The Science Of Getting Rich [Full Seminar] With Bob Proctor
2：00 ボブ・プロクターが登場。DECISIONの重要性から話を始めます。
6:01 大きな影響を与えてくれた人としてRaymond Douglas Stanfordを紹介。
6：45 To change you life, you need to change your life! 人生を変えたければ、人生を変えないといけない！ これは言葉遊びではない。どうやってこれを実践するかを今から教えます。
9：20 ナポレオン・ヒルの本を紹介。外側（＝暮らし）を変えたければ、内側（＝考え方）から変えないと駄目。
46:15 人生を変える方法。まず第一に自分の今の居場所を知ること。ゴールにフォーカスするのは当然として、これができていない人が多い。第二番目として、どこに向かいたいのかを知ること。
スティーブ ・ジョブズが2005年にスタンフォード大学の卒業式で行ったスピーチの動画です。何をしたいのかわからない、どんな生き方をすべきか悩んでいる人にはお勧めの動画です。生きる指針を与えてくれます。自分もときどき見返すのですが、毎回違う部分の言葉が心に刺さります。原稿はスタンフォード大学のウェブサイトで見ることができます（リンク）。この原稿と実際に話された語句には若干異なる部分があります。
大学を中退してマッキントッシュを作って売るための会社を興したスティーブ・ジョブズなので、こうして招かれて祝辞を述べる機会を与えられたことが、自分にとって一番大学卒業に近い経験だとジョークを言っています。
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
点（Dots)というのは人生の若い頃にあれこれ様々なことに熱中することを指しています。一見ばらばらなことを夢中でやっててもそれが将来何の役に立つのかその時にはまったくわかりませんが、いつかかならずバラバラに見えた点が一つにつながって大きなことを成し遂げるのに役立つという話。
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
このような公の場で、彼は自分の出生の秘密を語りました。実は養子だったのです。このスピーチでは触れていませんが、実際には養子として出されたことが彼の心に大きな影響を与えていたことは、映画「スティーブ・ジョブズ」などでは描かれています。養子を希望する最初の夫婦は女の子が欲しかったため、生まれた結果男の子とわかり、順番待ちリスト上で2番目だった夫婦に希望するかどうかの連絡がなされました。生みの親は大学出の両親という条件をつけていたのですが、スティーブを養子にもらうことを希望していた夫婦は、妻は大学を出ておらず、夫は高校すら出ていないことが判明してしまい、養子縁組を認めない産みの親と引き取った側の夫婦との間での訴訟問題に発展してしまいました。折角養子として受け入れた赤ちゃんを奪われるかもしれないという状態で何ヶ月かを過ごした育ての親は、その間、心理的には非常に大変な状態だったようです。結局、スティーブを大学にやるということを妥協案として双方が合意するに至り、訴訟は決着をみました。ところが、馬鹿高い学費はこの労働者階級の夫婦にとっては全人生をかけた貯蓄に相当するものだったため、大学を卒業することに意義を見出せなかったスティーブは両親が貯めたお金が勿体ないからと、大学を中退することを決意したのでした。
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
スティーブ・ジョブズはアップル社をスティーブ・ウォズニアックと二人で始めました。そして瞬く間に大きな会社に成長したわけですが、あろうことか、自分たつくったアップル社の経営陣と対立してクビになってしまいます。そこからどうやって立ち直ることができたのか、そのときの心の持ち方について語られます。
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
自分が創業したアップルから解雇されたことは、煉瓦で突然頭を殴られたような衝撃だったと言っています。人生においてはそんなこともあるが、そのときに自分の信念を失わないことだと言います。
スティーブ ・ジョブズは膵臓癌を患いました。手術不能と当初診断され余命いくばくも無いことを医師に告げられたため、死と向かいあって生きることになりました。
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
３つのストーリーが語られたあと、全地球カタログの話とそこからのフレーズが紹介されて、祝辞が締めくくられます。
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
ジョニー・デップはもともと反トランプの姿勢を明らかにしていましたが、過激すぎる発言をして炎上しました。うっかり口を滑らせたというよりも、注意深く言葉を選んでギリギリの線を狙ったような発現です。
Can we bring Trump here? トランプをここに連れて来れるかな？
I think he needs help and there are a lot of wonderful dark, dark places he could go. 彼は助けが必要だと思うよ。彼が行くことができる素晴らしい、暗い、暗い場所がたくさんある。
It is just a question – I’m not insinuating anything. ただの質問だよ。何かを仄めかしているわけじゃない。
By the way, this is going to be in the press. It will be horrible. I like that you are all a part of it. ところで、これは報道されちゃうと思うけど。大変なことになりそう。みんなを巻き込みたいね。
When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? 最後に俳優が大統領を殺したのっていつだっけ？
I want to clarify, I am not an actor. はっきりさせときたいんだけど、自分は俳優じゃないよ。
I lie for a living. 自分はウソをつくことで生計をたててるんだ。
However, it has been a while and maybe it is time. でも、ずいぶん久しくなるし、そろそろその時なんじゃないの。
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メキシコとアメリカの国境で、16歳のメキシコ人の少年が持っていた液体のメタンフェタミンのボトルが本当にジュースなんだったら飲んでみろと国境検査官にいわれて飲んだところ急性中毒になって死亡するという事件が2013年にありました。メキシコの少年の家族は、検査官らに子供を殺されたとして訴えていましたが、検査官らは少年が自分から進んで飲んだのだと説明していました。このたび、そのときの様子を記録したセキュリティカメラの映像が公開され、検査官が少年に”ジュース”を飲むように指示しているように見えたことから、物議を醸しています。
（人）に～させる の英語表現が多数報道に出てきていますが、これらの英語表現を理解することは今回のニュースを正しく把握する上で重要になります。
encourage （人） to do ～ （人）が～することを奨励する
allow （人） to do ～ （人）が～することを容認する
The two officers encouraged him to drink the mixture. その二人の職員は彼がその混合液を飲むことを勧めた。
