英語検定ライティング準１級（第456回）

戦後中国「１人の気まぐれが大衆を殺す話」

ワイルドスワンを読みたいと思ったきっかけは大躍進政策が一般庶民をどのように苦しめたのかをある一人の主人公の目を通して知りたいと思ったからだ。ユンチアンが小学生になった頃から夢想家の指導者の悪政は始まる。全国民が鉄屑を探した。
There was the very moment where we wanted to read “Wild Swan” because we wanted to learn how ordinary people suffered from the terrible confusions during the “Great Leap Forward” in China in 1950’s through one citizen’s eyes, in other words, what happened to them.
When the main character, the author, in this novel began to enroll the elementary school, aged 12, an incapable dictator declared the notorious movements described above, when almost all people looked for the materials of the steels, though their hard work failed to be profitable.

その当時の偉大すぎる指導者の最大の悪は人命を軽視したことだと書いてある。その一言は悪政を一言で表現していると思う。自分の感覚がどんなに拒否していても熱狂の波には抵抗できない。その方が楽に生きれるからだ。この章は名言が多い。
The author says that too undesirable a leader’s faults might be that he couldn’t emphasize the citizens’ life.
Her utterance has absolutely expressed what he did in those days accurately, in short, his behaviors couldn’t fail to be something inappropriate as someone political.
Almost all of the ordinary citizens in the rural areas had their own uncomfortable feelings and emotions against what the communists commanded, but they weren’t able to protest what they were compelled to do, after all, they were at the mercy of something enthusiastic, she says.
They didn’t want to be arrested because the life in the concentration camps seemed even more threatening.
We couldn’t fail to find an extremely large number of the instructive and educational phrases in this chapter.

この章を読む途中である県の知事を思い出した。彼にもっと知性があったら委員会で役人から質問攻めに遭うこともなかった。出張に出かけるのは行き先で高級なものを持って帰るためとか笑い話では済まなくなっている。人が死んでるのだから。
While we read this chapter, these contents wouldn’t fail to remind us of the notorious governor in a prefecture.
He hasn’t been equipped with any intelligences, which brings home to us, otherwise, he wouldn’t have been required to receive numerous questions about what he has done as someone political in the place like a court.
He went somewhere important on businesses to obtain what he liked to own in various kinds of locations, where he wanted to possess something gorgeous even when such items should be something too expensive, and we tend to consider his negative reputations as something disgusting, after all, we mustn’t allow him to continue to be in the current position because he has prevented the prefectural businesses from making smooth progresses.
He shouldn’t ignore his vital staffs deaths, she assumes.