英語の長文に挑戦中ですが、英文の構造が把握できず困っています。
大まかな意味は分かりますし、それぞれの単語の意味は難しくなさそうなんですが、
ちゃんと和訳しようとすると上手くいきません。
動詞と思われる語、andやwhereが多いことで、
主語や修飾語が何にかかっているのかよく分かりません。
I hope that as my students go through life they will learn to get to
know the people who live and work around them and try to make people
who are just starting out at their job or where they live feel comfortable
and welcomed in their new surroundings.
「教え子に、これから生きていくうえで、人との繋がりを大切にしてほしい
という希望を持っている」というのが大筋の意味だと思うんですが、
和訳できる方、どうぞよろしくお願いします。
nothing could be further from the truth.
英英辞書によると、次のようにありました。
↓
used to emphasize that what somebody has said you are thinking is definitely not true
誰かが、あなたが思っているように言ったことが、完全に実際とは違うことを誇張するとき使われる。‥‥要するに、「たいした誤解だ」「見当ちがいもはなはだしい」ということですよね、と意味はとれるのですが‥‥。
what somebody has said と、you are thinkingのつながり、「誰かが言ったこと」と「思っていること」のつながり、文の構造がよくわかりません。whatに、2重に関係詞がかかっているのでしょうか？似た感じの例文があったら教えていだだけると理解しやすいと思います。どうぞよろしくお願いします。
A typical scene in the detective novel finds Dr. Watson, a loyal assistant, walking up the stairsーknowing, from the wild violin sounds he hears, that the great Sherlock Holmes's powers to solve problems are being severely tasted by the case he is working on. Holmes apparently trusted the processes worked together somehow, each helping the other in a way that the author of the stories hints at but doesn't attempt to define.
Einstein also found a way to aid his thinking through violin playing. He may not have been an especially skilled violinist, but that is clearly not important. “Whenever he left that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work,” his elder son has said, “he would engage in music, and that would usually resolve all his difficulties.”
Musical forms, beauty, and patterns took both these geniuses’ minds beyond conventional thinking into an advanced type of thought. In both cases their result-focused minds relaxed somehow, allowing their subconscious minds to guide themーand playing music provided this link between conscious and subconscious. In short, they solved real-world problems by losing themselves in music, specifically in the violin. I would guess that Einstein wasn't a cautious player, either. He attributed his scientific creativity directly to this quality of childlike curiosity. Einstein often said that his most famous theory was also inspired by music, its forms and relationships.
It seems that certain physical actions stimulate the brain, create connections, and speed up thought. We have all had the experience of being literally unable to sit still when we are trying to resolve something in our minds. We pace up and down or shake a leg, almost as if such involuntary motions were needed to move our thoughts forward. Sometimes the mind-body relationship works a bit differently: while taking a long walk or rowing a boat across the lake, just letting our thoughts drift, we suddenly receive from the subconscious, without effort, the solution to a problem that had been troubling us for weeks. I personally know that playing the piano has this effect; maybe it has something to do with both sides of the brain being stimulated by the independent movements of both hands In any case, I have to keep a notebook handy while practicing, because I tend to get the answers to all kinds of questions ranging from the insignificant (where I left the car keys) to the significant (my life goal for the next decade).
This mind-body unity is only one of the rewards to be found in making music, at any level, as an adult. Ironically, far too many adults who study music under the general category of “amateurs” are so modest in their expectations of mastering an instrument that these rewards turn out to be much less than what they might have been.
The paradox is that adult music learners, while they often have the lowest expectations, are in a uniquely excellent position to succeed. Many take up an instrument with warmhearted desire, love of music, leisure time and extra money to support the lessons. Even more importantly, they approach music with more maturity and intelligence. But how much can adults learn if they are constantly comparing themselves negatively to others (children, no less) and feeling guilty about every unmusical wrong note? Add to this the mistaken notion of practice as boring discipline, acceptance of the traditional “no-mistakes” approach to learning, and uncertainly that they have any real talent for music, and they soon find themselves in a state of semi-paralysis of body and mind.
Even the word amateur has conflicts of meaning. While it literally means “lover” in French, it can also carry the connotation of dabbler, a person who is somehow fated never to be very good. To describe someone's work as amateurish usually isn't a compliment. But amateur states can be joyousーembracing free choice, pure love of what one is doing, and endless possibilities for discovery.