The two officers allowed him to drink the mixture. その二人の職員は彼がその混合液を飲むことを許した。
Velazquez died within two hours of consuming the fatal substance, but the two officers who appear to have encouraged (or at least allowed him) to drink the mixture have faced virtually no consequences for their actions. (heavy.com)
tell （人） to do ～ （人）に～するように言う
The two agents told the young man to drink the liquid. 二人の職員は若者にその液体を飲むように言った（命じた）。
The lawsuit, which alleged wrongful death, assault and batter, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, specifically stated that the “the two agents told [the] young man to drink the liquid to prove to them that it was fruit juice and not a drug.” (heavy.com)
suggest that 主語（人） 動詞（原形） （人）が～することを勧める
I suggested that he drink some strong coffee and take a hot shower. 私は彼に濃いコーヒーでも飲んで熱いシャワーを浴びることを勧めた。(Thinking Smarter by Steve Richfield 122ページ）
ask （人） to do ～ （人）に～することを依頼する
I asked him to drink it. 私は彼にそれを飲むように言った。
Cruz Velazquez:亡くなった16歳のメキシコの少年
Valerie Baird（女性）、Adrian Perallon（男性）：二人の職員
While video of the encounter shows that both officers made hand gestures that seemed to encourage Velazquez to drink from one of the bottles, during their depositions, both officers denied under oath that they had done anything wrong.
Perallon blamed Velazquez: “I never suggested or asked him to drink,” he said. “He volunteered to drink.”
But Baird blamed Perallon: “He proposed to me that he should ask Cruz if he would be willing to take a drink,” she said. “He said he does it all the time in primary, and I said, ‘If that’s what you want to do.’” Perallon denied this interaction took place.
Nina Signorello, the officer who tried to help Velazquez while he was in the security office and later drove Baird to the hospital, provided what Iredale considers the key piece of evidence, testifying that Baird was initially worried that she would lose her job if someone ultimately blamed her.
“Oh my God, I asked him to drink it,” Baird said, according to Signorello’s testimony. Baird denied that, saying her fellow officer must have “misunderstood.” （Video reveals how actions of US border officers led to tragedy. ABC NEWS）
make （人） 動詞（原形不定詞） （人）に～するように（強制して）させる
The agents made him drink liquid methamphetamine. 職員らは、彼に液体のメタンフェタミンを飲ませた。
A 16-year-old Mexican boy suffered a painful death after US border patrol agents made him drink liquid methamphetamine disguised as juice. (metro.co.uk)
urge （人）to do ～ （人）に～要請する、強く勧める
The officers urged him to drink the liquid．職員らは少年にその液体を飲むことを要請した。
The family of a 16-year-old boy who died from acute meth intoxication after Customs and Border Patrol officers asked him to “prove” that a liquid he tried to cross the border with was juice will receive $1 million. But the officers who urged him to drink the liquid meth that led to his death have kept their jobs. (aol.com)
ABC 20/20 Tragic Incident At US-Mexico Border (Full Episodes 2017) (40:25)
TOEICの公式サイトでは受験の申し込みができるだけでなく、リスニングなどの練習もできます。たとえば、電子書籍のプロモーションプランをクライアントにプレゼンテーションする際の会話を聞いて、理解力を試す設問に答えるということができます（http://www.iibc-global.org/toeic/support/englishupgrader/presentations.html）。出題内容はかなりビジネスよりなので、こういう仕事をしない人にはちょっとツライかもしれませんが、本当にこういったシチュエーションで仕事をしている人にとっては、そのままフレーズを借用できてよいかもしれませんね。
2001年の大学入試センターの長文問題 問５は読み応えがあります。
Going to the shore on the first morning of the vacation, Jerry stopped and looked at a wild and rocky bay, and then over to the crowded beach he knew so well from other years. His mother looked back at him.
