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{
"en": "I mean, the Pointer Sisters said it most eloquently, didn't they, when they sang the praises of \"a lover with a slow hand.\" ",
"ja": "ポインター・シスターズの歌にあるように、スローハンドが大切ですね。"
} |
{
"en": "Now, we all laughed at Sting a few years ago when he went Tantric, but you fast-forward a few years, and now you find couples of all ages flocking to workshops, or maybe just on their own in their own bedrooms, finding ways to put on the brakes and have better sex. ",
"ja": "スティングが数年前に、タントリックセックスに言及した際は、馬鹿にされましたが今では多くのカップルが、ワークショップに行ったり、よりスローなセックスを、求めています。"
} |
{
"en": "And of course, in Italy where -- I mean, Italians always seem to know where to find their pleasure -- they've launched an official Slow Sex movement. ",
"ja": "イタリア人は喜びを見つけるのが、上手ですが、スローセックス運動が正式に始まっています。"
} |
{
"en": "The workplace. ",
"ja": "労働に関しても。"
} |
{
"en": "Right across much of the world -- North America being a notable exception -- working hours have been coming down. ",
"ja": "北米は例外としても、多くの国で労働時間が、短くなっています。"
} |
{
"en": "And Europe is an example of that, and people finding that their quality of life improves as they're working less, and also that their hourly productivity goes up. ",
"ja": "ヨーロッパは労働時間を、短くすることが生活の質だけでなく、仕事の効率もあげるということが、わかってきました。"
} |
{
"en": "Now, clearly there are problems with the 35-hour workweek in France -- too much, too soon, too rigid. ",
"ja": "フランスでの、週35時間労働制は、柔軟性がなく、早計だったのは確かですが。"
} |
{
"en": "But other countries in Europe, notably the Nordic countries, are showing that it's possible to have a kick-ass economy without being a workaholic. ",
"ja": "北欧は、仕事中毒になることなく、良好な経済状態を、保つことが可能という、証明しています。"
} |
{
"en": "And Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland now rank among the top six most competitive nations on Earth, and they work the kind of hours that would make the average American weep with envy. ",
"ja": "ノルウェー、スウェーデン、デンマーク、フィンランドは今、世界の上位6カ国以内にランクされています。労働時間はアメリカ人が、泣いてうらやましむほどです。"
} |
{
"en": "And if you go beyond sort of the country level, down at the micro-company level, more and more companies now are realizing that they need to allow their staff either to work fewer hours or just to unplug -- to take a lunch break, or to go sit in a quiet room, to switch off their Blackberrys and laptops -- you at the back -- mobile phones, during the work day or on the weekend, so that they have time to recharge and for the brain to slide into that kind of creative mode of thought. ",
"ja": "国レベルではなくミクロレベルで、見てみると、多くの企業が、従業員の労働時間を、短縮するか、休憩時間を増やし、携帯やPCを切り、仕事の合間や週末に、リフレッシュすることで、創造的な考えを、促しています。"
} |
{
"en": "It's not just, though, these days, adults who overwork, though, is it? It's children, too. ",
"ja": "大人だけではなく子供でさえ、働きすぎです。"
} |
{
"en": "I'm 37, and my childhood ended in the mid-'80s, and I look at kids now, and I'm just amazed by the way they race around with more homework, more tutoring, more extracurriculars than we would ever have conceived of a generation ago. ",
"ja": "私は今37才なので80年代中盤に、幼少時代を終えましたが、今日の子供は、たくさんの宿題、家庭教師や課外活動で、比べ物にならないくらい忙しいです。"
} |
{
"en": "And some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to write to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full-throttle treadmill. ",
