英語検定ライティング準１級（第157回）

シャケ「冷凍保存技術が美味を奪った話」

50年くらい前の話になる。朝ご飯の食卓には辛いシャケがあった。その一切れは大きくなかった。味は極めて辛いものだった。その小さな一切れでご飯は２杯ほど食べることができた。
This is a passage people over 50 could recall in 1970’s, when we would often see too a salty piece of salmon on the morning table as breakfast, which wasn’t so big.
We could eat two bowls of rice with such a salty piece because its taste was extremely salty, we remember.

あの辛さは好きだった。しかし今は食べることができない。ネット通販で検索すると高額だ。食卓に出されなくなったのは世の健康志向が塩分を嫌ったからだ。あれは塩分の塊だった。
Almost all ordinary citizens liked its salty piece, but not a few people failed to eat too a salty mass.
In recent years, such a salty food is unlikely to enter our mouths because it would make negative contributions to our health condition.
So it is rare and we can buy it only online, which is too expensive for ordinary citizens to purchase, to our sorry.
There are numerous health-conscious eaters in our society, who probably eliminated something salty from our morning table, but the piece actually was the “salt.”

塩を染み込ませて腐敗を防ぐ時代があった。プロレタリアートの蟹工船を思い出す。冷凍保存技術がなかった頃は塩だけが魚を腐敗から防いだ。だから食卓のシャケは激辛だったのだ。
Too much salt soaked into a salmon, which prevented it from going decayed without fail.
Many book lovers associate this situation with “A crab-canning boat,” which is famous and evaluated as one of the proletariat literature : “Kanikousen” in Japanese.
Only salt prevented the raw fish from going bad because the era didn’t own the refrigeration technologies, so we ate too a salty piece of salmon for breakfast.

こう考えると、科学技術の進歩は現代人の食事を健康的にさせている。激辛のシャケの塩分は普通の人間なら簡単に高血圧で死なせることができる。だがたまに食べたくなってしまう。
Considering this, technological advancements have made numerous modern citizens’ cuisines more and more healthy, which made our dishes tasteless.
A large amount of salt included in too salty pieces is likely to kill numerous patients with high blood pressure without fail, but several of us cannot forget this taste.

科学技術の進歩によって塩の塊のようなシャケは消えた。そして高血圧で死ぬ患者も減った。医療技術の進歩と同様に冷凍技術の進歩も高齢社会に負の影響を与えている。で少子化は？
Technological developments caused a piece of salty salmon to be abolished from our society, which made a difference about the number of patients who die from high blood pressure decreasing in recent years.
As well as numerous advances of medical technology, several developments of refrigeration counterpart have made negative contributions to our society because the number of senior people has been larger and larger in recent years, which makes young citizens’ financial burdens challenging, we must remember.