の1つは文書の翻訳だった!それらの中には日本によって書かれた
ノートもあった/
「私は小さなノートは日記だと伝えた!私がしほまで翻訳してきた印刷された
ry
先とは違ってその日記はその時極端に心を動かした/
先達の最期の日々の悲しみが記録されている/
[名]文書、書類
extremely
[副]極度に
極端に
contain
[動]含む
持っている
Isuppose
①時々、日本の日記の最後のページに英語のメッセージが含まれていた! [動]~だと思う
⑩日記を見つけたアメリカ人へ、戦後後の家族へ日記を返してくれるよう頼む/
れていけれど
①私は日記を持ち続けた でも私は思わなかった!なぜなら私は
それらを兵またちの家族へ返すことを計画していたからだ けれども、私の机は
調べられ、そして日記は奪われていた これにはとても絶望した/
⑩最初の日本人を私はこれまでに知っていたそのとき、日記の者は
団体の全てが、私が彼らに会うときまでに死んでいることを/
Q1 Times Square.
described asa.
& He was not physically strongman but he knew sorrow.
a3 He wanted to return them to the soldier's families.
~と考える
disappointment
[名]失望
期待はずれ
at times 時々
Sometimes
occasionally
on occasions
from time to time
once in a while
take away
(とりあげる)
by the time so
(Sがするまでに)