和訳をして、空欄を埋めてください。
I A story is not merely an image of life, but of life in motion -- specifically, the presentation of individual characters moving through their particular experiences to some end that we may accept as meaningful. And the experience that is characteristically presented in a story is that of facing a problem, a conflict. To put it bluntly: no conflict, no story.
II It is no wonder that conflict should be at the center of fiction, for conflict is at the center of life.But why should we, when we have the contrast and often painful experience of conflict in life, and yearn for inner peace, turn to fiction, which centers on conflict?The fact is that our attitude toward conflict is difficult to understand.If we do find a totally satisfactory adjustment in life we tend to sink into boredom.Only when our surroundings - or we ourselves - become problematic again do we wake up and feel that rush of energy which is life.And life more abundantly lives is what we seek.
III So, even at the same time as we yearn for peace, we also yearn for the problematic.Explorers, sportspersons, gamblers, children playing hide-and-seek, teenage boys choosing up sides for a game of baseball, spectators cheering in a stadium - we all, in fact, seek out or create problematic situations of greater or lesser intensity.Such situations give us sense of heightened energy, a stronger sense of life.And fiction, too, gives us that heightened awareness of life, with all the fresh opportunity to release the rich emotional charge - tears, laughter, tenderness, sympathy, hate, love, and irony - that is stored up in us and can make us feel (5) with the accustomed.Furthermore, this heightened awareness ban be more fully enjoyed in fiction, because what in actually would be the threat of the problematic is here restricted to mere imagination, and because some kind of resolution of the problem is promised.
(5) 1.bored 2.satisfied 3.disappointed 4.frustrated
IV The story promises us a resolution, and we wait in suspense to learn how things will come out.We are in suspense, not only about what will happen, but even more about what the event will mean.We are in suspense about the story we are reading because weare in suspense about another story far closer and more important to us - the story of our own lives as we live them.We do not yet know how that story is going to come out. We do not yet know what it will mean. So, in that deep uncertainty about our own lives, which will be echoed in the suspense we feel about the story in fiction, we turn to fiction for some hint about the stories in the lives we live.The relation of our own lives to fictional lives is what, in a fundamental sense, attracts us to fiction.
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いつも回答ありがとうございます。 回答を読んでみると、何故こんなことがわからなかったのだろうと恥ずかしくなるのですが、自分でイメージを思い浮かべるのはなかなか難しいです。 whirring fanは天井にくっ付いてるものは思い浮かばず、日本によくある持ち運び式のものを思い浮かべていました。 そして、コードは点灯のためぶら下がっている軽い紐は思い浮かべず、重い重量のある電気コードを思い浮かべていました。 従って、そういう状況で何故重い重量のある電気コードが揺れるのか理解に苦しみました。 先のプールでお尻の出た所を引っ張って隠す動作とか、日常風景の何気ない描写が結構理解しにくいです。細かい描写のない軽いエッセーなどが一番読み易いのですが、重いエッセー作家はいっぱい居ても、軽いエーッセー作家というのは殆どいません(でしょ？)。また、読みやすいものばかり読んでいては上達しませんからね。 ありがとうございました。