英語検定ライティング準１級（第479回）

狭小邸宅「新庄耕の作品を読んでいる話」

テレビ討論会では60歳代の国会議員が立派なことを言って議論が白熱しているように見せた。だがある世襲議員は全くその議論の中に入れなかった。消えていた。多くの人は感じたと思う。これで国際会議に参加されても困る。父親も推してない。
Several senior Diet members participated in the TV panel discussion, where they stated something respectable in a loud voice and they exchanged heated arguments.
However, a certain second generation politician couldn’t take part in their enthusiastic debates, after all, we failed to watch his appearances at all, he disappeared there.
Various kinds of ordinary viewers find it challenging to watch him demonstrate his superior performances in the International conferences, such as G7, G20 and so on.
We cannot expect him to rescue us from these 30 years’ continuous depressions and recessions, an article says.

地震の被災地である半島の地域は復興が進んでいない。若者がいない過疎地域だから。だがこの時期になっていろんな議員が訪れている。現状に心を痛めているのではない。総裁になりたいから。地元民はもっと早く興味を持ってほしいと思ってる。
Several months have already passed since an immense earthquake attacked a certain peninsula areas, but the residents’ life has been far from satisfactory restoration.
The government had left somewhere disastrous as it is, however, these days, not a few senators and the Diet members visited there in order to demonstrate their passions and enthusiasms, although they haven’t had any aggressiveness and willingnesses to make what they are return to what they used to be, something original.
What they wish is to be elected the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party, to their disappointments.
In conclusion, numerous local citizens there wanted the government to be interested in their damages, he says.

不動産屋の営業マンの小説が面白い。自分が吸い込まれていく。サブスクで人気のドラマの原作を書いた小説家の作品だ。一年中休みのないブラック企業に勤める若者が主人公だ。家を客に買わせるのはほぼ不可能に近い。生涯に一度の買い物だ。
There is a certain novel in the library nearby, where a certain young worker struggles as a salesperson of the real estate, and the contents should be too interesting to stop reading, whose author has been extremely popular in recent months because his famous work has been changed into the drama series we might watch on the subscription services called “Netflix,” we should watch.
Its main character is a salaryman has been engaged in the black company without any holidays throughout the year, and he considers it as something impossible to force their customers to purchase a new house because we buy our residence only once in our lifetime, she says.