“Are you tired of the usual beach, Jerry?”
“Oh, no!” he said quickly, but then said, “I’d like to look at those rocks down there.”
“Of course, if you like.”
Jerry watched his mother go, then ran straight into the water and began swimming. He was a good swimmer. He swam out over the gleaming sand and then he was in the real sea.
He saw some older, local boys — men, to him — sitting on the rocks. One smiled and waved. It was enough to make him feel welcome. In a minute, he had swum over and was on the rocks beside them. Then, as he watched, the biggest of the boys dived into the water, and did not come up. Jerry gave a cry of alarm, but after a long time the boy came up on the other side of a big dark rock, letting out a shout of victory. Immediately the rest of them dived and Jerry was alone. He counted the seconds they were under water: one, two, three… fifty… one hundred. At one hundred and sixty, one, then another, of the boys came up on the far side of the rock and Jerry understood that they had swum through some gap or hole in it. He knew then that he wanted to be like them. He watched as they swam away and then swam to shore himself.
Next day he swam back to the rocks. There was nobody else there. He looked at the great rock the boys had swum through. He could see no gap in it. He dived down to its base, again and again. It took a long time, but finally, while he was holding on to the base of the rock, he shot his feet out forward and they met no obstacle. He had found the hole.
In the days that followed, Jerry hurried to the rocks every morning and exercised his lungs as if everything, the whole of his life, depended on it. He counted how long he could hold his breath. Each day he improved his time. Even back at home he timed himself by the clock, and was proud to find he could hold his breath for two minutes. The authority of the clock brought close the adventure that was so important to him.
The day after tomorrow, his mother reminded him casually one morning, they must go home. He swam straight out to the rock and looked down into the water. This was the moment when he would try. If he did not do it now, he never would. He filled his lungs, started to count, and dived to the bottom.
He was soon inside the dark, narrow hole. The water pushed him up against the roof. The roof was sharp and hurt his back. He pulled himself along with his hands — fast, fast. His head knocked against something; a sharp pain dizzied him. He counted: one hundred… one hundred and fifteen. The hole had widened! He gave himself a kick forward and swam as fast as he could. He lost track of time and said one hundred and fifteen to himself again. Then he saw light. Victory filled him. His hands, reaching forward, met nothing; and his feet propelled him out into the open sea. He floated to the surface, pulled himself up onto the rock and lay face down, catching his breath. After a time he felt better and sat up. Then he swam to shore and climbed slowly up the path to the house.
His mother came to meet him, smiling.
“Have a nice time?” she asked.
“Oh, yes, thank you,” he said.
“How did you cut your head?”
“Oh, I just cut it.”
They sat down to lunch together.
“Mom,” he said, “I can hold my breath for two minutes — three minutes.”
“Can you, darling?” she said. “Well, you shouldn’t overdo it. You look a bit pale. I don’t think you ought to swim any more today.”
She was ready for a battle of wills, but he gave in at once. It was no longer of the least importance to go to the bay.
