1、Woman missing in Somalia Boyfriend worried she may be in jail 2、Getahun said he last spoke with Jama on Aug. 1, after she said she bribed a guard to use his cellphone. A telephone bill of that conversation shows a 27-minute call to a Somali cellphone. 3、The mysterious disappearance of a 23-year-old Toronto woman in Somalia has Canadian officials looking for her, and her boyfriend worried she’s being punished for their relationship. 4、Najah Jama has not been heard from since August when she called her boyfriend at the Toronto apartment they share, telling him she was jailed for refusing to marry a local Somali. Jama had left Toronto with her mother in March for a six-month vacation in northern Somalia. It was the first time she had ever visited her mother’s homeland. 5、The couple stayed in touch during her vacation, but in July a distraught Jama called her boyfriend, Seifu Getahun, to say she had been taken into custody. She said her mother had asked her to marry a Muslim man from her hometown and became upset and called police when Jama insisted she wanted to wed Getahun, a Canadian of Ethiopian Christian heritage. Ethiopia and Somalia have a long history of war, most recently exacerbated by the presence of Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu, the country’s anarchic capital.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007(新聞から抜粋。)
1、Woman missing in Somalia Boyfriend worried she may be in jail
1’、Woman who is missing in Somalia who:関係代名詞の省略 Boyfriend worried that she may be in jail that:省略・・・・worry that S+V :S+Vじゃないかと心配する。
2、Getahun said he last spoke with Jama on Aug. 1, after she said she bribed a guard to use his cellphone. A telephone bill of that conversation shows a 27-minute call to a Somali cellphone.
2’、Getahun said that he last spoke with Jama on Aug. 1, Getahun Jama:聞いたことないし大文字で始まるしきっと名前なはず♪ってことで訳さない^^ thatの省略・・・・said that S+V:S+Vと言った。
after she said that she bribed(=cheat) a guard in order to use his cellphone.
A telephone bill of that conversation shows a 27-minute call to a Somali cellphone.
3、The mysterious disappearance of a 23-year-old Toronto woman in Somalia has Canadian officials looking for her, and her boyfriend worried she’s being punished for their relationship.
3’、The mysterious disappearance of a 23-year-old Toronto woman in Somalia(←ここまで主語) has Canadian officials which is looking for her,
4、Najah Jama has not been heard from since August when she called her boyfriend at the Toronto apartment they share, telling him she was jailed for refusing to marry a local Somali. Jama had left Toronto with her mother in March for a six-month vacation in northern Somalia. It was the first time she had ever visited her mother’s homeland.
4’、Najah Jama has not been heard from since August when she called her boyfriend at the Toronto apartment they share,
when以降はAugustの説明です。
telling him that she was jailed for refusing to marry a local Somali.
marry 人:人と結婚する
be jailed for -ing:-のために刑務所に入れられる。
Jama had left Toronto with her mother in March for a six-month vacation in northern Somalia.
It was the first time that she had ever visited her mother’s homeland.
5、The couple stayed in touch during her vacation, but in July a distraught Jama called her boyfriend, Seifu Getahun, to say she had been taken into custody. She said her mother had asked her to marry a Muslim man from her hometown and became upset and called police when Jama insisted she wanted to wed Getahun, a Canadian of Ethiopian Christian heritage. Ethiopia and Somalia have a long history of war, most recently exacerbated by the presence of Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu, the country’s anarchic capital.
5’、The couple stayed in touch during her vacation,
stay in touch=keep in touch:連絡を取る
but in July a distraught(=confused) Jama called her boyfriend, Seifu Getahun,
in order to say that she had been taken into custody.
be take into custody=監視下にある
She said that her mother had asked her to marry a Muslim man who is from her hometown
and her mother became upset
and called police
when Jama insisted that she wanted to wed Getahun,
wed=marry
a Canadian of Ethiopian Christian heritage. (←Getahunの説明)
Ethiopia and Somalia have a long history of war,
most recently exacerbated by the presence of Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu,