英文速読　初級-19

　When human infants comes into being in any community in any part of the world, it has two things in common with any other infant. First of all, newborn children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to draw attention to their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from some other human being, be it mother or father, an infant is not liable to survive.
　The helplessness is characteristic of a human infant, and is in contrast with the capacity of many newborn animals to stand up within minutes of birth. They don’t even have difficulty running with the *herd within a few hours. Since young animals are certainly in danger, sometimes for weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infant, they quickly develop the capacity to protect themselves. However, the human infant is in need of others for a very long time. During this long time period, the human develops the second feature which it shares with all other human infants, the capacity to learn languages. It goes without saying that language is specific to and indispensable to the human race.

　スラッシュを前置詞・接続詞・関係詞の前に入れて文頭から文末へ読み下して行きます。

　When human infants comes into being /in any community /in any part of the world, it has two things /in common with any other infant. First of all, newborn children are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity /to draw attention to their helplessness /by using sound, there is nothing the new born child can do /to ensure his own survival. Without care from some other human being, be it mother or father, an infant is not liable to survive.

　人間の幼児が生まれる時、どんな社会に、世界のどの地域の、幼児はふたつの点を持つ、他のすべての幼児と共通の。第一に新生児は完全に無力だ。強力な能力とは別に彼らの無力さに注意をひくための、声を使うことによって、新生児ができることは何もない彼らの生存を確実なものにするために。だれか他の人からの世話が無ければそれが母であれ父であれ、幼児は生存しそうにない。

　The helplessness is characteristic of a human infant, and is in contrast /with the capacity of many newborn animals /to stand up within minutes of birth. They don’t even have difficulty running /with the herd within a few hours. Since young animals are certainly in danger, sometimes for weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infant, they quickly develop the capacity /to protect themselves. However, the human infant is in need of others /for a very long time. During this long time period, the human develops the second feature /which it shares with all other human infants, the capacity to learn languages. It goes without saying /that language is specific to and indispensable /to the human race.

　この無力さは人間の幼児の特徴である、そしてそれは対照的だ、多くの新たに生まれた動物の能力と、生まれて数分以内に立ち上がるための。彼らは走る苦労さえしない、群れと共に、数時間内に。動物の子供たちは確かに危険にさらされているので数週間あるいは数か月の間、生後、人間の幼児と比べて、能力を発達させる、素早く自己を防衛するための。しかし、人間の幼児は他者を必要としている、他者を、とても長い間。この長い間に人間の幼児は第2の特徴を発達させる、全ての他の幼児と共有する、言語を学ぶ能力を。それは言うまでもない、言語が特有であり、不可欠であることは、人類にとって。