常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

No More Fukushimas

           

これは英語界では言い尽くされたことですが、写真にあるNo More Fukushimaは単純なエラーです。No More Fukushimasとsを付けないと「福島の悲劇を繰り返すな」という意味は伝わりません。

スローガンではFukushimaという地名(固有名詞)が原発事故に見舞われた被災地という意味合いの普通名詞と使われているので、当然そうなります。当たり前と言えば、当たり前ですがJToの文はしっかりそうなっています。

ちなみに記事は非核運動のスローガンが原発事故にも安易に転用されているのに違和感を感じているヒロシマに関する記事です。(UG)

“No more Hiroshimas!” ‘‘No more Fukushimas!” Those slogans are chanted together at rallies by Japanese who want both an end to nuclear power in the island nation and an end to nuclear weapons around the world. But many in this city, where the world’s first atomic-bomb attack killed tens of thousands, are distressed by efforts to connect their suffering to the tsunami-triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Like the bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima Aug 6, 1945, the March 2011 Fukushima disaster unleashed radiation that will affect the region’s health for decades. Hiroshima medical experts, the world’s most renowned on radiation-related sicknesses, are being called on for advice on how the meltdowns may have harmed people who lived near the power plant along the northeastern coast of Japan.

Some in the historical movement against nuclear non-proliferation have joined the protests that have popped up after Fukushima, calling for an end to nuclear power. Calls out of Hiroshima to do away with nuclear weapons carry great moral weight in Japan, and activists are asking the city to join forces and sign their petitions demanding the government ditch nuclear power.

To opponents of this idea, the differences between Hiroshima and Fukushima dwarf the similarities. Only one of the two catastrophes was an act of war that unleashed death, fire and horror on a scale the world had never seen.

“Our position, and this is a position we can never compromise, is that nuclear weapons are an absolute evil,” Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui said in an interview at city hall, his voice trembling. “I oppose connecting the two simply because they both involve radiation.”

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/attempts-to-link-fukushima-hiroshima-upset-some