A typical scene in the detective novel finds Dr. Watson, a loyal assistant, walking up the stairsーknowing, from the wild violin sounds he hears, that the great Sherlock Holmes's powers to solve problems are being severely tasted by the case he is working on. Holmes apparently trusted the processes worked together somehow, each helping the other in a way that the author of the stories hints at but doesn't attempt to define.
Einstein also found a way to aid his thinking through violin playing. He may not have been an especially skilled violinist, but that is clearly not important. “Whenever he left that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work,” his elder son has said, “he would engage in music, and that would usually resolve all his difficulties.”
Musical forms, beauty, and patterns took both these geniuses’ minds beyond conventional thinking into an advanced type of thought. In both cases their result-focused minds relaxed somehow, allowing their subconscious minds to guide themーand playing music provided this link between conscious and subconscious. In short, they solved real-world problems by losing themselves in music, specifically in the violin. I would guess that Einstein wasn't a cautious player, either. He attributed his scientific creativity directly to this quality of childlike curiosity. Einstein often said that his most famous theory was also inspired by music, its forms and relationships.
It seems that certain physical actions stimulate the brain, create connections, and speed up thought. We have all had the experience of being literally unable to sit still when we are trying to resolve something in our minds. We pace up and down or shake a leg, almost as if such involuntary motions were needed to move our thoughts forward. Sometimes the mind-body relationship works a bit differently: while taking a long walk or rowing a boat across the lake, just letting our thoughts drift, we suddenly receive from the subconscious, without effort, the solution to a problem that had been troubling us for weeks. I personally know that playing the piano has this effect; maybe it has something to do with both sides of the brain being stimulated by the independent movements of both hands In any case, I have to keep a notebook handy while practicing, because I tend to get the answers to all kinds of questions ranging from the insignificant (where I left the car keys) to the significant (my life goal for the next decade).
This mind-body unity is only one of the rewards to be found in making music, at any level, as an adult. Ironically, far too many adults who study music under the general category of “amateurs” are so modest in their expectations of mastering an instrument that these rewards turn out to be much less than what they might have been.
The paradox is that adult music learners, while they often have the lowest expectations, are in a uniquely excellent position to succeed. Many take up an instrument with warmhearted desire, love of music, leisure time and extra money to support the lessons. Even more importantly, they approach music with more maturity and intelligence. But how much can adults learn if they are constantly comparing themselves negatively to others (children, no less) and feeling guilty about every unmusical wrong note? Add to this the mistaken notion of practice as boring discipline, acceptance of the traditional “no-mistakes” approach to learning, and uncertainly that they have any real talent for music, and they soon find themselves in a state of semi-paralysis of body and mind.
Even the word amateur has conflicts of meaning. While it literally means “lover” in French, it can also carry the connotation of dabbler, a person who is somehow fated never to be very good. To describe someone's work as amateurish usually isn't a compliment. But amateur states can be joyousーembracing free choice, pure love of what one is doing, and endless possibilities for discovery.
A typical scene in the detective novel finds Dr. Watson, a loyal assistant, walking up the stairsーknowing, from the wild violin sounds he hears, that the great Sherlock Holmes's powers to solve problems are being severely tasted by the case he is working on. Holmes apparently trusted the processes worked together somehow, each helping the other in a way that the author of the stories hints at but doesn't attempt to define.
Einstein also found a way to aid his thinking through violin playing. He may not have been an especially skilled violinist, but that is clearly not important. “Whenever he left that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work,” his elder son has said, “he would engage in music, and that would usually resolve all his difficulties.”
Musical forms, beauty, and patterns took both these geniuses’ minds beyond conventional thinking into an advanced type of thought. In both cases their result-focused minds relaxed somehow, allowing their subconscious minds to guide themーand playing music provided this link between conscious and subconscious. In short, they solved real-world problems by losing themselves in music, specifically in the violin. I would guess that Einstein wasn't a cautious player, either. He attributed his scientific creativity directly to this quality of childlike curiosity. Einstein often said that his most famous theory was also inspired by music, its forms and relationships.
