英語検定ライティング準１級（第485回）

石油危機「ティッシュペーパーが品薄な話」

日本にいる中国人が日本人を馬鹿にする要因の一つとして英語が話せないことだ。警察に捕まった中国人が英語で話しても警官が日本語しか話せないので馬鹿にする。そういうところにも日本の英語教育が機能していないことが暴露されているのだ。
There have been various Chinese people in our society, several of whom might be potential criminals, and they tend to despise Japanese police because almost all of them won’t have any abilities to speak English, he says.
When a Chinese criminal should be arrested, they would deal with a Japanese policeman in English, naturally, the latter fails to have proper conversations with the former in English, when the former knows the latter cannot have any discussions, after all, the latter leaves the former.
Of course, a Chinese thief should be someone vicious, but a Japanese policeman should have conversations in English, which might be caused by the fact that English education fails to function well at schools, she assumes.
In conclusion, the current English education hasn’t made us world citizens with a command of foreign languages.

彼が大学生の頃は学生運動は盛んではなかった。講義の前に黒板の前で何かを主張する者もいたが座っている学生は興味を持たなかった。正門前でカンパを要求する者もいた。資本主義と共産主義の違いを質問してみても良かったのかなと今は思う。
When he was in the university, the students’ movements weren’t something passionate and enthusiastic at all.
He sometimes encountered someone leftism in front of the blackboard, who insisted his opinion and suggestion towards him, but almost all of the students might not be interested in what the speaker said in the least, he says.
Another leftist tried to collect several funds in front of the gate, who couldn’t gain any small coins at all, she says.
He didn’t have any ideas about the differences between the capitalism and the communism, but he didn’t have any attitudes to ask such trivial questions, she assumes.

貯蓄禁止という言葉が頭から離れない。動画を観ていたら文化大革命について話をする世界史の先生がその言葉を発した。共産主義は結果が平等だったら努力する意欲が失われるのは知っていた。余剰をストックして飢饉に備えることが禁止とはな。
There used to be the principle that ordinary citizens were prohibited from storing extra products in China in 1960’s and in 1970’s, which could be expressed by the phrase “Public Commune,”which caused the disastrous famines.
He happened to encounter the video streaming services, where a certain expert about the world history should describe the notorious Great Cultural Revolution.
Almost all of us have learned that ordinary employees should lose their passions and aggressiveness when they are offered the same outcomes whether they should be profitable or unproductive, however, this must be the first time to know that they should be banned to stock surplus crops in the warehouses during the harvest, he assumes.