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English USA
Lesson 86, Part 2

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Part 1に引き続き、過去の出来事を対比することを学びます。マーティンは米国史を専門とする教授にインタビューします。彼らは南北戦争(the Civil War)の戦場跡のひとつに来ています。そこでは人々に南北戦争の様子を見せるための擬似の実演が行われています。

　 This is English USA, on the Voice of America. Now, Lesson 86, Part 2.

　

　

　

MARTIN:

Professor Atkins, why are so many Americans interested in the Civil War?

　

ATKINS:

Most people can't imagine fighting their own people. All war is terrible. But a civil war is the worst.

　

MARTIN:

Many countries have had civil wars.

　

ATKINS:

Unfortunately. But many people feel it's also important to keep a country together. Abraham Lincoln felt that way in 1861. Many of the American people felt that way too.

　

MARTIN:

You said the Civil War was the first modern war. What did you mean?

　

ATKINS:

It wasn't modern in the way soldiers fought. Mostly the soldiers did the same thing soldiers had done in earlier wars. World War One was more modern. There was modern equipment. New technology. The way soldiers fought was different.

　

MARTIN:

Then what did you mean that the Civil War was modern?

　

ATKINS:

In the reasons the North won. Not in the fighting itself.

　

MARTIN:

OK.

　

ATKINS:

Some historians say the South had a better military. But the North won the war.

　

MARTIN:

How did the North win then?

　

ATKINS:

They won economically.

　

MARTIN:

What does that mean?

　

ATKINS:

The North had the factories. They could make the guns, and clothes, and things the soldiers needed.

　

MARTIN:

And the South had few factories.

　

ATKINS:

That's right. In the past, the biggest and best armies won wars. In modern wars, the ones with the most money and the most factories usually win.

　

MARTIN:

What are some other contrasts between the Civil War and later wars?

　

ATKINS:

For Americans?

　

MARTIN:

Let's talk about Americans first.

　

ATKINS:

More soldiers died in the Civil War. More than six hundred thousand died in the Civil War. About one hundred sixteen thousand died in World War One.

　

MARTIN:

What else?

　

ATKINS:

In World War One, most of the battles were in Europe. There were none in the U.S. The damage was done in Europe.

　

MARTIN:

I understand.

　

ATKINS:

It was even worse after World War Two.

　

MARTIN:

In what way?

　

ATKINS:

The damage in World War Two was worse.

　

MARTIN:

Because of the modern technology.

　

ATKINS:

Yes, everything was more deadly. The war caused more deaths. It damaged more things.

　

MARTIN:

What kinds of things?

　

ATKINS:

Factories, of course. Transportation, especially railroads and trains. Shipping. Nearly all the harbors were destroyed. Some agriculture. And housing. Many cities or parts of cities were destroyed.

　

MARTIN:

That was very different from the Civil War battlefields.

　

2.
　

マーティンとアトキンス教授が過去の2つの出来事を対比する様子を聴いてください。

　

ATKINS:

Soldiers from the North were on that hill.

　

MARTIN:

Soldiers from the South were over there.

　

　

　

　

ATKINS:

The North had the factories.

　

MARTIN:

And the South had few factories.

　

　

　

　

ATKINS:

More than six hundred thousand died in the Civil War.

　

MARTIN:

About one hundred sixteen thousand died in World War One.

　

　

　

　

ATKINS:

Most of the battles were in Europe.

　

MARTIN:

There were none in the U.S.

　

3.
　

これからマーティンとアトキンス教授が一例として建物に住んでいる人の数を対比しますので聞いてください。

　

MARTIN:

Forty-five people lived in this building.

　

ATKINS:

Fifteen people lived in that building.

　


　

上の例にならって、これからマーティンが言うことに対して対比することを言ってください。対比するのは時でも場所でも行動でも結構です。

　

MARTIN:

On Monday I go to work.

　

YOU:

[------------------.]

　

　

　

　

MARTIN:

I lived in Chicago.

　

YOU:

[------------------.]

　

　

　

　

MARTIN:

On Friday we went to town.

　

YOU:

[------------------.]

Lesson 86, Part 2はこれで終わりです。

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English USA L86P2
Courtesy of Voice of America
　

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