英語検定ライティング準１級（第239回）

ツムツム辞職「73歳がする適切なゲームの話」

議会中に老害議員がゲームをしてて小学生が感想文で暴露した事件が先週あったが辞職したのは親族に危険が及ぶかもという理由だった。退職金は出るんだろうが受け取らないでくれな。
Last week, an extremely eccentric report captured his eyes that a harmful senior congressman aged 73 enjoyed the boring game called “Tsumutsumu” during the meeting, which was exposed to ordinary citizens in the neighborhood with several council reviews of the elementary school’s smart pupils, an article says.

暴露した小学生は偉いと思う。感想文を隠蔽しなかった学校も偉いと思う。辞職勧告を迫った議会も偉いと思う。親族に危険が及ぶので辞職した議員はそもそもやらなければ良かったな。
He must admire the pupils who exposed the elderly congressman’s crime to the public, and the school did good job because they didn’t hide something malicious, and the council must be admired because they required someone harmful to resign from their political business,
The harmful senior congressman resigned from their position because his relatives were narrowly involved in their critical and crucial situation, but the congressman originally shouldn’t have done such an undesirable and repulsive behavior, everyone became furious at him.

別の県でも町長が居眠り議員を撮影してソーシャルメディアに投稿したら議長に注意されたとあったが注意するんなら寝ている議員の方だろ。住民税を払ってる町民は何を思っているの。
In another prefecture, a certain mayor took a few pictures where several congressmen were sleeping during the council, and he posted them on social media.
But the mayor was scolded by the chairperson for his inappropriate behaviors, however, the latter didn’t accuse those sleeping of their lazy attitudes in the least.
Almost all residents in the neighborhood should be mad at several lazy members because they must pay their resident taxes and income taxes, to their sorrows.

彼の実家の町議会では始まった途端に会議室を出てずっと煙草を吸うのがいるらしい。国会で問題にして代議士の定年制を考えた方が良いのではと思ったら国会議員も寝ているのだよ。
In his parents’ neighborhood, his father complained that a certain harmful elderly congressman had a habit to escape from the meeting in order to smoke in the lobby as soon as it started.
These harmful senior congressmen’s undesirable behaviors should be questioned in the Diet, at the same time, the suggestion that a representative should retire at the determined age should be considered earnestly.
However, numerous Diet members sleep soundly at the important and significant conferences, to our sorrow.