"ja": "私のサイトに届いた、胸の張り裂けるようなメールは、疲れ果てているという、若者からで、私に自分たちの親を説得し、全速力の生活から救い出してほしいとの、お願いでした。"
} |
{
"en": "But thankfully, there is a backlash there in parenting as well, and you're finding that, you know, towns in the United States are now banding together and banning extracurriculars on a particular day of the month, so that people can, you know, decompress and have some family time, and slow down. ",
"ja": "しかし今、アメリカのいくつかの町では、課外活動を禁止する日を、協力して設定することで、家族とゆっくり過ごすよう、促しています。"
} |
{
"en": "Homework is another thing. There are homework bans springing up all over the developed world in schools which had been piling on the homework for years, and now they're discovering that less can be more. ",
"ja": "宿題に関しても同様です。先進国では長年にわたり、子供を宿題漬けにしてきましたが、宿題禁止が広がっています。"
} |
{
"en": "So there was a case up in Scotland recently where a fee-paying, high-achieving private school banned homework for everyone under the age of 13, and the high-achieving parents freaked out and said, \"What are you -- you know, our kids will fall\" -- the headmaster said, \"No, no, your children need to slow down at the end of the day.\" ",
"ja": "スコットランドでは最近、私立の有名な進学校で、13才以下への、宿題を禁止しました。親たちは驚愕し子供の成績が、落ちることを危惧しましたが、スローダウンすることが大切と。"
} |
{
"en": "And just this last month, the exam results came in, and in math, science, marks went up 20 percent on average last year. ",
"ja": "校長は説き伏せ、結果的に、数学と科学の成績は昨年平均の、20％増になりました。"
} |
{
"en": "And I think what's very revealing is that the elite universities, who are often cited as the reason that people drive their kids and hothouse them so much, are starting to notice the caliber of students coming to them is falling. These kids have wonderful marks; they have CVs jammed with extracurriculars, to the point that would make your eyes water. ",
"ja": "また、英才教育の、代名詞となっている有名大学が、生徒たちの力量の低下に、気づき始めました。その生徒たちは考えられないくらい、成績優秀で、課外活動も多くこなしています。"
} |
{
"en": "But they lack spark; they lack the ability to think creatively and think outside -- they don't know how to dream. And so what these Ivy League schools, and Oxford and Cambridge and so on, are starting to send a message to parents and students that they need to put on the brakes a little bit. ",
"ja": "しかし、ひらめきが、そして、想像力が欠如し、夢がありません アイビーリーグや、オックスフォード、ケンブリッジ等の有名大学は、親や生徒にもう少しスローダウンするように進言してます。"
} |
{
"en": "And in Harvard, for instance, they send out a letter to undergraduates -- freshmen -- telling them that they'll get more out of life, and more out of Harvard, if they put on the brakes, if they do less, but give time to things, the time that things need, to enjoy them, to savor them. ",
"ja": "ハーバード大学では、新入生に手紙を送り、スローダウンして、一つ一つのことを、深く味わい学ぶことで、より多くのことを得ることができると、伝えています。"
} |
{
"en": "And even if they sometimes do nothing at all. ",
"ja": "何もしないということでも。"
} |
{
"en": "And that letter is called -- very revealing, I think -- \"Slow Down!\" -- with an exclamation mark on the end. ",
"ja": "学ぶことができるとも言っており、この手紙は「スローダウンしよう！」という題が付いています。"
} |
{
"en": "So wherever you look, the message, it seems to me, is the same: that less is very often more, that slower is very often better. But that said, of course, it's not that easy to slow down, is it? ",
