長谷川拓美
■出題回数が多い英語の長文
医学部やそれ以外の学部の受験でもよく出る英語の長文を紹介します。本誌の付録では、「よく出る英語の長文」と「日本語訳」を載せています。まず、次の長文を読み、日本語に訳してみましょう。知らない英単語があったらチェックして、何度も演習するようにしましょう。
よく出る「消化器の医単（医療の英単語）」もリストにしています。ここもチェックするように心がけてください。
【日本語に訳してみましょう「思想の自由について」】
It is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks.
The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds of his experience and the power of his imagination. But this natural liberty of private thinking is of little value.
It is unsatisfactory and even painful to the thinker himself, if he is not permitted to communicate his thoughts to others, and it is obviously of no value to his neighbors.
Moreover it is extremely difficult to hide thoughts that have any power over the mind. If a man’s thinking leads him to call in question ideas and customs which regulate the behaviour of those about him, to reject beliefs which they hold, to see better ways of life than those they follow, it is almost impossible for him, if he is convinced of the truth of his own reasoning, not to betray by silence, chance words, or general attitude that he is different from them and does not share their opinions.
Some have preferred, like Socrates, some would prefer today, to face death rather than conceal their thoughts. Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.
At present, in the most civilized countries, freedom of speech is taken as a matter of course and seems a perfectly simple thing. We are so accustomed to it that we look on it as a natural right.
小島よしお
しいたけ.
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