Blue Fins 4

Next day everybody is swimming. No one
is surfing. The sea is flat.
The sun is high in the sky. The hot sun shines
on the water. The water is silver and blue.

Men, women and children are in the sea.
They are playing and laughing. Everybody
is happy.

The lifeguard watches the sea. He looks
at the people swimming.

Suddenly, he shouts loudly.

  　（Shark! Quick! Get out of the water!）・・・・・lifeguardのセリフ

The shark is swimming quickly. It is hungry.
Its black fin is above the water. The shark is
swimming towards the people. Everybody is
frightened. Sharks are dangerous. They have
long, sharp teeth.

　　frightened：怯えた。

Everybody swims towards the beach.

Jen and Rick are swimming a long way
from the beach. The shark comes towards Rick.
Jen is very frightened. She shouts at Rick.

　　（Rick! Look out!）・・・・Jenのセリフ

Rick sees the shark's black fin above the water.
The shark is thirty metres away.

Blue Fins３

Jen sees a sea-urchin. She doesn't touch
the sea-urchin. It's dangerous.
It has sharp spines.

　　sea-urchin：ウニ

Jen swims up to get air. Her snorkel
comes out of the water. Jen takes a big breath.
She dives down under the water again.
Jen swims past a large rock. Suddenly she stops.
She sees a dolphin. It cannot swim.
The dolphin is in a net.

　　past：以前の

The net is round the dolphin's body.
The net is round the rocks. The dolphin
cannot swim up to get air. The beautiful,
blue dolphin is dying.
The dolphin moves its fins slowly.
But the net is strong. The dolphin
cannot break the net.

　　fin：ヒレ

（Hi, dolphin! I'll help you.）・・・・・Jenのセリフ

Jen pulls the net from the rocks.
She pulls the net from the dolphin.
The dolphin is out of the net.
The dolphin moves its fins quickly.
It swims fast. The dolphin swims up and up.

　　pull　対　push

It takes a breath of air. The dolphin looks
down at Jen. Then it swims away.

Jen is happy. She tells Rick about the dolphin.（ここまで一気に読めた）

Blue Fins 2

Jen walks along the beach. She sits on some rocks.
Jen puts her blue rubber fins on her feet.
She puts the yellow mask and snorkel on her face.
The water is warm. Her blue fins splash loudly.

Jen takes a big breath. She dives under the water.
She moves her blue fins and swims very quickly.
She goes down and down.

      breath：呼吸

She can see fish and plants. She can see
fish and plants through her yellow mask.
The fish and plants are very beautiful.

The fish swim all round her. Jen can see
yellow fish. She can see blue fish.
There are green, red and white fish.

Jen looks at the plants. They grow
on the rocks. There are tall plants.
There are small plants. 

Jen touches the plants. Some plants are soft.
Some plants are hard. Fish live in the plants and rocks.

Blue Fins

It's hot. The sun is shining. The sky is blue.
The hot sun is shining in the blue sky.
Jen lives in Australia. Jen and her friends
are not at college today. It is the weekend.

Jen is on the beach.
She's standing on the hot sand.
She's waving to her boyfriend, Rick.
Rick and Jen's friends are in the sea.
They are swimming and surfing.

Rick is very happy. He has a new surfboard.
The surfboard is red and white.
Rick's favourite sport is surfing.

I'm going surfing.
My new surfboard is very fast. It's great!　・・・・・ Rickのセリフ

　　　favourite sport：お気に入りのスポーツ

MY LIGHT６

When you turn on lights at night,
they look like stars have fallen down to earth.
Those lights are energy from me, your golden star,
caught and transformed by your earth,
and by yourselves.

For a moment,
my light illuminates your towns and cities.

夜に明かりをつけると、星が地球に落ちたように見えます。
それらの光は、あなたの黄金の星である私からのエネルギーであり、あなたの地球によって、そしてあなた自身によって捕らえられ、変換されます。

一瞬、私の光があなたの町や都市を照らします。

Then, like the starlight from which it came,
fades back into space.

そして、それが来た星の光のように、宇宙にフェードバックします。

MY LIGHT 5

My light falls on solar cells
and charges their electrons.

No turbines, no generators——

electricity streams across the cells,
which pour it into copper wires.

Electricity flows to the building below.

When darkness falls, you turn a switch.
From rushing wind and water,
from burning coal, from silent solar cells,
you let my energy into your room.
Electricity lights the night.

Inside a light bulb,
a wire grows hot.
It glows.

Inside a fluorescent tube,
gas is energized.
It glows.

MY LIGHT 4

　Google翻訳を時々使っていたが、もっと利口な翻訳ソフトを見つけた。と言っても、日記の機能に翻訳機能があったことに最近気づき使ってみたのだが、なかなか使えそうなレベルに思えた。

Other plants die and are buried.
Some were buried millions
and millions of years ago
and turned to coal.
Then my energy stayed
deep underground,
locked inside the coal.

他の植物は死んで埋もれている。いくつかは何百万年も前に埋葬され、石炭に変わった。その後、私のエネルギーは地下深くにとどまり、石炭の中に閉じ込められました。

Crunch! Roar!
Now you humans dig up the coal.
You haul it out and burn it.

クランチ！轟音！

今、あなたたち人間は石炭を掘り起こします。

あなたはそれを運び出して燃やします。

The fire heats water into steam.
Whoosh!
The steam shoots against
giant turbines, which spin
round and round. They send
my energy to generators,
which make electricity.

火は水を蒸気に加熱する。

うわー！

蒸気は、ぐるぐる回転する巨大なタービンに対して撃ちます。

彼らは私のエネルギーを発電機に送り、電気を作ります。

（火は水を蒸気に加熱します。 

うわー！ 蒸気が逆流する 回転する巨大なタービン グルグルと。 

彼らが送ります 発電機への私のエネルギー、 電気を作るもの —— Google翻訳）

From coal-fired power plants,
electricity flows in copper
wires, out to your
towns and cities.

石炭火力発電所から、電気は銅線で、あなたの町や都市に流れます。