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‘Maybe he’s a vampire,’ Jamie says. ‘Yeah.’ I think for a moment, and something else comes back to me. ‘I think he used to be that other thing,’ I say vaguely. The word hits. ‘Politician.’ Jamie says, ‘I’ve got a whole story about vampires from a haunted tomb in one of these.’ He indicates the several stacks of comics that are lined up against the wall of his room. (前回の終わりの部分です） Jamie’s bedroom isn’t anything like mine. My room is quite small, with a ceiling that slopes down from the door to the window. Under my window is the gentle pitch of the kitchen roof; if I crane my head far out to the left, I can see the end of my mother’s verandah roof at the back of the house, where the iron stove-pipe of the little fat stove comes up through it. My bed is against one wall, and a wardrobe stands by the door that leads through to the back bedroom that is sometimes Lena’s. I have a little cupboard of toys, too, and some big picture-books which I still love and look at, though I know my father doesn’t like them. Apart from these things, my room is quite bare: the walls are pale, the ceiling white, the surround of the window dark wood. The best thing is the view: right along the row of our neighbours’ houses and up the valley. ****************************************** 主人公のAlexはartistで、展示会に備えるために、幼い頃過ごしたイタリアに戻ってきています。この英文は幼い頃の回想シーンです。 Under my window is the gentle pitch of the kitchen roofの中の、 the gentle pitchとはどういうものなのでしょうか？ My bed is against one wall, and a wardrobe stands by the door that leads through to the back bedroom that is sometimes Lena’s.について、and a wardrobe stands～の意味なのですが、洋服ダンスはドアのそばにある、、、次のleads through to the back bedroom that is sometimes Lena’sのところが意味がとれません。ときどきLenaのベッドルームになる後ろを通って？？？ right along the row of our neighbours’ houses and up the valley.の出だしのrightは右側という意味ですか？ 教えてください。お願いします。

My parents still talk about it sometimes. He makes me tell him about the people – the figures he’s seen around town, the other children, our neighbours. I pour out all of Lena’s patchwork history of the town while he sits, attentive, soaking it up again. And I tell him the things Lena doesn’t know, or doesn’t like to mention: like Lucia being a witch. Like Signor Ferucci. （前回の終わりの部分です） ‘Up there on the side of the valley,’ I say, pointing out the window. ‘Well, you can’t really see it from here. But there’s a big white house, and it’s got a wall all round, high up, and gates. For miles. And he lives in there and he never comes out. Well, hardly ever.’ ‘Have you ever seen him?’ Jamie asks. ‘Well, sometimes. In town. He’s got a beard and he looks a bit scary. He’s really tall.’ ‘Is it a mad beard – like, all wild?’ ‘No,’ I say, slightly surprised. ‘No, it’s neat.’ ‘Oh.’ ‘Nobody knows what he does in there,’ I add. ‘Lena says—’ There’s a pause. I concentrate very hard on not going away from Jamie. He doesn’t always mind it when I do, but sometimes I sense that he is a little worried. Lena’s word comes drifting back to me. ‘Lena says he’s – recluse,’ I say. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Someone – someone who doesn’t like to come out.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Maybe he’s a vampire,’ Jamie says. ‘Yeah.’ I think for a moment, and something else comes back to me. ‘I think he used to be that other thing,’ I say vaguely. The word hits. ‘Politician.’ Jamie says, ‘I’ve got a whole story about vampires from a haunted tomb in one of these.’ He indicates the several stacks of comics that are lined up against the wall of his room. ****************************************** 主人公のAlexはartistで、展示会に備えるために、幼い頃過ごしたイタリアに戻ってきています。この英文は幼い頃の回想シーンです。 But there’s a big white house, and it’s got a wall all round, high up, and gates. For miles.のFor milesはどうやって訳すのでしょうか？ I concentrate very hard on not going away from Jamie. を訳すと、僕は Jamieから去らないことに非常に一生懸命に集中した、ですか？これはどういう意味なのでしょうか？ 教えてください。お願いします。