It seems that certain physical actions stimulate the brain, create connections, and speed up thought. We have all had the experience of being literally unable to sit still when we are trying to resolve something in our minds. We pace up and down or shake a leg, almost as if such involuntary motions were needed to move our thoughts forward. Sometimes the mind-body relationship works a bit differently: while taking a long walk or rowing a boat across the lake, just letting our thoughts drift, we suddenly receive from the subconscious, without effort, the solution to a problem that had been troubling us for weeks. I personally know that playing the piano has this effect; maybe it has something to do with both sides of the brain being stimulated by the independent movements of both hands In any case, I have to keep a notebook handy while practicing, because I tend to get the answers to all kinds of questions ranging from the insignificant (where I left the car keys) to the significant (my life goal for the next decade).
This mind-body unity is only one of the rewards to be found in making music, at any level, as an adult. Ironically, far too many adults who study music under the general category of “amateurs” are so modest in their expectations of mastering an instrument that these rewards turn out to be much less than what they might have been.
The paradox is that adult music learners, while they often have the lowest expectations, are in a uniquely excellent position to succeed. Many take up an instrument with warmhearted desire, love of music, leisure time and extra money to support the lessons. Even more importantly, they approach music with more maturity and intelligence. But how much can adults learn if they are constantly comparing themselves negatively to others (children, no less) and feeling guilty about every unmusical wrong note? Add to this the mistaken notion of practice as boring discipline, acceptance of the traditional “no-mistakes” approach to learning, and uncertainly that they have any real talent for music, and they soon find themselves in a state of semi-paralysis of body and mind.
Even the word amateur has conflicts of meaning. While it literally means “lover” in French, it can also carry the connotation of dabbler, a person who is somehow fated never to be very good. To describe someone's work as amateurish usually isn't a compliment. But amateur states can be joyousーembracing free choice, pure love of what one is doing, and endless possibilities for discovery.
West of the Rockies line one of the most exiting cities in Canada,Vancouver.Crowds come out at night to sample the fun and temptation of its night life.But the lights of the night give way to sunrise,as the morning warmth blankets the mountains surrounding the city.Vancouver probably has the mildest climate in all of Canada thanks tn the influence of the Japanese Current,a submarine river of warm water that flows just offshore.That may help explain why Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia,and the third largest in Canada.On the other hand,it may be the setting.Poised at the edge of the Pacific with forested mountains in the background,the city takes full advantage of all its possibilities.“l’ve been living here for two and a half years and the parts l like about it are the weather,the people,the business that is going on here.The climate is fantastic,you can sail one part of the morning and then ski for the afternoon and then,you know,be out partying and having a good time in the night.So it’s a lot of fun.”And of course Grous Mountain and its skiing are only fifteen minutes from downtown.With one thousand acres of sun-filled gardens and cool,dark forests,Stanley Park is the largest Park in Vancouver.Accessibility for everyone makes a beautiful day all the more special. Even a stroll along the seawall can provide a good chance of seeing seagulls migratory ducks,or a great blue heron.Tucked into a corner of Stanley Park is the Vancouver Aquarium.More than 9,000 aquatic animals call the Aquarium home, including beluga and killer whales. Under the Granville Bridge is the Granville Market,a huge public market overflowing with the bounty that comes from the combination of rich soil and a beneficent climate. All the best of the West Coast is sold in its season.The challenge is choosing!
全然わからなくて(;_;)
お願いいたします...
下記の英文の最後のus none the wiserの部分ではどのような語句が省略されているのでしょうか。
The cloth King Edward had sent home with me was quickly turned into a wedding gown by my mother's dressmakers. For a week I was measured and draped and prodded and turned and remarked upon. It was beautiful cloth and I should have been happy, but I wasn't. I was miserable with worry about Edward. He could, at any given moment, be dead, and we would never know it. So
I went about my days knowing that while I ate, or studied, or was measured for that fool gown, Edward might be lying dead in the palace, and us none the wiser.
また、I went about my days knowing～はどのように解釈したらよいでしょうか。go about my daysで何かの熟語でknowingは分詞構文なのか、もしくはmy daysは副詞でgo about ～ingと考えたらよいのでしょうか。
お手数かけますが、ご教授いただければ幸いです。なにとぞよろしくお願いいたします。
いつもお世話になっております。
早速ですが、質問です。
下記文章があります。
-----
A Library will be closed for renovations from May 1 to May 10, _____ which time the collection will not be open to the public.
