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LESSON 3 The Kid Who Challenged a Giant Company
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1. What did a high-school student, Kelydra Welcker, discover about a large company in her area?
2. What did she do to try to solve the problem?
地域の大企業に何を発見?
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Sometimes one's identity is to be found in one's name. Kelydra Welcker's
個性
Bersonalitican その人の名前に見い出される
uncommon first name tells us the personality of her parents and of her own, Being
一風変った
=identity 人柄
いなので
amateur naturalists enthusiastic about the wildlife in their hometown, Parkersburg,
熱心な素人の自然研究者
に住んでる
West Virginia, which lies at the junction of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers the
川の合流点
Welckers named their daughter after the snapping turtle in the local area. Their
いにちなんで
地元のかみつきがメに
love for nature was inherited by Kelydra as well as their scientific mind.
いに対する
①自然への愛と
②科学精でいとともに
I encountered her name in my research on science fairs, where school kids
偶然出会う
調べているとき
大会
present their results of scientific study to compete with other contestants. Kelydra
発表する
競う
and
出場者
was a well-known figure in Parkersburg, not merely as a devoted competitor since
分野でちゃんと
活動する人
として enthusiastic
以来の
kindergarten\but as a young Erin Brockovich. I could easily find her name on social
比 環境運動家
networking site. Kelydra was in college now and willingly agreed to be interviewed.
今大学生
よろこんでインタビューに応じると
③ During her junior year of high school keen to come up with a winning project,
9年生~12年生で
思いつく勝てそうな計画を検索
Kelydra spotted an article in the local paper that got her gears turning.
みつけた
PFOA a
ギ
やる気をそえるような.
というのは説
chemical used by a large corporation in the production of Teflon, had slowly leaked
ある大企業によって用いられる、生産する際に
それまでに徐なもれだす
into the local ground water and shown up in residents' blood tests. According to one
検出された
血液検査
study, (the amount of PFOA in blood samples of people living near the company's
工場の近くに住む人とが

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factory was roughly six times that of the national average. Further studies showed
全国平均の6倍に達していた
さらに
the possibility that PFOA could cause cancer. While evidence was insufficient, it
同格 可能性
だが、
十分とはいえなかったが、
seemed that any living creature who drank Parkersburg's water was doing so at its
どんな生き物も
水をのんでる生き物は、
・危険を冒して水をのんで氷をのんでいる
own risk. Kelydra was terribly shocked. This just didn't seem right. But when
自ら危険を
うかして
まったく正しくは思えない
she decided to choose this topic for her science fair project, she was about to learn for
まさに今いなうとしている
the first time that right and wrong weren't the only factors she'd have to consider.
生まれてはじめて
正しいこと、まちがっていることが唯一の要素でないと学ぼうとしていたトコ
W
+ In Parkersburg,\just about everyone worked at this big company and Kelydra's
=almost ほとんどだれもが
family was no exception. Kelydra's father had always encouraged her scientific
例外
父は研究を激励していた。
projects, but this time he frowned by criticizing the company Kelydra could be
しかし今度は
可能性
accused of trying to put the company out of business. But Kelydra believed in what
いが正しいと信じる
be blaue for:~で攻められる企業の倒産をもくろんでいる
she was doing, and no one was to stop her.\\
=could だれも彼女をとめれない。
⑤ Her first challenge was to figure out how to accurately gauge PFOA levels in
課題 考え出す どのように正確に測るか
water. An economical method was definitely necessary for a nonprofessional
経済的に節約できる=Inexpensive のことして
high-school girl. During her research, one fact caught her eye: PFOA was a
時
surfactant. which meant it produced foam when shaken) like bubble bath. Kelydra
界面活性剤
意味したDFOA
ゆすると泡立つ
あわ立て剤
knew that the more bubble bath you used, the more bubbles you goty Could the
solution be as simple as boiling down the PFOA-laden water, shaking it, and
解決策は
煮つめる
入った水を
ゆすって、
measuring how much foam was on top? Kelydra gave it a shot. After plotting her
はかる どれほどのあわが上に残るか
giveita
・try
results for weeks on a graph, \she found that this simple measurement worked with
かんたんに
何週間もかけて
結果ブラフにすると
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