Once upon a time, many, many years ago, there lived a very old woman and her name was Mrs. Tubbs.
The Story of Mrs. Tubbs by Hugh Lofting
むかしむかし、としおいた じょせいが くらしていた。
- subject:
- 年老いた女性が
She lived on a little farm, way off in the country.
かのじょは ちいさな のうじょうで くらしていた。
- modifier:
- 小さな農場で
Her little house stood on the edge of the woods, not very far from a village with a little church, and a little river with a little bridge over it, flowed close by the house.
かのじょの ちいさな いえは もりのはしに たっていた。
- modifier:
- 森の端に
There was a barn too for cows and horses, only the woman hadn’t any cows or horses; she lived all alone with a dog and a duck and a pig.
かのじょは いぬと、アヒルと、ブタと いっしょに くらしていた。
- predicate:
- 暮らす
The dog’s name was Peter Punk, the duck’s name was Polly Ponk, and the pig’s name was Patrick Pink.
イヌの なまえは ピーター・パンク。
アヒルの なまえは ポリー・ポンク。
ブタの なまえは パトリック・ピンク。
The old woman called them Punk, Ponk and Pink for short.
ろうふじんは パンク、ポンク、ピンクと よんだ。
- subject:
- 老婦人は
Punk and Ponk had known one another for many years and were very good friends.
パンクとポンクは なかのいい ともだちだった。
- predicate:
- 仲の良い友達だった
The pig they treated as a baby because they said he was very young and hadn’t much sense.
かれらは ブタを あかんぼうのように あつかった。
- modifier:
- 赤ん坊のように
The old woman did not own the farm although she had lived on it so long.
ろうふじんは そののうじょうを しょゆうしていなかった。
- predicate:
- 所有する
The farm belonged to a man up in London who never came there at all.
のうじょうは ロンドンにいる おとこのものだった。
This man, one fine day at the end of summer when the leaves were beginning to fall in the woods, sent his nephew, a very silly young man with a red face, down from London to live in the farm-house instead of Mrs. Tubbs.
このおとこは じぶんの おいを ロンドンから おくりだした。
Punk, Ponk and Pink and the old woman were all dreadfully sad at having to leave the home where they had been so happy together for so many years.
パンクとポンクとピンクと ろうふじんは とても かなしんだ。
- predicate:
- 悲しむ
As the sun was going down behind the little church one evening at the end of Summer when the leaves were beginning to fall in the woods, they all left the farm together, Punk in front, then Pink, then Ponk and Mrs. Tubbs behind.
かれらは いっしょに のうじょうを さった。
- predicate:
- 去る
They walked a long, long way along the edge of the woods and at last when they saw a seat under a tree they all sat down to rest.
かれらは あるきつづけた。
そして ようやく すわるところを みつけて、
かれらは やすんだ。
- predicate:
- 歩き続ける
- 休む
“Oh dear, oh dear,” Mrs. Tubbs kept saying, “now I have no home, no place to sleep.
「もう わたしは いえがない」
And me an old woman. To be turned off the farm after all these years! What shall I do, where shall I go? Oh dear, oh dear!”
「わたしは どうしたらいい？」
Then she stopped talking.
かのじょは はなすことを やめた。
Peter Punk and Polly Ponk both understood what she said because they had lived with her so long.
パンクとポンクは かのじょがいったことを りかいした。
- predicate:
- 理解する
Pink couldn’t understand because he was only a baby and he kept saying in animal language:—“Let’s go on. I don’t like this place. There’s nothing to eat here.”
ピンクは りかいできなかった。
“I do think it’s a shame,” Polly Ponk said to Punk, “that the old woman should be turned out.
「ほんとうに ひどいことだとおもう」
- predicate:
- 思う
Did you see the way that stupid man slammed the door after we had gone?
「あのおとこが ドアを ピシャリとしめた やりかたを みた？」
- predicate:
- 見る
I’d like to see him turn me out of my house that way. I’d give him such a peck on his red nose he wouldn’t try it again!
「めにものみせれば、かれは にどと やらないだろう！」
- 目に物見せる（めにものみせる, teach someone a lesson / show them what’s what）
The Japanese expression “me ni mono miseru” means to teach someone a harsh lesson or make them experience consequences so they understand their mistake. It often implies strong determination to correct someone’s behavior, confront wrongdoing, or retaliate against unfair treatment. The phrase is typically used in situations involving conflict, discipline, or standing up for oneself.
But of course she is old, very old. I often wonder how old she really is.”
「かのじょは ほんとうは なんさいなのだろう」
- predicate:
- 何歳なのだろう
“She is over a hundred, I know,” said Punk.
「かのじょは １００さいを こえている」
“Yes, it is a shame she should have to go for that stupid booby. ‘Beefsteak-and-Onions’ I call him.
「ひどいことだ。かのじょが でなければならないなんて」
- predicate:
- 出なければならない
But it isn’t altogether his fault. He’s only sent here from London by his uncle who owns the farm.”
「しかし、それは かれがきめたことではない」
- predicate:
- 彼が決めた事ではない