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[ ](2ヵ所）を訳してもらえるとありがたいです。（できるだけ丁寧に）

　The huge blue heron glides over our cottage roof and settles down gently, taking up his post at the mouth of the tidal cove. [Standing guard on elegant long legs, he picks off trespassers who swim too close to the border. When he is through and the water begins to intrude again, he takes off, arching out over the bay.]

Every day since we arrived, the great bird has followed this pattern. He arrives at each low tide like clockwork - no, nothing like clockwork. Watching him at my own porch post, I cannnot imagine anything more different than tides and clocks, any way of life more different than one in tune with tides and another regimented by numbers.

The heron belongs to a world of creatures who follow a natural course [; I belong to a world of creatures who have fractured continuity into quarter hours and seconds, who try to mechanically impose our will even on day and night.] But each year I come here, vacating a culture of fractions and entering one of rhythms. Like many of us, I need a special place, just to find my own place, my own naturalness.

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bakansky · ベストアンサー

> Standing guard on elegant long legs, he picks off trespassers who swim too close to the border. When he is through and the water begins to intrude again, he takes off, arching out over the bay.

　優雅な長い足で立って自分の縄張りを監視して、誰かがその縄張りの近くを泳いで来ようものなら嘴で威嚇した。やがて時間が経ち、潮が再び流れ込んで来始めるや、飛び立って湾の上を弧を描いて飛ぶ。

> I belong to a world of creatures who have fractured continuity into quarter hours and seconds, who try to mechanically impose our will even on day and night.

　私は、区切り目の無い時間を細分化して、昼と夜という区分に対してさえも機械的な細分化を及ぼさずにはいられないような、そんな生き物の仲間であるのだ。

お礼

ありがとうございました！