こうしてみると、昔のセンター試験は結構難しい長文を出題していたと思います。
He watched as they swam away のwatchの目的語がないことやasに引っ掛かるひとがいるかもしれません。watchは他動詞として使われることが多いですが、自動詞もあります。この文章でも、
Jerry watched his mother go ジェリーは母親が立ち去るのを見た。（watchは他動詞）
Then, as he watched, the biggest of the boys dived into the water, and did not come up. そして、彼が見ていると、グループで一番大きな少年が水の中に飛び込み、上がって来なかった。（watchは自動詞）
といった使われ方をしています。
He watched as they swam awayの中で使われているasは、whenやwhileと同じ意味で、「～している間」です。ここでは、as以下のことを見ていた、という意味になります。似た表現をインターネット上から拾ってみます。
He watched as they looked around the coffee shop, knowing they couldn’t recognize him. (A Warming Trend by Pamela Toth) 彼は、気付かれる恐れがないことを確信しながら、彼らがコーヒーショップの中を見て回るのを眺めていた。
he watched as they bullied one certain classmate of his. 彼は、クラスメイトの特定の一人が彼らに虐められるのを見ていた。 （出典：http://w11.zetaboards.com/Pokemon_Godai/topic/30035251/1/）
The authority of the clock brought close the adventure that was so important to him. はかなり訳しにくいようです。まず構文は、主語がThe authority of the clock、動詞がbring。これは他動詞で、目的語がthe adventure that was so important to himです。closeは副詞で、「近くへ」という意味です。closeが副詞なのは、たとえば、
Bring him here. 彼をここに連れてきなさい。
What brings you here? なぜあなたはここに来たの？
などの例文を考えると、同じ形であることが理解できるでしょう。
わかりにくいのは、The authority of the clockの意味するところが何か？ということでしょう。authorityの辞書的な意味、「権威」を知っているのは当然としてもそれだけではしっくりきません。単語の意味を決めるのは文脈ですから、The authority of the clockが出てくる前の部分をよく読んで意味を掴むことが重要になります。clock（時計）やtime（時間）に関する単語に注意して前の部分を見て見ると、ジェリー少年は、海に潜って遊ぶ少年らがどれくらい潜水していたかの秒数を数えています。
He counted the seconds they were under water: one, two, three… fifty… one hundred. At one hundred and sixty, ジェリーは、彼らが水の中にいる秒数を数えた：１、２、３、、、５０、、１００．１６０数えたところで、
ジェリー少年はどれだけ長く息を止められるかに挑戦し始めます。
He counted how long he could hold his breath. Each day he improved his time. Even back at home he timed himself by the clock, and was proud to find he could hold his breath for two minutes. 彼はどれくらい長く息を止めていられるかを測った。一日ごとに彼は記録を更新した。家にいるときも彼は時計（the clock）で時間を計った。そして、2分間の間息を止めていられるようになったことがわかり誇らしく思った。
ここまで読んでくれば、「時計の権威」の意味がわかります。ジェリー少年がどれくらい長く息を止めていられるかを示す、絶対的な指標というわけです。自分でひとつ、ふたつ、と時間を数えるのは客観性がなく、絶対的ではありませんが、時計はきちんと時を刻むので、時計の言うことは絶対に正しい、という意味で「権威」なのです。そういうつもりでもう一度辞書を良く読んでみると、「典拠、よりどころ；出典：on the authority of … … をよりどころとして」という意味（訳語）も書いてあることに気づきます（参照：研究者英和中辞典第６版）。よって、
The authority of the clock brought close the adventure that was so important to him. 時計で測定した記録が拠り所となり、彼にとって非常に大きな意味を持つ冒険を実行すべき時が近づいた。
と訳せます。もちろん、意味が同じならどう訳して構いません。英単語と日本語の言葉を1対1で丸暗記すると応用が利かないので危険です。かならず、その意味するところが何かを考えるクセをつけましょう。
It was no longer of the least importance to go to the bay.も引っ掛かる人が多い文です。no longer は、「もはや～でない」という意味。of the least importanceは、「最小の重要性」。となると、二重否定で肯定なのか？と思ってしまう人が出てきそうなところです。この長文を頭から読んでストーリーがつかめていれば、no longer of the least importanceは内容的に、「もはやまったく重要ではなかった」の意味しかありません。
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小林麻央さんがBBCに寄せたエッセイの最後の部分に、
例えば、私が今死んだら、
人はどう思うでしょうか。
「まだ34歳の若さで、可哀想に」
「小さな子供を残して、可哀想に」
でしょうか？？
私は、そんなふうには思われたくありません。
なぜなら、病気になったことが
私の人生を代表する出来事ではないからです。
私の人生は、夢を叶え、時に苦しみもがき、
愛する人に出会い、
2人の宝物を授かり、家族に愛され、
愛した、色どり豊かな人生だからです。
だから、
与えられた時間を、病気の色だけに
支配されることは、やめました。
なりたい自分になる。人生をより色どり豊かなものにするために。
だって、人生は一度きりだから。
「だって、人生は一度きり」という言葉がありますが、これは英語で何ていうのでしょうか？
有名な言い回しとして、
You only live once.