-----
選択肢：
・with、・while、・during、・between
正解は「during」になっていますが、「while」では駄目なのでしょうか。むしろ「while」が正解ではないかと思ったのですが…（空欄の後ろは節ではないのですか？）
お分かりの方、回答、宜しくお願いします。
On the east side of the Continental Divide high in the Canadian Rockies,lies one of Alberta's natural jewels,Banff National Park.Canada's first national park,Banff is also the most popular.It adjoins Jasper,kootenay,and Yoho National Parks,the four together forming the largest mountain park land in the world.Three different ecosystems within the the parks range from arctic to forest to prairieーand all support a rich population of animals. Amid the towering crags of the Canadian Rockies,the Banff Spring Hotel stands in all its glorious splendor.Its turrets and towers add a note of grand romance to the magnificence of the mountains. Chateau Lake Louise in Banff National Park is another example of the luxurious Canadian chateau styke.In the summer,the waters of Lake Louise shimmer emeraldーgreen.Mountain trails wind upward to alpine meadows where deer graze silently on wildflowers.In the winter,wellーgroomed slopes provide superior skiing.Lake Louise has 44 designated runs to offer with 44,000 skiable acres of terrain.
翻訳サイトではわかりづらかったので質問しました。
almoner？ がこちらのプリントのミスなのか辞書でもでてきませんでした。
誤字はないと思います。
For most of his life he had worked as a commercial artist. "I did a bit of tickling" delicate lettering and design for advertising blocks. In his late sixties he experienced long spells of illness. When he was able to work he went as bottlewasher to a dairy. He was obliged to gibe up work finally because of ill-health and growing infirmity at the age of seventy-two. Since the death of his wife his social activities had contracted. He did not get up for long and rarely went out, except at week-ends for his pension and his shopping. Even his visits to an infirm brother living some miles away had fallen off. "I used to go over and see him every Tuesday night last year up to that fog we had in November. Then I just lay on my bed coughing my and coughing. Coughing all day and night, thinking my time had come. But it wasn't to be."
He regretted not having children, especially a daughter, who "might have stood by me when I got old", and he had no nephews or nieces living in London. The neighbours saw little of him. Next door was "Mrs Lipstick and Powder, that's what I calls her, always going out." On the other side was "Mrs Fly-by-night. She rushes past me on the stairs now, like some of the others, without asking how I am. Not that I mind. But they used to do it and since I came out of hospital and go around just like a decrepit old man decrepit, yes - I suppose they don't like to ask how I am in case they feel they should do something. But there - life's like that, isn't it?"
He had lost touch with all his friends and did not approve of old people's clubs. "They're all clicks of decrepit old people." His opinion of national assistance officials, doctors, almoners, and nurses was favourable, except that sometimes they "kept you in the dark" or "treated you like a little child". He had refused offers of a home help, mainly, it appeared, from a sense of privacy, shame of his home, misunderstanding about payment, and suspicion of the sort of woman who would come. His memories of contacts with doctors and hospitals were extremely vivid and he recalled at length some of his experiences. He talked about an almoner who was "a lovely looking party", about his new dentures, "I don't wear the top, it's more comfortable', and with pride about his one perfect faculty, his eyesight. On occasions when he could scarcely walk it never occurred to him to ask his doctor to visit him; he preferred to make painful journeys to the surgery.
翻訳サイトではわかりづらかったので質問しました。
almoner？ がこちらのプリントのミスなのか辞書でもでてきませんでした。
誤字はないと思います。
For most of his life he had worked as a commercial artist. "I did a bit of tickling" delicate lettering and design for advertising blocks. In his late sixties he experienced long spells of illness. When he was able to work he went as bottlewasher to a dairy. He was obliged to gibe up work finally because of ill-health and growing infirmity at the age of seventy-two. Since the death of his wife his social activities had contracted. He did not get up for long and rarely went out, except at week-ends for his pension and his shopping. Even his visits to an infirm brother living some miles away had fallen off. "I used to go over and see him every Tuesday night last year up to that fog we had in November. Then I just lay on my bed coughing my and coughing. Coughing all day and night, thinking my time had come. But it wasn't to be."
He regretted not having children, especially a daughter, who "might have stood by me when I got old", and he had no nephews or nieces living in London. The neighbours saw little of him. Next door was "Mrs Lipstick and Powder, that's what I calls her, always going out." On the other side was "Mrs Fly-by-night. She rushes past me on the stairs now, like some of the others, without asking how I am. Not that I mind. But they used to do it and since I came out of hospital and go around just like a decrepit old man decrepit, yes - I suppose they don't like to ask how I am in case they feel they should do something. But there - life's like that, isn't it?"
