英語検定ライティング準１級（第517回）

図書館閉館「有料だがマクドナルドの話」

月の最後の月曜日は図書館が閉まるので時間つぶしの場所に困る。たまにマクドナルドで180円のホットを買って3時間ほど過ごすこともある。昼過ぎで混雑はしてないが読書をするには少しうるさい。だがエアコンの効いている空間を180円で使えるのはコスパがいい。気のせいかもしれないが充電の消耗が。
A public library won’t open on the last Monday of each month, so we spend several hours at the Macdonald, although we must order something sold there, she says.
The least expensive item might be a cup of coffee, which costs us 180 yen, and this enables us to stay there for several hours, which we consider extremely convenient.
In the afternoon, such places fail to be crowded, but the BGM and several customers’ voices shouldn’t be silent.
We have to become accustomed to something noisy.
However, none of distractions fails to interrupt us when we concentrate on something readable, everyone knows.
It is because the temperatures should be controlled with countless air conditioners, which seems cheap, she says.
In recent months, we frequently charge mobile phones, although we have been too careful about the electricity.

総選挙の結果として自民党が敗北したと言われている。議席数はもっと減ると思っていた。だが複数の宗教団体による支援のため意外にも裏金議員が当選した。投票率も低かった。残念だが日本人は選挙に対する意識が低い。ある国は投票しなかったら市民権が剥奪される国もある。日本も義務化した方がいい。
Last night, there were several TV programs that reported the results about the general elections over Japan, which mentioned the Liberal Democratic Party’s being beaten.
However, we expected that the number of Diet politicians would become even smaller because numerous taxation swindlers didn’t lose their rights to participate in the Diet.
After all, several religious organizations supported them from behind, which might prevent them from losing their power, and this would enable them to continue to enjoy their conventional kickbacks, secret money, he assumes.
The low voting rate could still make positive contributions to their keeping the current power in their local regions.
It might be shame that countless ordinary citizens in our society haven’t been interested in the elections, which means that they give up their indispensable citizenships.
In a certain country, common public who don’t have any attitudes to visit the voting sites fail to enjoy numerous rights to lead a normal life, considering this, Japanese government also force us to do our duties, she assumes.