英語検定ライティング準１級（第469回）

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とある県の知事が不正を曝露されそうになって通報者を自殺に追いやった。議会の議員の86人全てが辞職を要求するとのこと。それでも辞めないらしい。辞めて普通の人になると殺人事件の主犯として逮捕されるから。賠償金も相当になるらしい。
A certain governor in a certain prefecture compelled a whistleblower to commit suicide because the reporter tried to expose the politician’s unforgivable behaviors to the public, when he tried to prevent what he did from being open to ordinary citizens in our society, she says.
In a few days, as many as 86 congressmen would require the current governor to resign from the significant post, although the congress are composed of 86 members.
Despite this, he won’t absolutely obey their demands.
When he should receive their requests, he would be one of the ordinary citizens in our society, on the contrary, he would become a vicious murder criminal because his verbal violence and his malicious acts forced a couple of his subordinates to kill themselves, which enables him to be arrested by the police, simultaneously, he must pay a large amount of money as the compensation payments.

文化大革命については多くの本がある。だがワイルドスワンよりも心惹かれるものに出会えない。個人が経験した出来事ほど人間の苦しみを表現するものはない。客観的な事実は絶望の中にいながらも未来の希望を捨てなかった感情が不在だからだ。
There are numerous books written about Great Cultural Revolution in our society, but we cannot encounter even more moving and impressive books than “Wild Swan.”
It is because the incidents which individuals experience cannot completely fail to express how humans feel under the deadly, lethal, critical and frightening circumstances.
We should consider it as something challenging to find various victims’ mental strengths in the objective facts.
Not a few ordinary citizens failed to abandon their own hopes and wishes to be released from the catastrophe caused by one cruel and crazy dictator, everyone knows.

その当時の中国では自殺者が多数いたとのことだが日本ではそのような悪い噂は聞かなかった。むしろ人民公社という社会主義の象徴は高く評価されていた。今の日本も自殺者が多い。血税が国会議員に無駄遣いされている事実は国民を殺すはずだ。
In those days, the number of someone suicidal used to be extremely large in China, but we couldn’t be informed of these uncomfortable rumors in Japan, on the contrary, the China’s successful symbol the “People’s Communes” were appreciated on the globe, and we had opportunities to write such letters in the geography examinations.
Considering this, there have been a tremendously large number of someone suicidal in our society during these 30 years’ continuous recessions and depressions.
Despite this, numerous Diet members have wasted our bloody consumption taxes, which kills ordinary citizens.
About 80 Diet members of the Liberal Democratic Party are responsible for these undesirable situations because they have been the notorious tax frauds, an article says.