英語検定ライティング準１級（第210回）

三体「文系人間には理解が難しい話」

中国人作家によるSF小説で三体というのがある。東京にいる友人と話をする機会があってその小説を紹介してもらった。近年映像ばかりを楽しんでいるので活字は少しハードルが高い。
There was an opportunity to read a famous Chinese author’s popular novel “The three-body problem” last year, which my friend in Tokyo introduced me.
But I had a fault : I have had no experience to read printed words in recent years because I like to watch animation series or drama series with subscription services, so that I had difficulty reading the novel.

主人公の父親が文化大革命のリンチで命を落とした。そこで彼女は人間社会を直すのは外部の方が効果的だと考えた。宇宙と交信するうちに連携が取れるようになったくらいまで読んだ。
Chinese Cultural Great Revolution killed a main character’s father, who received a violent torture by Red Guards in front of numerous spectators and audiences.
She determined that someone external should be likely to reform the confused circumstances on the globe rather than internal counterparts, an author wrote.
While she was communicating with someone in the spaces, her scheme was making progresses little by little, until which I read and give up reading next.

というよりもサブスクでそこら辺まで観た。サブスクの前にオーディブルも試してみたが余計に理解不可能だった。三体とは３つの太陽が不規則に公転するので気候が当てにならないと。
Rather, I watched it until there with subscription services, instead I listened to it until there with an audible app, to my regret, which caused me to find it even more difficult to understand this scientific fiction novel, to my shame.
Watching the contents on the streaming video services explained “The three-body problem” to me easily that three suns revolve irregularly, which results in its weather condition being unstable : sometimes the temperature is extremely hot and sometimes the temperature is tremendously cold, so people there couldn’t lead a stable and peaceful life like humans.

それで天候が安定している地球を侵略するというストーリーなのかな。これで三分の一も読んでないらしい。どうしても興味が持てない。早く先を知りたいという欲求が全くないのだよ。
This is why someone external might invade our earth with stable climate, in short, the globe, we imagine.
I haven’t read the rest of the story yet, which is composed of two-thirds of the whole contents.
No interest about this book hit on me at all, and I couldn’t have any desires to read further, to my shame.