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早めのスピードのあとに、ゆっくりめのスピードで流れます。

レッスンのために録音したものなので、BGMを付けて無料配信しています。

BGM:「カフェ」 by 作田京輔 on dova-s.jp



Hello everyone on Note.com! This is Julie.
ノートをご覧の皆さん、こんばんは。ジュリです。

本日もピーターパンの続きを読んでいきたいと思います。
1904年に出版されたイギリスの作品をアメリカ英語の発音で読んでいることをご了承ください。
ネイティブのスピード（0:40～）で読んだあとに、ゆっくり（4:38～）読んでいきます。
文字を見ずに聞いたあと、文字を見ながら聞いてみると、視覚に頼らないリスニング練習になります。
それでは、ピーターパンの第一章、19段落目から29段落目、お付き合いください。


Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents, but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other's nose, and so forth. On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles [simple boat]. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very real. That is why there are night-lights.

Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.

“Yes, he is rather cocky,” Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her.

“But who is he, my pet?”

“He is Peter Pan, you know, mother.”

At first Mrs. Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.

“Besides,” she said to Wendy, “he would be grown up by this time.”

“Oh no, he isn't grown up,” Wendy assured her confidently, “and he is just my size.” She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn't know how she knew, she just knew it.

Mrs. Darling consulted Mr. Darling, but he smiled pooh-pooh. “Mark my words,” he said, “it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Leave it alone, and it will blow over.”

But it would not blow over and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.



How was it?
いかがでしたか？
今回は前回と比べると短めでしたね。
ピーターパン本人の登場はまだ先のようです。

この音声配信、各回がだいたい同じ閲覧数になっているようなので、ちょっとは需要があるのかな？と思っているところなんですが。どうなんでしょう？
続きを聞きたい、という方はぜひスキを押していただけると、ノート用に編集する意欲が出ます。

それでは、また。ジュリでした。
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