英語検定ライティング準１級（第318回）

エッセイ「長い小説を読む体力がない話」

プロ野球の記事を見ていたら広島の監督が憤慨していた。現在の戦力で首位にいるのは奇跡ですねと質問されて「失礼だ。」と言ったとか。もちろんユーモアたっぷりに返したのだと思う。
When he read an article about the professional baseball, he found that the director of Hiroshima became furious about the interviewer’s questions whether it is a miracle that his favorite team has been in the leading position of the central league or not since such questions seemed a little insulting to those involved, after all, the director denied something impolite in the humorous viewpoints.

ネット記事は長い内容でも読むのに数分もかからない。誰かと共通の話題がほしい時に適切な長さだ。何年も前になるが好きな作家のエッセイは読んでいた。意外にも図書室にはない。
It might take him only a few minutes to read an online article, which should be appropriate when we have an enjoyable conversation with our acquaintances, he says.
About two decades ago, he had a habit to read his favorite authors’ essays, but those ones are absent from the library he frequently utilizes these days, we assume.

図書室の利用は主に受験勉強だと統計にもある。高齢者は新聞を読んでいる。新聞はそんなに読む箇所がないので購読しないで図書室で読むのがコスト的にいい。それはいい考えだなあ。
Numerous examinees utilize the silent space in the local library, an online statistics says, which might be the most ideal place for the examinees because they don’t have to waste a large amount of electricity at home, we assume.
Several senior citizens read a newspaper because they don’t subscribe it, in the first place, which doesn’t have what we should read, in short, it isn’t worth reading.
He has only to read what he wants to read contained in a paper, especially, something about the baseball games’ results in the library, which could save him paper’s costs.
This might be delightful and reasonable idea, he says.

長い小説を読む体力がなくなったのはアニメのせいだ。サブスクを利用すれば低価格でいろんなものが観れる。それに慣れてしまうと読書は体力がいる。本当は活字を読むことをしたい。
In recent years, he has lost something energetic to read a long novel because he has been accustomed to seeing various kinds of anime series with streaming services, which he uses with the subscription means at a low cost.
When he has been used to the system, he might have lost enthusiasms and passions enough to read a book.
But he originally wants to read a long and long novel.