Out of doors the market folks went trudging through the snow to buy their geese and turkeys, and to bake their Christmas pies; but there would be no Christmas dinner for Simpkin and the poor old Tailor of Gloucester.
The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
ひとびとは クリスマスの しょくじを じゅんびした。
しかし、シンプキンと したてやには クリスマスのディナーは ない。
- predicate:
- 準備する
The tailor lay ill for three days and nights; and then it was Christmas Eve, and very late at night.
したてやは クリスマスイブまで ねこんだ。
- predicate:
- 寝込む
The moon climbed up over the roofs and chimneys, and looked down over the gateway into College Court.
つきが カレッジコートのなかを のぞいた。
- predicate:
- 覗く
There were no lights in the windows, nor any sound in the houses; all the city of Gloucester was fast asleep under the snow.
あかりも おとも なかった。
- subject:
- 明かりも、音も
And still Simpkin wanted his mice, and he mewed as he stood beside the four-post bed.
シンプキンは まだ ネズミが ほしかった。
- predicate:
- ネズミが欲しかった
But it is in the old story that all the beasts can talk, in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say).
どうぶつたちは はなすことができる。
クリスマスイブから クリスマスのあさまでの よるのあいだだけ。
- modifier:
- 夜の間だけ
When the Cathedral clock struck twelve there was an answer—like an echo of the chimes—and Simpkin heard it, and came out of the tailor’s door, and wandered about in the snow.
１２じの かねを きいて、
シンプキンは そとにでて ゆきのなかを あるきまわった。
- modifier:
- １２時の鐘を聞いて
From all the roofs and gables and old wooden houses in Gloucester came a thousand merry voices singing the old Christmas rhymes—all the old songs that ever I heard of, and some that I don’t know, like Whittington’s bells.
まちじゅうから たのしげな こえが きこえた。
- subject:
- 楽し気な声が
- 心が浮き立つ（こころ が うきたつ, feel uplifted / feel delighted）
The Japanese expression “kokoro ga ukitatsu” describes a feeling of emotional uplift, delight, or cheerful anticipation. It is used when someone becomes excited or happy due to pleasant news, enjoyable plans, or something inspiring. The phrase often appears in moments of joy—such as hearing good results, looking forward to an event, or experiencing something heartwarming that makes one’s spirits rise.
First and loudest the cocks cried out: “Dame, get up, and bake your pies!”
「おきて、パイをやきなさい」
“Oh, dilly, dilly, dilly!” sighed Simpkin.
シンプキンは ためいきをついた。
- predicate:
- ため息をつく
And now in a garret there were lights and sounds of dancing, and cats came from over the way.
やねうらで おどりの おとがした。
- subject:
- 踊りの音が
“Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle! All the cats in Gloucester—except me,” said Simpkin.
「グロスターにいる わたしいがいの すべてのネコは たのしげだ」
- predicate:
- 楽し気だ
Under the wooden eaves the starlings and sparrows sang of Christmas pies; the jack-daws woke up in the Cathedral tower; and although it was the middle of the night the throstles and robins sang; the air was quite full of little twittering tunes.
よるなのに トリたちの さえずりのおとで いっぱいだった。
- modifier:
- 夜なのに
But it was all rather provoking to poor hungry Simpkin!
それは とても はらだたしかった。
- predicate:
- 腹立たしい
Particularly he was vexed with some little shrill voices from behind a wooden lattice.
とくに、かれは ちいさな かんだかいこえに いらだった。
- modifier:
- 小さな甲高い声に
I think that they were bats, because they always have very small voices—especially in a black frost, when they talk in their sleep, like the Tailor of Gloucester.
それは コウモリのこえだろう。
They said something mysterious that sounded like—
“Buz, quoth the blue fly, hum, quoth the bee,
Buz and hum they cry, and so do we!”
かれらは ふしぎな なにかを いった。
- modifier:
- 不思議な何かを
and Simpkin went away shaking his ears as if he had a bee in his bonnet.
シンプキンは たちさった。
- predicate:
- 立ち去る