桐壺185：その夜、おとどの御さとに、源氏の君まかでさせ給ふ。
その夜、左大臣の邸に源氏の君が訪れた。
N君：That night, Genji visited the Minister's Villa.
S先生：visit のあとに to を付ける人がいるので気をつけましょう。visit は普通は他動詞です。
That night Genji visited the Minister's residence.
私は昭和10年(1935)広島の生まれで令和３年の現在86歳です。10歳のときに広島で経験した原爆の恐ろしさ・悲しさを記録に残しておきたくて英文のエッセイを作りました。今日から４回にわたって連続して書いていくので特に若い皆さんに読んでもらいたいです。英作文の勉強にもなると思うので、できれば dictation してじっくり眺めてほしいです。1回1回の分量はそれほど多くないので安心してください。題は「The Saddest Day in my Life (Monday, August 6, 1945)」です。
The year 1945 began. The war was not going in our favor. The Japanese soldiers had been preferring honorable deaths (玉砕) to surrender on the islands (Saipan, Guam,,,,,) in the South Pacific. And the air raids were getting more and more violent in the main cities. Especially the raid made by B29 on Tokyo on March 10 was an inhumane one. The aim of the raid was nothing but killing sinless civilians by dropping innumerable incendiary bombs. More than one hundred thousand people, men and women, young and old, were mercilessly burnt to death.
Precautionary warning began to be issued almost everyday in Hiroshima, too. When the warning was announced, we schoolchildren were made to go home right away. So we rather welcomed the warnings, because we were freed from strict, violent lessons. At about 10 on March 18, a warning was issued as usual. We left school for home at once, jumping for joy.
But as soon as I got home, an air raid alarm siren wailed weirdly. All of a sudden, nosediving from above the hill behind, a few Grumman Fighters began to strike. The sounds were earsplitting. I was clinging to my mother trembling with fear in the shelter. Much to our sorrow, one of the bombs killed all the members of a family in my neighborhood. And almost all the window glasses of our school were broken to pieces. If we had stayed at school, how many pupils would have been killed ?
N君：これはもう英作文の勉強などというなまやさしいものではなくなりました。ここに書かれている一言一句を我々若い者が心に刻む必要があります。次回からの続きがどうなるのか、目が離せません。
