現在、仕事で米国の法律、「移民国籍法(Immigration and Nationality Act)」の条文の翻訳(英文和訳)を行っている。アメリカ法の和訳は初めての経験だ。「移民国籍法」とは、アメリカ合衆国の移民と国籍に関する事項を定めた1952年の法律をいう(通称「マッカラン=ウォルター法」)。
The County originally accused him of assault and battery, and sexual misconduct charges, but the judge reduced the latter charge to misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
When you meet someone for the first time, you don't know what kind of person he is. Amid somewhat oppressive atmosphere, you might get nervous or feel a little anxious. In such a case, if you can smile at him each other, you will feel as if you could have communicated with each other, and you may think you can talk to him at ease.
A combination of bus and beach will make you feel somewhat nostalgic even if you are not from seaside areas. I think it is probably because such a combination reminds you of the experiences that you went sea bathing by bus, or the memories that you saw such scenes in the movies. This common experience in summer has been in danger of gradually vanishing away. Sad to say, the reduction and abolition of local bus services and the cancellation of the opening of bathing beaches have been spreading in various places in Japan.
There is a general impression that “Speaking of Italy, tomatoes are famous,” however, the origin of tomatoes is not Italy, but South America. Further, it has been a very short time historically since tomatoes came to be eaten as food in Italy, which is over the past two hundred years at the longest. Considering the origin of Italian cuisine that dates back to the ancient Roman times, such years are like a relationship from “yesterday.”
(1)Getting out of the station, she started walking quickly without saying where she was going. I had no choice but to follow behind her. There was always a distance of about one meter between Naoko and me.(2) Of course, I could have narrowed the distance if I wanted to, but I couldn't because I felt somehow hesitant to do so. I walked about one meter behind Naoko, looking at her back and straight black hair. She wore a large brown barrette, and when she turned to the side, I could see her small white ears. From time to time, Naoko looked back and talked to me. Sometimes I could answer her well, but other times I was at a loss how to answer her. Occasionally, I couldn’t even hear what she was saying. But she didn’t seem to care about whether I could hear her or not. (3)After Naoko said only what she wanted to say, she continued to walk forward again. Leave well enough alone, it was a good day for a walk anyway, I thought, and I gave up.
If human beings were immortal, most of their sorrow, anguish, loneliness, etc. would be cleared away from this world. (1)If immortal life were guaranteed, in other words, if eternal futures and possibilities were promised at all times, heartbreaks, failures, and disappointments would almost vanish away.(2)As joy and happiness are only the reverse side of these things, they could no longer be perceived.
(3)Nostalgia, which is a high-order emotion, would disappear because it is closely attached to mortal life. If you are given an infinite amount of time, your passion to make efforts to do something would become feeble. If you don't care about your transient life, your love for others would lose its brilliance, and your affection for flowers and eternal nature will fade away.
(1)Human psychology is so strange that, even if you don’t think a thing is so good at first, however, once you decide to buy it by yourself, you will come to see only the good points in it.(2)That is, even if you are sensitive to defects of a thing before you buy it, however, once you come to own it, you will emphasize only the advantages of it. Therefore, the people who most often see Mercedes-Benz commercials on TV are the customers themselves who currently own Mercedes-Benz vehicles. (3)Once we have made a decision on something by ourselves, we have a habit of moving in a straight line toward it, no matter how ridiculous a situation it may bring about.