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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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No.2 ベストアンサー 回答者： Syntactic_Structures 回答日時： 2018/06/06 15:53

> どうも、最後の the domestication of the human male が何を言いたいのかよくわからなくて。

全体を見ないとね。
その前後を引用します。
訳さないけど、要するに、「男」を「父親」「夫」にすることが文明化だというところかな。

It would be a mistake to think of the American father as a loose collection of his various roles. To be sure, he is father, husband, escort, sexual partner, bill payer, game player, car driver, fire lighter, tire changer, handyman, house putterer, bicycle teacher, morals preacher, character builder, tuition provider, drink pourer, roast carver, meal ticket, insurance rack, Rock of Ages who was there before you were born and will provide for you after he is dead.
He may play all these roles and others too, but if he is any good he is not fragmented into them, the way the woman sometimes is. In all his roles he is still the quester, the fertility giver, the male principle. More than a father or husband, he is a man. If he is not male, then he is no one and nothing.
He has been quiet, patient, hard-working, long-enduring. But don't count on it. Don't push him. If you do, he will not strike back (that is not his way with women) but he may just walk out of the house and the bank job, leaving the womenfolk behind, and turn up in Tahiti to daub at canvas and spend his life in the sun. Human history, if you read it right, is the record of the efforts to tame Father. Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male. The job was not done wholly by the women. The male let himself in for it by his own vulnerability. I don't mean his sexual drive, because he could satisfy that more variously by being a roamer instead of a homer. I mean his drive to fatherhood-- the curious, intricate satisfaction of having your seed made blood and bone, and seeing your line preserved and extended. That is why the Old Testament is full of so many "begats."

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回答、ありがとうございました。ここから取られたものが名言として載っているわけですね。このような文脈があるとはっきり意味がわかりました。

お礼日時：2018/06/07 11:06

No.3 回答者： tanukikouj 回答日時： 2018/06/06 20:22

火の使用、車輪の発見、の次に文化生活の偉大な勝利と呼べるのは、家庭的になった男である。

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回答、ありがとうございました。
domestication はやはり動詞的に訳したほうがいいように思います。

お礼日時：2018/06/07 11:07

No.1 回答者： Syntactic_Structures 回答日時： 2018/06/06 12:45

Next to ～に次いで

the striking of fire and　火をおこすことと
the discovery of the wheel,　車輪を発見すること

the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was
我々が文明と呼ぶものの最大の勝利は

the domestication of the human male.
男性の飼育

「火をおこし、車輪を発見したことは、いわゆる文明の最大の勝利である。
それに次ぐ勝利は男を飼い慣らすことであった。」

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回答、ありがとうございます。
これは、max lerner という人の famous quotes の１つのようなのですが、どうも、最後の the domestication of the human male が何を言いたいのかよくわからなくて。

お礼日時：2018/06/06 12:51