5:39 If you could sum up New Orleans in a word:ニューオーリンズを一言で表すなら?
I would like to visit New Orleans because I felt happy watching the video, just as Mona Lisa Saloy said . However, I don’t feel like living there. There is a saying in Japan. “Wherever you live is the best place.” I like the place I live in now and don’t want to move anywhere else.
- booze mingles with beignets:「酒とベニエが混じり合う」ユニークな文化の融合
- irreverent holds hands with the sacred:不敬なものと神聖なものが共存する街の雰囲気
- everywhere else is ‘Cleveland.’:他のどこも退屈に思えるほど魅力的な街
- cradled in the crescent of the Mississippi’s embrace:ミシシッピ川の三日月型の湾曲部に抱かれた地形
- the area had been inhabited by indigenous people for centuries.:何世紀にもわたって先住民が暮らしていた地域
- even though it later proved no easy place to inhabit:住むのが簡単でないことが後にわかったが
- the wrath of Katrina:ハリケーン・カトリーナの猛威・災厄
- and Lord, we know how to party:私たちはパーティの仕方をよく知ってる(文化の楽しみ上手さの強調)
- pretty hearty folks:かなりたくましい人々
- free congregation:自由な集会(特に黒人が自由に集まれた歴史的意義)
- less criminal forms of sin:法律では裁かれない程度の「罪」(=やめられない快楽、皮肉)
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