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English Speaker: NoelleT
I was being a petulant baby in elementary school.
小学生の時は気が短かったけど……
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Are you all flying back tonight?
今夜、飛行機に乗って帰っちゃうの？
Actually, my dad will be in Taiwan for another week attending to business matters.
実は、お父さんが仕事の関係でもう一週間台湾にいるの。
So my mother and I are flying back alone.
だから帰るのは私とお母さんだけよ。
Aw, one week was too short.
えー、一週間だと短すぎたよ。
As Noelle fits the last of her clothes into the roller bag, Chun-hua takes a seat, pulling a thick tome out of her backpack.
ノエルは最後の服をキャスターバッグに詰める。春花は座って、リュックから厚い本を出した。
Noelle feels a twinge of sadness as she watches her cousin read her huge, academic looking book.
いとこが大きな学術書のような本を読む様子を見て、ノエルは少し悲しくなった。
If I'd grown up in Taiwan, we probably would've become close.
あたしが台湾で育ってたら、きっと仲良くなってた気がするわ。
Suddenly, a strange thought occurs to Noelle.
突然、ノエルの頭を妙な考えがよぎった。
If I'd grown up here, would my personality been shaped into something more similar to Chun-hua's?
あたしがここで育ってたら、チュンファのような性格になってたかしら？
How much of my personality is just a product of being raised by an immigrant helicopter mother with no friends or family around to balance her out?
移民で相談するような友達も家族もいない、過干渉の母親に育てられたことは、あたしの性格にどれほど影響してるの？
Would my mother and I have gotten along?
台湾で生活してたら、お母さんともうまくやれた？
The magazine Chun-hua showed Noelle earlier is still out on the coffee table, taunting her.
春花が見せてくれた雑誌がまだコーヒーテーブルに広げられている。まるで雑誌がノエルをからかっているかのようだ。
I'm finished packing, so I have some time to kill before we leave for the airport.
荷造りは終わったし、空港に行くまで少し時間があるわね。
Maybe I can translate the poem my mother wrote.
お母さんが書いた詩を翻訳してみようかしら。
Noelle digs her emergency Chinese-to-English dictionary out of her backpack.
ノエルは緊急用に持っていた中英辞書をリュックから取り出した。
I was being a petulant baby in elementary school.
小学生の時は気が短かったけど……
All I have to do is persevere and power through learning the language properly this time.
今度は辛抱強く、真面目に中国語を勉強すればいいだけの話よ。
I'll simply look up each word I don't know, and burn its pronunciation and meaning into my memory.
知らない単語はちゃんと調べて、読み方と意味を記憶に焼き付ければいいのよ。
Unfortunately, she doesn't know a single word in the poem's first line.
不運にも、詩の一行目にある単語は、どれもノエルの知らないものだった。
After spending 15 minutes pounding seven words into her memory, her enthusiasm evaporates.
15分かけて７つの単語を記憶に叩き込み、ノエルのやる気は蒸発した。
This actually is incredibly difficult...
これ、思ったよりも難しいわ……。
I'm not surprised that I have nothing to show for my six years of Chinese school. It feels like the knowledge is just washing over my brain like water over plastic.
どうりで中国語学校での６年間が全然役に立ってないわけね…… 覚えたことが水みたいにどこかに流れていくのを感じる。
Is my brain just not wired for this?
あたし、言語の勉強に向いてないの？
Could it be genetic? Even after living the majority of their lives in America, my parents haven't mastered English, either.
遺伝的な問題だったりする？ 親も人生の大半をアメリカで過ごしてるのに、英語が下手なままだし。
It takes another 15 minutes for her to finally overcome the first line of the poem.
さらに15分かけて、ようやく詩の一行目を読み切った。
At last! Onto the second line!
ようやく終わった！ 次は２行目ね！
And I already know all these words.
しかも全部あたしの知ってる言葉じゃない。
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Mirror flower water moon.
鏡、花、水、月。
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It's total gibberish. Is it supposed to sound poetic mushed together like that?
なにこれ。全部繋げると詩的に聞こえるものなの？
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Mirror flower water moon.
鏡、花、水、月。

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I was being a petulant baby in elementary school.
小学生の時は気が短かったけど……
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Speaker: NoelleT
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translations-ja.po, string 4344