"ja": "このようなメッセージを見て、減らすということでより多くを学べ、スローにすることで、より良くなると、改めて感じますが、スローダウンすることは容易ではありません。"
} |
{
"en": "I mean, you heard that I got a speeding ticket while I was researching my book on the benefits of slowness, and that's true, but that's not all of it. ",
"ja": "スローの効果に関する調査をしている時、スピード違反で捕まってしまいました。スローフードのレストランでの。"
} |
{
"en": "I was actually en route to a dinner held by Slow Food at the time. ",
"ja": "夕食に向かう途中でした。それはイタリアでのことでしたが。"
} |
{
"en": "And if that's not shaming enough, I got that ticket in Italy. ",
"ja": "イタリアの高速で運転したことがある人なら。"
} |
{
"en": "And if any of you have ever driven on an Italian highway, you'll have a pretty good idea of how fast I was going. ",
"ja": "どれだけスピードを出していたか、お分かりいただけると思います。"
} |
{
"en": "(Laughter) But why is it so hard to slow down? ",
"ja": "（笑い）、なぜスローダウンするのは難しいのでしょう。"
} |
{
"en": "I think there are various reasons. ",
"ja": "理由はたくさんあります。"
} |
{
"en": "One is that speed is fun, you know, speed is sexy. ",
"ja": "スピードは時に楽しいものです。"
} |
{
"en": "It's all that adrenaline rush. It's hard to give it up. ",
"ja": "アドレナリンが出て病みつきになります。"
} |
{
"en": "I think there's a kind of metaphysical dimension -- that speed becomes a way of walling ourselves off from the bigger, deeper questions. ",
"ja": "形而上学的には、スピードは大きな深い疑問から、自分を守る手段です。"
} |
{
"en": "We fill our head with distraction, with busyness, so that we don't have to ask, am I well? Am I happy? Are my children growing up right? ",
"ja": "忙しさで頭をいっぱいにし、健康や幸せ、子供たちの成長、国政について等、深く考えないように。"
} |
{
"en": "Are politicians making good decisions on my behalf? ",
"ja": "しているのです。"
} |
{
"en": "Another reason -- although I think, perhaps, the most powerful reason -- why we find it hard to slow down is the cultural taboo that we've erected against slowing down. ",
"ja": "もう一つの大きな理由として、文化的なタブーが関わっています。私たちの文化でスローダウンは。"
} |
{
"en": "\"Slow\" is a dirty word in our culture. ",
"ja": "よくないことと見なしてきました。"
} |
{
"en": "It's a byword for \"lazy,\" \"slacker,\" for being somebody who gives up. ",
"ja": "スローは怠惰や、怠け者の代名詞です。"
} |
{
"en": "You know, \"he's a bit slow.\" It's actually synonymous with being stupid. ",
"ja": "「彼はスローだ」という言葉は、「馬鹿」と同義です。"
} |
{
"en": "I guess what the Slow Movement -- the purpose of the Slow Movement, or its main goal, really, is to tackle that taboo, and to say that yes, sometimes slow is not the answer, that there is such a thing as \"bad slow.\" ",
"ja": "スロー運動の目的は、タブーに立ち向かうことです。もちろん、スローが常に正しいわけではなく、悪いスローというものもあります。"
} |
{
"en": "You know, I got stuck on the M25, which is a ring road around London, recently, and spent three-and-a-half hours there. And I can tell you, that's really bad slow. ",
"ja": "ロンドンの25号線で、3時間半も、渋滞に巻き込まれました。これは、悪いスローといえます。"
} |
{
"en": "But the new idea, the sort of revolutionary idea, of the Slow Movement, is that there is such a thing as \"good slow,\" too. ",
"ja": "しかし新しい考え方では、良いスローという革新的なことに、着眼しています。"
} |
{
"en": "And good slow is, you know, taking the time to eat a meal with your family, with the TV switched off. ",
"ja": "良いスローとはテレビを消して、家族とゆっくり食事をすることです。"
} |
{
"en": "Or taking the time to look at a problem from all angles in the office to make the best decision at work. ",
"ja": "また、仕事では時間をかけて、問題を様々な角度から、検証することです。"
} |
{
