英語検定ライティング準１級（第291回）

究極の感情「あれほどイライラした話」

２年前の９月のこと。強烈なイライラ感を朝から抱いていた。不謹慎だが暗殺された元総理大臣の国葬がおこなわれた日だ。税金は使うべきではない。国民がみんな支持するなら別だ。
In September in 2022, he has been extremely irritated since the early morning, when the ex-prime minister’s national funeral took place, which forced him to feel so, although he mustn’t say such a rude thing in a loud voice because mentioning other’s death is inappropriate.
But he disagrees with the idea that our bloody taxes should be spent on a certain person’s funeral in the case that all the ordinary citizens in our society couldn’t evaluate his achievements and accomplishments highly.

彼が総理大臣として日本にしたことは功罪が当然ある。妻の友人が学校を創立するのに格安で土地を提供したとか。世の知名人を集めて大袈裟なパーティしたりとか。税金も無駄にして。
When he was the prime minister in Japan, he would sometimes make positive contributions and sometimes make negative ones to our society, which is natural.
For example, he offered the construction land at a low price when his wife’s friends founded the school.
For instance, he held the gorgeous and exaggerated party full of numerous famous and popular celebrities, which wasted a tremendously large amount of taxes.

葬式は参加者から徴収すればいい。朝から腹が立って仕方がなかった。そのイライラのせいで事故を起こした。前方車を確認せずに右折して廃車になった。相手の車も保険を使うことに。
When the government wants to hold his funeral, its expenses should be collected by all the participants, which must be Japanese common sense, we assume.
He had been furious about their immoral attitude toward our bloody taxes since the early morning, after all, his extreme irritation forced him to bring himself into the narrowly deadly, lethal and critical traffic accident.
The car he drove turned right before making sure that an oncoming car should be absent, the collision of which made both cars be narrowly scrapped, to our regret.
His insurance had to cover both of the repair costs.

車の運転は平常心でなくてはならない。夜の運転の前に広島の試合結果は見ないことにしている。イライラや焦りは状況を悪化させる。増税は社会全体を混乱させ治安も悪くなるだろう。
We should keep our temper when we drive a car.
He makes it a rule not to be informed of the baseball matches’ results during the night drive from his workplace to his residence because they are likely to break his temper, as a result, both his impatience and irritation never fails to make negative contributions to his situation, after all, the taxation increase would have negative influences on the whole society, simultaneously, which causes the public disorders, an online article says.