英語検定ライティング準１級（第418回）

リフレッシュ「お金をかけないでスッキリな話」

図書館で悪評高い週刊誌を読む機会があった。有名芸能人のゴシップとスキャンダルで満ち溢れている。それは購買につながるのだろう。営利企業なので儲けがなくてはならない。退屈な日常を送る一般庶民を精神的にスッキリさせなくてはならぬ。
There were precious opportunities to read a notorious weekly magazine called “Sentence Spring” the other day.
As usual, it was filled with something scandalous and gossipy about the famous celebrities, which makes it become profitable, naturally, the publish company must gain something profitable because they aren’t the public organizations, simultaneously, they must enable their customers to refresh themselves in the mental viewpoint.

新学期が開始されて図書館の利用者は減った。受験生は学校で居眠りをしているだろう。公務員がおこなう授業は退屈だからだ。そもそも学校は受験問題の解き方を教える場所ではない。友情を育むために存在する。昼寝をするのは問題ないのだ。
The new semesters have started, and the number of the users in the library has become smaller in recent days.
And the examinees would take a nap during the classes at school because the lessons taught by boring public servants absolutely fail to attract their attentions.
In the first place, a public school shouldn’t be the place where they could acquire how to find one correct option among the four choices, which might be the typical kind of the entrance examination of the university, she says.
What matters to students is to foster their friendships at school through their club activities, so they willingly take a nap to concentrate on their studies during the night.


私たちは他人の悪口を聞かないで生きていくのは難しい。週刊誌が売れるのは幸せそうな有名人が実際は悪い人間だと悪口を代弁してくれるからである。たまに悪口を捏造してまで売り上げを伸ばそうとする。悪いことをしないと儲からないんだな。
We cannot lead a moral life without speaking ill of others, so the notorious weekly magazines cannot fail to sell because they expose the famous celebrities’ faults to the public, actually they look like someone who enjoys their maximum happinesses, however, they feel tremendously frustrated with numerous enemies in the social media.
A notorious magazine has sometimes vicious schemes to invent something scandalous about someone popular in order to become extremely profitable, after all, doing repulsive and undesirable behaviors won’t absolutely fail to generate something wealthy, an online article says.