英語検定ライティングで１級（第319回）

夏が勝負「浪人はしたくなかった話」

その当時は現役で大学に合格するのが絶対だと思っていた。今になって考えると１年遅れても納得できるところに行く方がいいと思う。あの頃は人生を長い目で見ることができなかった。
In 1982, he was one of the numerous examinees, and he had the absolute belief that he should enroll his desired university without another ronin life, but only now, his thought is that examinees should enter their favorite university even when they had to experience a ronin life.
In those days, he couldn’t recognize his whole life objectively in the long run, simultaneously, none of those involved wouldn’t recommend that almost all examinees should have the right to spend another ronin year.

図書室の受験生を見ると昔を思い出す。夏休みは８月の最終日まであった。その40日間に重要な英単語は全て覚えたいと思った。温暖化現象は話題になく夏でも窓を開けて勉強できた。
Various examinees are busy in their studies in the library.
When he was an examinee, he could spend about 40 days as summer holidays, when he couldn’t afford to do anything except his studies because he wanted to memorize almost all of the English vocabularies provided in the entrance examination, and he could attain his aims during the appointed term, which enabled him to figure out what was written in English when he took an exams.
He didn’t have to close any windows in the room with an air conditioner on because global warming phenomenon failed to be a deadly, lethal and critical issue, he says.

京都にある英語で有名な私大は第一希望ではなかった。そもそも合格できるとは思っていなかった。彼は英語と歴史だけは得意だった。私立大学ならその２科目で合格できるシステムだ。
There was the prestigious university famous for English, which wasn’t one of his desired universities, in the first place, his ability failed to reach such a high level.
He had a confidence to gain high scores about Japanese history and English, which enabled him to obtain a reception letter from a respectable university, he knew.

受験は得意科目を活かすのがいいと思う。彼の苦手な電気抵抗や三角関数は社会で必要ない。社会で必要なのは仲間を作って複雑な環境をうまく乗り越えていく能力だ。学校は教えない。
An examinee should take advantage of his or her favorite subjects, only now, he doesn’t have any knowledge about math, science, geography, physics and so on.
He didn’t have experience to study electrical resistances or trigonometric functions, which couldn’t make a vital difference in our daily life, in short, something useless.
What requires ordinary citizens to do might be an ability to make friends with someone credible, simultaneously, to overcome such a complicated surroundings with the help of someone believable, which schools don’t tell.