１「父親の転勤でイギリスで生まれたんだよ。」 ２「でも、６歳で日本に家族と一緒に帰って、それ以来英語を喋ってないから英語をほとんど忘れてるんだよね。」 父の転勤での部分becauseと接続詞で表せると思うのですが、my father's being transferedと動名詞で表すことは可能でしょうか？ 長文ですが宜しくお願いします。

“Hotel Rio” and “Way She Moves” are softer rockers with blues elements but they are nonetheless enthralling. With catchy choruses and 70s’ glam foundations, the early diversity of Blaster is pretty impressive. “Amethyst” is amped up and features more delicious guitar hooks from Brown and a later solo is spellbinding. “Hotel Rio” “Way She Moves” “Amethyst”は曲の名前であり、「Blaster」はアルバムの名前であり、「 Brown」 はギタリストの名前です。

アメリカ人のtoast(トースト？)はどういう乾杯の音頭を取るんですか？ 「 パーティーや友人を招いての食事の際には、乾杯する際に何か一言いうのが普通です（日本もそうでしょう？）。日本だと代表者が一人だけ何かを言って乾杯が多いですが、アメリカでは数人が言うこともあります。この「一言」というのを英語では「toast」と言います。 」 アメリカ人のtoast(トースト？)はどういう乾杯の音頭を取るんですか？ トーストであってますか？ トーストってどういう意味ですか？

“I had so much fun. I actually still get to play with those guys every once in awhile, I have a deep deep love. The only reason why I’m not doing it now is my kids, they would cry every time I would go on the road with STP. When I leave on tour with Linkin Park, they’re like, ‘Okay, we’ll see you when you get back.’ They understand what I’m doing, but when I would leave with STP they would cry. I started realizing, I think they thought I was choosing to do that over being at home with them, because I would be done with Linkin Park and coming home. It was just too hard on my family, so I basically was like, you know what, I’ve got to stop being selfish here. When I’m not doing Linkin Park, I’ve got to be home with my babies.”

下記(ダイヤ)︎のビジネス上の英文メールについて、おかしな箇所や丁寧にした方が良い部分がありましたら訂正をお願いいたしますm(_ _)m (背景:取引先企業へ紹介した派遣社員が就業予定でしたが、前日に先方が開始日を後ろ倒しにしたことによりそれを伝えたら不信感を抱ききっぱり辞退…) ↑上記を英語で上手く先方に伝えたいのですが、丁寧なニュアンスなどが難しく自信がありません。 (ダイヤ)︎We apologize to inform you that he informed us he refused this work at your company yesterday. Because he had a sense of uncertainty about this schedule change. We repeated to try to reason with him, but we didn't change her thought. We sincerely sorry this. We now tried to introduce new candidate for this position. Best regards,

“I’ve seen Stone Temple Pilots play probably about 30 times, a huge influence on me. They really made music that I absolutely loved, and I still love to this day. So the chance to go out and perform those songs with those guys was very cool. Honestly, Robert DeLeo, Dean DeLeo, and Eric Kretz, those guys are super talented. I’ve had the privilege of not only being in Linkin Park and being around a bunch of geniuses, I got to go and be in Stone Temple Pilots and be around a bunch of geniuses, and just kind of sit back and kind of ask myself, ‘How did I get here?’”

