Hello,
1. 遠くからだと富士山が朝霧の中にそびえているのが見え ます。
Translation given: "In the distance, faraway, you can see Mt. Fuji through the morning mist."
I'm assuming 遠くからだと = 遠くから ("from a distance") + だ (copula) + と, but I don't understand the function of と.
2. The writer is talking about a certain adult's approach to answering a question from a child:
どうしてそんな疑問を持つのかを一緒に考えてあげたほ うがいいと考えたのだろう。
My translation: "Probably he thought it would be good （for him and the child) to think together about why (the child) had such a question."
However, I don't exactly understand the compound 考えてあげた.
3. The text continues:
この子供はもしかしたら「早くあしたにならないかな」 とか「あしたにならないでほしい」と考えているのかも しれないからだ。
My part translation: "Perhaps this child was thinking something like '???' or 'I don't want tomorow to come'."
What does 早くあしたにならないかな mean? I assume it's something about tomorrow coming early/quickly, but I can't exactly get the overall sense. (The child's original question was 「あしたはどこにあるのですか」, which I assume means "Where is tomorrow?")
4. Next:
こういう考え方もあるのかと感心した。
I cannot make any sense of this sentence. To me it looks like "I admired whether there was also this way of thinking", which is nonsensical.
5. 自分の息子が「なぜ生きなければいけないの？」などと 聞いてきたら上手に答えてあげられるだろうか。答える からにはこちらも考えることが必要だ。
My translation: "When my son comes and asks something like 'Why do we have to live?', I wonder if I will be able to give him a good answer. As long as I'm answering him, it's important that I think (about the question) too."
Is this OK?
a) Does きたら mean "come" in a fairly literal sense (i.e. the son approaches the father to ask a question)?
b) あげられる is potential form, right?
c) In this case, where does だろうか lie on the scale of doubt or confidence?
6. 普段、仕事のことで願がいっぱいのお父さんたちもたま には素朴な疑問について考えるゆとりがほしいものであ る。
My translation: "Fathers normally preoccupied with work also want occasional time to think about simple questions."
I don't understand 願いっぱい and I can't find it in the dictionary. I just made up the "preoccupied" translation because it seemed to fit.
1. 遠くからだと富士山が朝霧の中にそびえているのが見え ます。
Translation given: "In the distance, faraway, you can see Mt. Fuji through the morning mist."
I'm assuming 遠くからだと = 遠くから ("from a distance") + だ (copula) + と, but I don't understand the function of と.
2. The writer is talking about a certain adult's approach to answering a question from a child:
どうしてそんな疑問を持つのかを一緒に考えてあげたほ うがいいと考えたのだろう。
My translation: "Probably he thought it would be good （for him and the child) to think together about why (the child) had such a question."
However, I don't exactly understand the compound 考えてあげた.
3. The text continues:
この子供はもしかしたら「早くあしたにならないかな」 とか「あしたにならないでほしい」と考えているのかも しれないからだ。
My part translation: "Perhaps this child was thinking something like '???' or 'I don't want tomorow to come'."
What does 早くあしたにならないかな mean? I assume it's something about tomorrow coming early/quickly, but I can't exactly get the overall sense. (The child's original question was 「あしたはどこにあるのですか」, which I assume means "Where is tomorrow?")
4. Next:
こういう考え方もあるのかと感心した。
I cannot make any sense of this sentence. To me it looks like "I admired whether there was also this way of thinking", which is nonsensical.
5. 自分の息子が「なぜ生きなければいけないの？」などと 聞いてきたら上手に答えてあげられるだろうか。答える からにはこちらも考えることが必要だ。
My translation: "When my son comes and asks something like 'Why do we have to live?', I wonder if I will be able to give him a good answer. As long as I'm answering him, it's important that I think (about the question) too."
Is this OK?
a) Does きたら mean "come" in a fairly literal sense (i.e. the son approaches the father to ask a question)?
b) あげられる is potential form, right?
c) In this case, where does だろうか lie on the scale of doubt or confidence?
6. 普段、仕事のことで願がいっぱいのお父さんたちもたま には素朴な疑問について考えるゆとりがほしいものであ る。
My translation: "Fathers normally preoccupied with work also want occasional time to think about simple questions."
I don't understand 願いっぱい and I can't find it in the dictionary. I just made up the "preoccupied" translation because it seemed to fit.