"en": "Or even simply just taking the time to slow down and savor your life. ",
"ja": "また、単純に、ゆっくり自分の人生を、楽しむことです。"
} |
{
"en": "Now, one of the things that I found most uplifting about all of this stuff that's happened around the book since it came out, is the reaction to it. ",
"ja": "本を出版してから、一番うれしいことは、その反響です。"
} |
{
"en": "And I knew that when my book on slowness came out, it would be welcomed by the New Age brigade, but it's also been taken up, with great gusto, by the corporate world -- you know, business press, but also big companies and leadership organizations. ",
"ja": "スローに関する本が、新しい世代に共感されることは、予想していましたが、業界紙に取り上げられ、大企業や組織も、興味を示してくれました。"
} |
{
"en": "Because people at the top of the chain, people like you, I think, are starting to realize that there's too much speed in the system, there's too much busyness, and it's time to find, or get back to that lost art of shifting gears. ",
"ja": "組織のトップの方々が、スピード偏重の問題に、気づいて、スローダウンする必要性を、感じています。"
} |
{
"en": "Another encouraging sign, I think, is that it's not just in the developed world that this idea's been taken up. In the developing world, in countries that are on the verge of making that leap into first world status -- China, Brazil, Thailand, Poland, and so on -- these countries have embraced the idea of the Slow Movement, many people in them, and there's a debate going on in their media, on the streets. ",
"ja": "また、先進国だけでなく、先進国の仲間入りを果たそうとしている、新興国である、中国やブラジル、タイやポーランドでも、同様にスロー運動の考えが、多くの人に共感を与えており、メディアや市民間で、話し合われています。"
} |
{
"en": "Because I think they're looking at the West, and they're saying, \"Well, we like that aspect of what you've got, but we're not so sure about that.\" ",
"ja": "彼らにとって西欧諸国は、見習うべきものでもありますが、そうでないところもあると感じているのです。"
} |
{
"en": "So all of that said, is it, I guess, is it possible? ",
"ja": "つまるところ、私たちの前に立ちはだかる疑問は。"
} |
{
"en": "That's really the main question before us today. Is it possible to slow down? And I'm happy to be able to say to you that the answer is a resounding yes. ",
"ja": "スローダウンすることは、本当に可能なのかどうかです。答えは、はっきりと可能といえます。"
} |
{
"en": "And I present myself as Exhibit A, a kind of reformed and rehabilitated speed-aholic. ",
"ja": "その証拠として、私自身が、スピード中毒から、更生できています。"
} |
{
"en": "I still love speed. You know, I live in London, and I work as a journalist, and I enjoy the buzz and the busyness, and the adrenaline rush that comes from both of those things. ",
"ja": "いまだにスピードは好きです。ロンドンに住んでますし、記者ですから、忙しさからくる、アドレナリンを感じることは好きです。"
} |
{
"en": "I play squash and ice hockey, two very fast sports, and I wouldn't give them up for the world. ",
"ja": "スカッシュやアイスホッケーという、スピード重視のスポーツが好きです。"
} |
{
"en": "But I've also, over the last year or so, got in touch with my inner tortoise. ",
"ja": "しかしここ数年、心の中の亀とも共存しています。"
} |
{
"en": "(Laughter) And what that means is that I no longer overload myself gratuitously. ",
"ja": "（笑い）、以前のように、やみくもに背負いすぎない、ようにしています。"
} |
{
"en": "My default mode is no longer to be a rush-aholic. ",
"ja": "スピード偏重でも、なくなりました。"
} |
{
"en": "I no longer hear time's winged chariot drawing near, or at least not as much as I did before. ",
"ja": "時間が刻一刻と、迫りくる感覚は、もう感じられなくなるほどになりました。"
} |
{
"en": "I can actually hear it now, because I see my time is ticking off. ",