TOTO のGeorgy Porgy の歌詞について教えてください。 It's not your situation, I just need contemplation over you I'm not so systematic, it's just that I'm an addict for your love Not the only one that holds you, I never ever should have told you You're my only girl I'm not the only one that holds you, I never ever should have told you You're my only world Just think how long I've known you, it's long for me to own you, lock and key It's really not confusing, I'm just the young illusion, can't you see ・２段目、冒頭にI'm がなくて後半にはありますが、どう解釈するのでしょうか？ ただのリズム取りですか？ ・３段目、考えてごらん？ なのか、（僕が）ちょうど考えてた、なのか。 ・it's long for me to own you, lock and keyはどういう意味でしょうか？ ・young illusion はどういう意味でしょうか？ で、遊び相手を捨てようとしているひどい男の歌だと解釈してるんですが、合ってますか？ どうぞよろしくお願いします。

アメリカ人の標準的な家庭の夕飯は21:00の午後9時が一般的だそうですが、日本人の夕飯の一般的な時間は19:00の午後7時ですよね。 アメリカ人って昼食を12:00に食べて、午後9時まで空けるのは何か医学的な根拠があるんでしょうか？ 日本人の感覚では無茶苦茶お腹空いてお腹がグーグー鳴ってると思います。 その2、3時間後に寝たら、そりゃ肥満者が大量に出て当たり前だと思う。 なぜ午後9時に食べるようになったんですか？ 子供もですか？ アメリカはテーブルの上で子供と一緒に祈ってから食べるのは映画だけで、実際のアメリカ人は子供と親の大人は食べる時間が違っていて先に子供だけが食べ終わってるのでしょうか？ 午後9時に夕飯を食べるメリットって何があるんですか？ お腹空きませんか？ イギリス人も午後9時に食べますか？ フランス人も午後9時に食べる？

1The music was complex and difficult, but challenging and fun to play. 2There is firece competition among international companies to increase market share. 3Meaningful progress has been made to narrow diffrences during the preparatory meetings. 1のchallenging and fun to playの部分の不定詞はどこを修飾しているのでしょうか？和訳に「演奏するやる気をそそって楽しかった。」とあるのですがいまいちい英語のまま掴めずにいるのですが説明して頂ければ幸いです。 ２to increase~はcompaniesをお修飾する不定詞用法との理解でよろしいでしょうか？ ３to narrow～以降が不定詞の形容詞用法でMeaningful progressを修飾すると棒サイトにあったのですが、明らかに副詞用法だと考えるのですがよろしいでしょうか？ 稚拙な質問ですが解説お願い致します。

Tactical developments The preliminary operation to capture Messines ridge (7–14 June) had been followed by a strategic pause as the British repaired their communications behind Messines ridge, completed the building of the infrastructure necessary for a much larger force in the Ypres area and moved troops and equipment north from the Arras front. After delays caused by local conditions, the Battles of Ypres had begun on 31 July with the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, which was a substantial local success for the British, taking a large amount of ground and inflicting many casualties on the German defenders. The German defence had nonetheless recovered some of the lost ground in the middle of the attack front and restricted the British advance on the Gheluvelt Plateau further south. British attacks had then been seriously hampered by unseasonal heavy rain during August and had not been able to retain much of the additional ground captured on the plateau on 10, 16–18, 22–24 and 27 August due to the determined German defence, mud and poor visibility. Sir Douglas Haig ordered artillery to be transferred from the southern flank of the Second Army and more artillery to be brought into Flanders from the armies further south, to increase the weight of the attack on the Gheluvelt Plateau. The principal role was changed from the Fifth to the Second Army and the boundary between the Second and Fifth armies was moved north towards the Ypres–Roulers railway, to narrow the frontages of the Second Army divisions on the Gheluvelt Plateau. A pause in British attacks was used to reorganise and to improve supply routes behind the front line, to carry forward 54,572 long tons (55,448 t) of ammunition above normal expenditure, guns were moved forward to new positions and the infantry and artillery reinforcements which arrived, practised for the next attack. The unseasonal rains stopped, the ground began to dry and the cessation of British attacks misled the Germans, who risked moving some units away from Flanders.

