主席先生,女士们,先生们:今晚能获邀请,来到这么多认真的听众面前,用一种大家都很感兴趣、而我从小就学习、后来又讲授过多年的外国语讲话,我感到莫大的荣幸。此时此刻,诸如青年学生应该把学习英语当成促进日本与大西洋两岸讲英语的我们的友邦之间的商业和经济关系的一个重要手段之类的话,我想已无多说的必要,这些在会议的海报里已经讲明了。从纯粹理想主义或者文学的观点来说,我应该借此机会向大家申说在我国 Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am invited tonight to come to so many serious listeners. I am very much interested in all of them, but I have been studying since I was a young man and later have been teaching many years in foreign languages. I feel Great honor. At this very moment, such as when young students should learn English as an important means of promoting the commercial and economic relations between Japan and the friendly English speaking nations on both sides of the Atlantic, I think it is necessary to say nothing, The poster has already stated. From a purely idealistic or literary point of view, I should like to take this opportunity to make a statement to you in my country