"ja": "今日の残り時間が迫っているのは見えています。"
} |
{
"en": "And the upshot of all of that is that I actually feel a lot happier, healthier, more productive than I ever have. ",
"ja": "これらの結果として、私はより幸せに、より健康に、より生産的になることができ。"
} |
{
"en": "I feel like I'm living my life rather than actually just racing through it. ",
"ja": "人生をレースするのではなく、生きていると感じることができます。"
} |
{
"en": "And perhaps, the most important measure of the success of this is that I feel that my relationships are a lot deeper, richer, stronger. ",
"ja": "そして、何よりもの成功は、人間関係が、より深く豊かに強くなったこと、だと思います。"
} |
{
"en": "And for me, I guess, the litmus test for whether this would work, and what it would mean, was always going to be bedtime stories, because that's sort of where the journey began. And there too the news is rosy. You know, at the end of the day, I go into my son's room. ",
"ja": "うまくいっているかは、いつも子供を寝かしつける時に、わかります。スローへの回帰が始まった原点です。一日の終わりに、子供の部屋に入る時。"
} |
{
"en": "I don't wear a watch. I switch off my computer, so I can't hear the email pinging into the basket, and I just slow down to his pace and we read. ",
"ja": "腕時計はつけません。パソコンも消します。子供のペースに合わせて本を読みます。"
} |
{
"en": "And because children have their own tempo and internal clock, they don't do quality time, where you schedule 10 minutes for them to open up to you. ",
"ja": "子供たちは自分たちのペースを、もっています。10分間のベッドタイムストーリーを。"
} |
{
"en": "They need you to move at their rhythm. ",
"ja": "子供のペースで読んで聞かせると。"
} |
{
"en": "I find that 10 minutes into a story, you know, my son will suddenly say, \"You know, something happened in the playground today that really bothered me.\" ",
"ja": "突然、「今日学校で、嫌なことがあったんだ」と、話し始めます。そして。"
} |
{
"en": "And we'll go off and have a conversation on that. ",
"ja": "二人でそれについて話すのです。"
} |
{
"en": "And I now find that bedtime stories used to be a box on my to-do list, something that I dreaded, because it was so slow and I had to get through it quickly. ",
"ja": "以前は本を読み聞かせるのは、To、Doリストの一つであり、時間がかかるため、好きではありませんでした。"
} |
{
"en": "It's become my reward at the end of the day, something I really cherish. ",
"ja": "今では一日の終わりのご褒美で、とても大切な時間です。"
} |
{
"en": "And I have a kind of Hollywood ending to my talk this afternoon, which goes a little bit like this: a few months ago, I was getting ready to go on another book tour, and I had my bags packed. ",
"ja": "ハリウッド映画の、ハッピーエンドみたいですが、数ヶ月前に、本の宣伝ツアーのため、荷物を用意して。"
} |
{
"en": "I was downstairs by the front door, and I was waiting for a taxi, and my son came down the stairs and he'd made a card for me. And he was carrying it. ",
"ja": "一階でタクシーを待っていると、息子が手作りのカードを持って、二階から下りてきました。"
} |
{
"en": "He'd gone and stapled two cards, very like these, together, and put a sticker of his favorite character, Tintin, on the front. ",
"ja": "二つのカードを重ねて留めて、好きなキャラクターが前面に、貼ってあります。"
} |
{
"en": "And he said to me, or he handed this to me, and I read it, and it said, \"To Daddy, love Benjamin.\" ",
"ja": "受け取って、読んでみると、「お父さんへ愛をこめて」と。"
} |
{
"en": "And I thought, \"Aw, that's really sweet. ",
"ja": "書いてあり、「ありがとう。"
} |
{
"en": "Is that a good luck on the book tour card?\" ",
"ja": "本のツアーのお守りかな」というと。"
} |
{
"en": "And he said, \"No, no, no, Daddy -- this is a card for being the best story reader in the world.\" ",