があります。この英文そのままのタイトルを持つ書籍がたくさん出版されています。YOLOと略されることもあります。小林麻央さんのエッセイの場合は、主語が突然Youになるとおかしいので、We only live once. でしょう。
書籍からいくつか例文を拾って確認しておきます。
“We only live once” That’s the saying most of us have heard throughout our life.(出典：An Introvert’s Guide: How to Be Happy Being an Introvert & Face Criticism in an Extrovert Society: (Shyness, Quiet, Introverted, & Social Anxiety) by Vo Quynh Yen)
Similarly to The Leader, the film We Only Live Once represented the relationship of class with masculinity in a way which allowed the majority of lower class men to identify with the protagonist.(出典：Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema: 1949-1967 by Achilleas Hadjikyriacou, 163 ページ)
“You only live once But if you do it right Once is enough.” “We only live once” the professor of philosophy told me.(出典：MAKING THE BEST OUT OF LIFE by Chibesa Emmanuel, page 4)
I don’t like the fact that I got sick, but it did teach me as a person that we only live once and we need to enjoy the time that we are granted here on this earth. (出典：B+, You Only Live Once by Kristen Hutter)
If we only live once, let’s make decisions that support a healthy and financially stress-free lifestyle.（出典：You Only Live Once:The Roadmap to Financial Wellness and a Purposeful Life by Jason Vitug2016, page 9）
If we only live once, why not enjoy every transition of our lives to its fullest from childhood to adolescence to adulthood and thus enter our retirement years looking and feeling fantastic. (出典：THE JOY OF REAL FOOD by Rowena Jayne)
We only live once so let’s make the most of it (出典：Church and Religion in Rural England by Douglas James Davies)
It is engrained in our heads that we are all separate from each other and that we only live once. (出典：Taking the Mask Off: Destroying the Stigmatic Barriers of Mental Health and Addiction Using a Spiritual Solution (English Edition) by Cortland Pfeffer, Irwin Ozborne)
（出典：グーグルブックス）
「だって、」を英語にどう訳すか？という問題もあります。「だって、」にちょうと対応する英単語はありません。ここでは内容的に「だって」を訳出しなくても十分だと思います。
元テレビアナウンサーで闘病生活をブログで綴っていた小林麻央（こばやし まお）さんが2017年6月22日夜に療養中の自宅で息を引き取りました。34歳という若さです。BBCの2016年に世界に影響を与えた女性100人のうちの一人にも選ばれるなど、がんとの闘いを包み隠さずブログに書いて、大きな反響を呼び起こしていました。
小林麻央さんがBBCに寄稿した「色どり豊かな人生」を英語で読んでみたいと思います。小林麻央さんによる原文は日本語で、英語版はBBCニュースの大井真理子氏による翻訳です。1文ごとの訳でない部分があり、語句に関しても完全な移し変えになっていない部分があります。
Two years ago, when I was 32, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. My daughter was three, my son was only one. 2年前、32歳の時に、私は乳癌であることを宣告されました。娘は3歳、息子はまだ1歳でした。 I thought: “It’ll be OK because I can go back to being how I was before once the cancer is treated and cured.” 「治療をして癌が治れば、元の自分に戻れるのだから、大丈夫！」と思っていました。 But it wasn’t that easy and I still have cancer in my body. けれど、そんなに簡単ではありませんでした。今も、私の身体は、がんと共にあります。
For a long time I hid the disease. Because my job involved appearing on TV I was scared about being associated with illness or showing people my weaknesses. 私は、テレビに出る仕事をしていました。病のイメージをもたれることや弱い姿を見せることには「怖れ」がありました。なので、当時、私は病気を隠すことを選びました。 I would try to avoid being seen on the way to hospital appointments and I stopped communicating with people so as not to be found out.
隠れるように病院へ通い、周囲に知られないよう人との交流を断ち、生活するようになっていきました。
But while wanting to go back to who I was before, I was actually moving more and more towards the shadows, becoming far removed from the person I wanted to be. After living like that for 20 months, my palliative treatment doctor said something that changed my mind.
“Don’t hide behind cancer,” she said, and I realised what had happened. I was using it as an excuse not to live any more.
I had been blaming myself and thinking of myself as a “failure” for not being able to live as I had before. I was hiding behind my pain.
1年8か月、そんな毎日を続けていたある日、緩和ケアの先生の言葉が、私の心を変えてくれました。「がんの陰に隠れないで！」私は気がつきました。元の自分に戻りたいと思っていながら、私は、陰の方に陰の方に、望んでいる自分とはかけ離れた自分になってしまっていたことに。何かの罰で病気になったわけでもないのに、私は自分自身を責め、それまでと同じように生活できないことに、「失格」の烙印を押し、苦しみの陰に隠れ続けていたのです。
Until that time I had been obsessed with being involved in every part of domestic life because that was how my own mother always behaved. それまで私は、全て自分が手をかけないと気が済まなくて、全て全てやるのが母親だと強くこだわっていました。それが私の理想の母親像でした。 But as I got ill, I couldn’t do anything, let alone everything, and in the end, as I was hospitalised, I had to leave my children. けれど、病気になって、全て全てどころか、全くできなくなり、終いには、入院生活で、子供たちと完全に離れてしまいました。
When I was forced to let go of this obsession to be the perfect mother – which used to torture me, body and soul – I realised it had not been worth all the sacrifice I had made. 自分の心身を苦しめたまでのこだわりは失ってみると、それほどの犠牲をはたく意味のあるこだわり（理想）ではなかったことに気づきました。
My family – even though I couldn’t cook for them or drop them off and pick them up at the kindergarten – still accepted me, believed in me and loved me, just like they always had done, as a wife and a mother. そして家族は、私が彼らのために料理を作れなくても、幼稚園の送り迎えができなくても、私を妻として、母として、以前と同じく、認め、信じ、愛してくれていました。
So I decided to step out into the sunlight and write a blog, called Kokoro, about my battle with cancer, and when I did that, many people empathised with me and prayed for me. 私は、そんな家族のために、誇らしい妻、強い母でありたいと思いました。私は、闘病をBlogで公表し、自ら、日向に出る決心をしました。
And they told me, through their comments, of their life experiences, how they faced and overcame their own hardships. It turned out that the world I was so scared of was full of warmth and love and I am now connected with more than one million readers.
すると、たくさんの方が共感し、私のために祈ってくれました。そして、苦しみに向き合い、乗り越えたそれぞれの人生の経験を、（コメント欄を通して）教えてくれました。私が怖れていた世界は、優しさと愛に溢れていました。今、100万人以上の読者の方と繋がっています。
If I died now, what would people think? “Poor thing, she was only 34”? “What a pity, leaving two young children”? 人の死は、病気であるかにかかわらず、いつ訪れるか分かりません。例えば、私が今死んだら、人はどう思うでしょうか。「まだ34歳の若さで、可哀想に」「小さな子供を残して、可哀想に」
でしょうか？？ I don’t want people to think of me like that, because my illness isn’t what defines my life. 私は、そんなふうには思われたくありません。なぜなら、病気になったことが私の人生を代表する出来事ではないからです。
My life has been rich and colourful – I’ve achieved dreams, sometimes clawed my way through, and I met the love of my life. I’ve been blessed with two precious children. My family has loved me and I’ve loved them. 私の人生は、夢を叶え、時に苦しみもがき、愛する人に出会い、2人の宝物を授かり、家族に愛され、愛した、色どり豊かな人生だからです。だから、与えられた時間を、病気の色だけに支配されることは、やめました。
So I’ve decided not to allow the time I’ve been given be overshadowed entirely by disease. I will be who I want to be. なりたい自分になる。人生をより色どり豊かなものにするために。だって、人生は一度きりだから。
英文の出典 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37861457
日本語版の出典 http://www.bbc.com/japanese/features-and-analysis-38073955
英語訳で
because that was how my own mother always behaved
に対応する日本語の原文には自分の母親という言葉がはっきりとは出てきません。しかし、小林麻央のオフィシャルブログに投稿された記事「こだわり 2016-11-09 17:10:07」には、ほぼ同じ文章が登場しており、そこでは自分の母に関する言及があります。
私も実は、病気になる前から誇らしくない母でした。なぜかというと当然なれるだろうと思っていた自分の母のような母になれなかったからです。自信喪失でした。私は、全て自分が手をかけないと気が済まなくて、全て全てやるのが母親だと強くこだわっていました。それが私の理想の母親像でした。
このエッセイの締めくくりの言葉「人生は一度きりだから」が英訳されていないので、別に記事「人生は一度きり You only live once」を書きました。
乗り物で、というときの英語表現のまとめ。
車であなたを駅までに迎えにいきますよ I’ll pick you up by car.
電車で行くよ。 I’ll go by train.
彼らは船で千葉へ行った。 They went to Chiba by ship.
彼らはバスで学校に通う。 They go to school by bus.
タクシーで行きなさい。 Go by taxi.