He had lost touch with all his friends and did not approve of old people's clubs. "They're all clicks of decrepit old people." His opinion of national assistance officials, doctors, almoners, and nurses was favourable, except that sometimes they "kept you in the dark" or "treated you like a little child". He had refused offers of a home help, mainly, it appeared, from a sense of privacy, shame of his home, misunderstanding about payment, and suspicion of the sort of woman who would come. His memories of contacts with doctors and hospitals were extremely vivid and he recalled at length some of his experiences. He talked about an almoner who was "a lovely looking party", about his new dentures, "I don't wear the top, it's more comfortable', and with pride about his one perfect faculty, his eyesight. On occasions when he could scarcely walk it never occurred to him to ask his doctor to visit him; he preferred to make painful journeys to the surgery.
The team’s next step is to train their computer decoder to recognize consonants so that patients can from whole words, and even sentences.
They also hope that with developments in technology, they can implant more electrodes in their next patient to transmit a more detailed signal.
また、1つ目の文のso that patients can ～のcanのかかる動詞はなんなんですか？
よろしくお願いします＾＾；
Mike: Your memory isn't working. Have you forgotten when we used to hunt together in the back
streets?
Friend: You mean when we used to get up on the garage roof with some bricks and when the rats came out , we'd get them?
Mike: Yes , we used to spend many a sporting evening that way.
Friend: But you can't say something like that was hunting.
Mike: Why not? And to our shame , we didn't even take them for food or their skins for clothes. We only did it to enjoy ourselves. As I remember , with your keen eye and strong arm , you were very successful.
Friend: But they were only rats. And everybody knows that rats are no good. That's why when you're mad at somebody , you call him a dirty rat. You don't call him a dirty duck or a dirty bunny.
Mike: True , a rat is a rodent , but so are the rabbit and many other cute little animals. So it is possible that you killed a 44th cousin of Mickey Mouse or even Bugs Bunny.
Friend: Maybe so , but I'm not going to apologize for killing them , the dirty rats.
Mike: How heartless! Some of them may have been loving mama rats , or caring daddy rats. Think of how many of their little ones you have made orphans and the childhood trauma they suffered.
Friend: You're using the old trick of mixing apples and oranges. I'm talking about fur coats.
The team’s next step is to train their computer decoder to recognize consonants so that patients can from whole words, and even sentences.
They also hope that with developments in technology, they can implant more electrodes in their next patient to transmit a more detailed signal.
また、1つ目の文のso that patients can ～のcanのかかる動詞はなんなんですか？
お願いします。
When Ken and Yuki turned around ,they saw ( ).
1 each other faces 2 each other in the face
3 their faces 4 their faces each other
each other は名詞なので２か３ですか？
また1番はeach other's facesならOKですか。
おしえてください。
センター試験のリスニングについて質問があります。この年の問題のスクリプトが見つからなかったので質問させてもらいました。
２００９年の第一問の問５、問６を聞きとれた所を書いてみます。間違っていたらご指摘頂けると助かります。冠詞の聞きとりもれ等もご指摘いただけると助かります。
問５
Let's get in an alarm clock.
Yes, that white one looks really easy to read.
Black one is big hands, too?
OK. Let's order that one.
"hands" の意味がわからず、多分hands って言ってると思ったのですが・・。時計の針という意味で使っているんですか？？
問６
The sign says admission is 5 dollars each.
But since we are a group, we can save a dollar on each ticket.
We have 11 students and teachers are free.
Sounds good.
問題と音声は河合塾のサイトにあります。
http://kaisoku.kawai-juku.ac.jp/nyushi/center/09/index2.html
よろしくお願い致します。
Application is open to all eligible international students to all universities depending on the field one chooses to apply.
上記の文ですが、まず、日本語らしい訳をお願いしたいのが1つです。
もう1つですが、文節をどのように区切ると解りやすいかを教えてください。
たとえば、
Application is open /to all eligible international students /to all universities depending on the field one chooses /to apply.
のようにどこで、スラッシュを入れて区切ると良いかです。
また、関係代名詞やその他の接続詞など省略された文であるならば、何が省略されていて、
どこに何かを入れるとよりわかりやすいかも教えていただけると助かります。
toが3つもあって、少し混乱しています。