"ja": "「違うよ、お父さんは世界で一番、本を読むのが上手だからだよ」。"
} |
{
"en": "And I thought, \"Yeah, you know, this slowing down thing really does work.\" ",
"ja": "やはりスローダウンすることは大切ですね。"
} |
{
"en": "Thank you very much. ",
"ja": "どうもありがとうございました。"
} |
{
"en": "I am a reformed marketer, and I now work in international development. ",
"ja": "私は以前、マーケティングをしていました。今は国際開発に携わっています。"
} |
{
"en": "In October, I spent some time in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is the [second] largest country in Africa. ",
"ja": "この前の10月、コンゴに行く節がありました。コンゴはアフリカで２番目に大きな国です。"
} |
{
"en": "In fact, it's as large as Western Europe, but it only has 300 miles of paved roads. ",
"ja": "面積は実に西ヨーロッパと同じほどありますが、舗装された道路は480km程しか通っていません。"
} |
{
"en": "The DRC is a dangerous place. ",
"ja": "コンゴは危険な場所です。"
} |
{
"en": "In the past 10 years, five million people have died due to a war in the east. ",
"ja": "ここ10年間、東部で戦死した方の数は、500万にのぼります。"
} |
{
"en": "But war isn't the only reason that life is difficult in the DRC. ",
"ja": "しかしコンゴが不安定な理由は、戦争だけではないのです。"
} |
{
"en": "There are many health issues as well. ",
"ja": "健康問題も数多くあります。"
} |
{
"en": "In fact, the HIV prevalence rate is 1.3 percent among adults. ",
"ja": "実際の数値としては、成人のHIV感染率は1.3%です。"
} |
{
"en": "This might not sound like a large number, but in a country with 76 million people, it means there are 930,000 that are infected. ",
"ja": "それほど多いとは感じないでしょうが、7600万の国民を抱える国では、93万人の感染者がいることになります。"
} |
{
"en": "And due to the poor infrastructure, only 25 percent of those are receiving the life-saving drugs that they need. ",
"ja": "社会基盤は整っておらず、25％の人々しか、人命に関わる薬を手にできていません。"
} |
{
"en": "Which is why, in part, donor agencies provide condoms at low or no cost. ",
"ja": "こういった理由もあり、寄付団体が安価・無料の、コンドームを提供しています。"
} |
{
"en": "And so while I was in the DRC, I spent a lot of time talking to people about condoms, including Damien. ",
"ja": "さて私はコンゴにいる間、人々と、コンドームについてたくさん話をしました。彼はデイミアンです。"
} |
{
"en": "Damien runs a hotel outside of Kinshasa. ",
"ja": "キンシャサの郊外でホテルを経営しています。"
} |
{
"en": "It's a hotel that's only open until midnight, so it's not a place that you stay. ",
"ja": "このホテルは24時には閉まります。そう、ここは宿泊施設ではなく。"
} |
{
"en": "But it is a place where sex workers and their clients come. ",
"ja": "性労働者が顧客を連れて商いをする場所なんです。"
} |
{
"en": "Now Damien knows all about condoms, but he doesn't sell them. ",
"ja": "デイミアンはコンドームに精通していますが、これを売ってはいません。"
} |
{
"en": "He said there's just not in demand. ",
"ja": "需要がないと言っていました。"
} |
{
"en": "It's not surprising, because only three percent of people in the DRC use condoms. ",
"ja": "コンゴでコンドームを使用する人の、割合が３%であることを考えれば、驚く程のことではありません。"
} |
{
"en": "Joseph and Christine, who run a pharmacy where they sell a number of these condoms, said despite the fact that donor agencies provide them at low or no cost, and they have marketing campaigns that go along with them, their customers don't buy the branded versions. ",
"ja": "こちらはジョセフとクリスティーンです。薬局をやっていてコンドームも多数扱っています。しかし寄付団体が安価、もしくは無料でこれを提供しても、また、マーケティングキャンペーンをしても、寄付団体のブランドものは売れないそうです。"
} |
{
"en": "They like the generics. ",
"ja": "ジェネリックが人気なんですね。"
} |
{
"en": "And as a marketer, I found that curious. ",
"ja": "マーケティング経験者として不思議に思い。"
} |
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