英語検定ライティング準１級（第247回）

小学生「歩きタバコが禁止になった話」

静岡の話と聞いている。路上喫煙を禁止する条例が制定されたのはある１人のこどもの訴えがきっかけになったと。喘息持ちだったこどもが歩きタバコの通行人とすれ違ったらしいのだ。
There was an opportunity to know an essential story that a certain prefecture determined their own regulation about the street smoking being banned, to his joy.
A certain elementary school pupil’s suggestion enabled numerous ordinary citizens to pay attention to such an undesirable behavior, which collected a tremendous number of signatures from various kinds of people.
He had suffered from terrible asthma, when someone with a cigarette passed by him, who was narrowly burned on his face, at which he felt furious, he assumes.

大人の歩きタバコはこどものちょうど顔当たりになる。それで火傷になることもある。そもそも喫煙場所はどこでも限られているので路上も駄目だ。こどもの訴えは署名をかなり集めた。
A cigarette an adult carries on the street is likely to burn a child’s face because both’s heights are the same.
In the first place, the number of place where an adult can smoke has been limited in our society in recent years, which means that they cannot smoke on the streets.
The pupil’s passionate appeal collected a tremendous number of signatures, which made a vital difference.

宮城の老害議員が議会中にツムツムをスマホでしていた。それを摘発したのもこどもの感想文だった。素朴な疑問ほど強いものはない。それは大人になるに連れてなくなるものなのだよ。
Last month, a harmful senior and elderly congressman played the game called “Tsumutsumu” during the council meeting, which was exposed to the ordinary citizens by several children’s compositions at the elementary school.
An unsophisticated question a child has in the brain might make a significant difference in our society.
However, such a sense has a fortune to fade out as we grow up to become an ordinary citizen, to our sorrow.

消費税も当たり前だとみんな思っている。日本は借金だらけだから消費税がもっと上がってもいいと思っている。みんな騙されている。日本に借金などない。借金以上に資産があるから。
Almost all ordinary citizens in our society might take the consumption taxation for granted, at the same time, a tremendously large number of general public have been betrayed by the official announcement that the consumption taxation must be raised because Japan has suffered from frightening and threatening debt.
Japan, in fact, hasn’t had any debts because our nation has had much more properties, to our astonishment.