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質問

The children of Altesa are not taken in, though, and know Lucia to be a witch, and they keep an eye open for her on Fridays, when she comes into town shopping. There is a sign to make to ward off her spells when she looks at you in a certain way. For the rest of the week, both she and the signora stay mostly out of sight.（前回の終わりの部分です）

Beyond them live Signor and Signora Brunelli, who have twin two-year-old girls. I think my mother likes the babies; she and Signora Brunelli sometimes have coffee in our front room and watch the twins crawl and toddle round the floor. The twins will both learn to talk very early, and their parents will be proud to have such intelligent babies.

The house at the end is the largest of the four. The new occupants are already talked about in the town before they arrive; the father is English, and though the mother is Italian, she comes from the north, from the city. In Altesa’s small-town world, this makes them as much foreigners as my family. There is a boy, too, I hear. The thought of another boy who is a foreigner intrigues me. In my head, I start to think what kind of boy he will be: whether he’ll be like me, slow and bad at reading; whether his father will work in the English bank in the city like mine; whether he will get in trouble sometimes like I do.

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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。（この英文は回想シーンだと思われます）

In Altesa’s small-town world, this makes them as much foreigners as my family.について、Altesaはイタリアの街のようなのですが、this makes themのthisが何を指しているのかがよくわかりません。父親がイギリス人で母親がイタリア人である、という事を指しているのでしょうか？themは新しい居住者たちのことですか？

教えてください。お願いします。

回答No.1

92128bwsd · ベストアンサー

this makes themのthisが何を指しているのかがよくわかりません。父親がイギリス人で母親がイタリア人である、という事を指しているのでしょうか？themは新しい居住者たちのことですか？

その考えで間違いありません。this はその前に説明している”事”。
つまり、" the father is English, and though the mother is Italian, she comes from the north, from the city. "

them も新しく引っ越してくる家族・居住者・occupantsのことです。

お礼

回答をいただいてありがとうございます！
ちゃんと読めていてよかったです。