The tailor crossed the kitchen, and stood quite still beside the dresser, listening, and peering through his spectacles.
The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
したてやは しょっきだなの となりに たった。
- modifier:
- 食器棚の隣に
Again from under a tea-cup, came those funny little noises—
Tip tap, tip tap, Tip tap tip!
ふたたび ちいさな ものおとがした。
- subject:
- 小さな物音が
“This is very peculiar,” said the Tailor of Gloucester; and he lifted up the tea-cup which was upside down.
したてやは そのティーカップを もちあげた。
- predicate:
- 持ち上げる
Out stepped a little live lady mouse, and made a curtsey to the tailor!
ちいさな じょせいの ネズミが でてきて、カーテシーをした。
Then she hopped away down off the dresser, and under the wainscot.
それから、かのじょは そこから とびおりて、さった。
- predicate:
- 飛び降りる
- 去る
The tailor sat down again by the fire, warming his poor cold hands, and mumbling to himself——
したてやは ふたたび ひとりごとを つぶやいた。
- predicate:
- つぶやく
“The waistcoat is cut out from peach-coloured satin—tambour stitch and rose-buds in beautiful floss silk. Was I wise to entrust my last fourpence to Simpkin? One-and-twenty button-holes of cherry-coloured twist!”
「わたしは けんめいだっただろうか？
シンプキンに おかねを あずけるなんて」
- predicate:
- 賢明だった
But all at once, from the dresser, there came other little noises:
Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!
とつぜん、べつの ものおとがした。
“This is passing extraordinary!” said the Tailor of Gloucester, and turned over another tea-cup, which was upside down.
したてやは べつの ティーカップを ひっくりかえした。
- predicate:
- ひっくり返す
Out stepped a little gentleman mouse, and made a bow to the tailor!
しんしの ネズミが とびだして、おじぎした。
And then from all over the dresser came a chorus of little tappings, all sounding together, and answering one another, like watch-beetles in an old worm-eaten window-shutter—
Tip tap, tip tap, tip tap tip!
しょっきだなの あちこちから おとがした。
And out from under tea-cups and from under bowls and basins, stepped other and more little mice who hopped away down off the dresser and under the wainscot.
さらにおおくの ネズミたちが あらわれて、さっていった。
- predicate:
- 現れる
- 去る
The tailor sat down, close over the fire, lamenting—”One-and-twenty button-holes of cherry-coloured silk!
したてやは こうかいした。
- predicate:
- 後悔する
To be finished by noon of Saturday: and this is Tuesday evening.
「しめきりが ちかいのに」
- subject:
- 締め切りが
Was it right to let loose those mice, undoubtedly the property of Simpkin? Alack, I am undone, for I have no more twist!”
「わたしは シンプキンのネズミを にがしてしまった」
- predicate:
- 逃がす
- おしまい（おしまい, the end / it’s over）
The Japanese word “oshimai” means “the end” or “it’s over,” often used when something has failed, collapsed, or reached an irreversible conclusion. It conveys a sense of finality—sometimes serious, sometimes humorous. People use it in everyday conversation when a plan goes wrong, when a situation becomes hopeless, or when jokingly declaring that something has gone disastrously off track.
The little mice came out again, and listened to the tailor; they took notice of the pattern of that wonderful coat.
ネズミたちは したてやのことばを きいた。
They whispered to one another about the taffeta lining, and about little mouse tippets.
ネズミたちは たがいに ささやいた。
- predicate:
- ささやく
And then all at once they all ran away together down the passage behind the wainscot, squeaking and calling to one another, as they ran from house to house; and not one mouse was left in the tailor’s kitchen when Simpkin came back with the pipkin of milk!
ネズミたちは はしりさった。
- predicate:
- 走り去る