英語検定ライティング準１級（第537回）

伊坂幸太郎「殺し屋シリーズの話」

週末の図書館はたくさんの受験生が勉強する。その中で頻繁に空咳をする中年男性がいる。その度に集中力が中断される。若者はイヤホンをしている。邪魔されることを想定しているのだろう。帰ればいいのにと思ってしまう。静寂こそ重要なのだ。
On weekends in the library nearby, there are countless examinees who are doing their studies, but we cannot but become conscious of someone middle-aged, who frequently makes strange sounds, empty cough, and it naturally makes us so uncomfortable, simultaneously, it might be something distracting, and cannot fail to keep us from concentrating on something indispensable.
Almost all young users tend to wear their earphones, and it might protect them from something distracting, but we aren’t equipped with such marvelous items, which forces us to think that such unpleasant seniors would disappear  and vanish from our sacred sanctuary, everyone thinks.
Several young users with their ears protected from these disgusting and unforgivable coughs expect something to destroy their vital and peaceful circumstances, although their useful devices might be something expensive.
Silence and quietness is something blessed in the library.

日曜日はいつものラーメン屋が閉店する。そこで図書館から近いうどん屋で昼飯を食べる。11時に開店するのだが10分前に着かないと外で待つことになる。つまり混んでいる。メニューは高い。食材の高騰を理由にしているが言い訳かもしれない。
It should be one of our routines to eat favorite noodles at the determined shop at noon from Monday to Saturday, which means that the shop would be closed on Sunday.
And such a situation makes us visit a certain restaurant with marvelous reputation, another noodle shop, which is located near the library, which we have to arrive at 10:50 because it might be too crowded for us to start eating at 11:00, in this case, we must wait in front of the entrance until another customer finishes his or her lunch, he says.
Furthermore, almost all of the menus should cost over 1000 yen, which seems a little expensive, although these meals cannot fail to make us satisfied with, he assumes.
The restaurant owner announces that they should make their dishes more expensive because various kinds of the ingredients have cost higher little by little, which seems to be one of the common excuses, an online article says.
Despite this, there have been numerous and countless customers waiting in front of the entrance, which forces us to find that this shop should matter for the customers.