The Battle of Polygon Wood took place during the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres in World War I and was fought near Ypres in Belgium 26 September – 3 October 1917, in the area from the Menin Road to Polygon Wood and thence north, to the area beyond St Julien. Much of the woodland had been destroyed by the huge quantity of shellfire from both sides since 16 July and the area had changed hands several times. General Herbert Plumer continued the series of British general attacks with limited objectives. The British attacks were led by lines of skirmishers, followed by small infantry columns organised in depth, (a formation which had been adopted by the Fifth Army in August) with a vastly increased amount of artillery support, the infantry advancing behind five layers of creeping bombardment on the Second Army front. The advance was planned to cover 1,000–1,500 yd (910–1,370 m) and stop on reverse slopes which were easier to defend, enclosing ground which gave observation of German reinforcement routes and counter-attack assembly areas. Preparations were then made swiftly to defeat German counter-attacks, by mopping-up and consolidating the captured ground with defences in depth. The attack inflicted a severe blow on the German 4th Army, causing many losses, capturing a significant portion of the Flandern I Stellung, which threatened the German hold on Broodseinde ridge. The better weather continued to benefit the British attackers by drying the ground, raising mist which obscured British infantry attacks made around dawn, then clearing to reveal German Eingreif formations to air and ground observation, well in advance of their arrival on the battlefield. German defensive arrangements were changed hastily after the battle to try to counter British offensive superiority. The Battle of Polygon Wood ポリゴンの森の戦い

One thing I remember most vividly is, a couple of people got on at the end of the line, the bus was mostly empty. After a minute they say, "You know, there's a whole lot of blood back here." I walked back, and there's a pool of blood the likes of which I've never seen. A large pool of blood. Someone sat there, bled out, and walked off the bus. I was in shock this happened while I was driving. I called it in and was instructed to bring the bus to the yard. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43de9p/driving-a-city-bus-on-the-nightshift-is-the-worst-job-i-ever-loved called it inとはどのような意味でしょうか？よろしくお願いします

こんにちは、中３女子です。 私は英語を中１からやり直そうとして、英語復習ノートというのを作ったんですが・・・ イマイチどうまとめたらいいかわからず、ずっと放置したままなんです。 皆さんは英語ノートをどんな感じにまとめていますか？ ここは特にこんな風に工夫してるよ！というところとか教えてくださったら幸いです。

英語のサパー？とディナーだとどちらの方が豪華な夕飯になるんですか？ 両方とも日本語訳は晩餐と出てきて、両方とも高級そうです。 あと質素な夕飯は英語でなんと言うんですか？ まずはサパーとディナーはどちらが豪華な夕飯なのか違いを教えてください。 初めてですよ。サパーですかディナーですかって聞かれたの。 「 SupperではなくDinnerですね？　 それならここがお勧めてす。 」

カタカナで書くと似ていますが実際は発音は大きく異なるのでしょうか？

下記のビジネス上の英文メールについて、おかしな箇所や丁寧にした方が良い部分がありましたら訂正をお願いいたしますm(_ _)m (取引先企業から、派遣社員の就業開始日を28から29日へ変更してほしいと連絡があり、その返信英文です) Thank you for informing us about her start day. We informed her that start date changed from 28th to 29th. And she agreed this change. Thank you.

下記の英訳をしてみました。 「主語＋述語」ってすごいことだよね。 と言いたい時は、どうしたらよいでしょうか。 That's great that節～、付加疑問文？ もしくは、That's great thing that節～、付加疑問文？ は自然な英語でしょうか。 伝えたい文章を「That's great thing that節～、付加疑問文？」で作ってみました。 ご指摘あれば、おしえていただけませんでしょうか。 今年、出張であちこち飛び回っているのって、すごいことだよね That's great thing you fly all over the place on business this year,isn't that? ただ、病気やケガを心配しているよ I'm worried about illness or injury. あなたが帰ってくると、ホッとするの。 When you return, whew... I'm relieved.

１「（飲食店、病院等で）今は空いていますか？＝お客、外来患者が少ないという意味です」 ２A看護師とB外来患者の院内の会話で「B今日は人があまりいないね！？」「今日は空いているんですよ。」 ３飲食店で友人と「今日は混んでなくてよかったね。いつもこのレストランは混んでるからね。」