英語検定ライティング準１級（第478回）

正面衝突「照明のくらいトンネルの話」

２ヶ月前にウルトラマンをやっつけた怪獣に復讐するために身体を鍛えてプロレスラーになった人物のことを書いた。なかなかの傑作だと自負している。たまにアクセスしてくれる読者もいる。かなり変わった職業選択に驚くと同時に心も惹かれる。
We wrote an article about the person who became an extremely famous wrestler “Akira Maeda,” who trained his physical muscles to take the revenge on the space monster, which had brought the “Ultraman” in the first generation into the deadly, lethal and critical situations, and we consider this highly evaluated article as a kind of masterpiece, and this had attracted numerous readers.
He has had an extremely peculiar choice of professions, which might be something amazing to ordinary citizens.

第一図書館で常に貸出中の人気小説を第二図書館で見つけて気分が上がっている。文庫本ではないので少し扱いにくい。地面師の第二シーズンはすでに読んでいる。犯人側の手口はほぼ同じだ。著者の出世作を読むと買い主を騙す手法は充分分かる。
We have found an extremely popular and famous novel about the notorious fraudulent swindlers in the second library, which enables us to feel delightful and moved.
It is because we couldn’t borrow this novel in the first library, which closes on Mondays, an online article says.
However, we found the book with the hard covers, which makes us feel it challenging to handle with one hand, otherwise, we wanted to borrow the paper back type.
We have already finished reading the “Tokyo Fraudulent Swindlers” in the second season, where their methods to deceive the landowners should be the almost same.
A certain novel about the real estate written by the same author makes us understand their complicated tricks to steal what someone innocent has in the bank accounts.

昨日の夕方のこと。隣県で仲間の集まりがあった。帰宅中のトンネルで急に車の流れが停滞した。迂回するのにも時間がかかった。２時間はロスした。翌日のネット記事で事情は分かった。正面衝突とのこと。照明が暗いので危ないと思っていた。
Yesterday we participated in the companions session in the next prefecture, but on our way home, the streaming of the cars suddenly stopped without being informed of the reason, which forced us to waste our precious time.
After all, we could come home at 21:00, although we usually come back at 19:00, which meant we lost about a couple of hours because we had to take another route to the center of Hiroshima city, to our disappointments.
The next morning, the Internet news reported that such traffic jams were caused by the catastrophic accidents.
Two cars crashed each other in the tunnel without any shining lights, which makes us feel that this road seems dangerous, frightening and threatening, everyone knows.