#310 三島由紀夫『禁色』
俊輔は三年前に喪った三度目の妻の美しい面ざしを心にうかべた。五十歳の妻は、その半ばに充たない年齢の若い恋人と心中したのである。彼女が死んだ理由はわかっていた。俊輔と一緒に送る醜い老後を怖れたのである。
Vocabulary:
三島由紀夫 みしまゆきお Mishima Yukio (1925-1970)
喪う うしなう to lose
面ざし おもざし looks, features
醜い みにくい ugly
Translation:
Shunsuke pictured the beautiful features of his third wife whom he had lost three years earlier. His fifty-year-old wife committed suicide with a lover not even half her age. He knew why she died. She feared the ugly geriatric years she and Shunsuke would spend together.
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