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１月１４日の英文添削「日本語での解釈例」への挑戦として以下のものを書いてみました。講師のどなたかに添削して頂き結果を後日投稿します。これを機会によい英文が書けるようになりたいと思います。

A Texan who had lived his life talking extravagantly big, just as other Texans did, realized one day that Texas was not the largest state in the US, but Alaska was, and had been brooding it over since then.

He finally made up his mind, and went to Alaska.  He intended to become an Alaskan, and talk bigger without feeling inferior as to the size of the state he lived in.  At the Last Chance Saloon, he asked the bartender, “How do I get to be an Alaskan?”  The bartender, tempted to have a little fun, replied, “Friend, you can’t be a full-blooded Alaskan until you’ve downed a pint of whiskey at one gulp, danced with an Eskimo and shot a polar bear.”  “It’s a piece of cake,” said the Texan, and ordered the pint of whiskey.  He got it down at one gulp, and lurched from the saloon.

The bartender and the customers at the scene, anxious to see what would happen, waited until almost midnight, when the Texan stumbled through the doors all scratched and ripped and bloody.  “Okay,” he said, “okay, I’m gonna be an Alaskan.  Now where’s the Eskimo I’m supposed to shoot?

The Texan, under the influence of a pint of whiskey, got mixed up with a polar bear and an Eskimo, that was, he thought he had to dance with a polar bear and shoot an Eskimo.  He found a polar bear, and attempted to dance with it.  After struggling with the angry beast, he barely made it to safety, and looked for an Eskimo as the next target.  But, fortunately for him and the Eskimo people in the area, he couldn’t find one.  So he returned to the saloon, and asked where he would find an Eskimo.