Wang（中国系、Williams College卒業） Wang, the son of Chinese immigrants, had an SAT score of 2230 (out of a possible 2400) and a 4.67 weighted GPA when he was waitlisted, and then rejected, by Harvard and other Ivy League schools in 2013. He believes that was because of his race.
Diep （ロスで差別にあったベトナム人、両親は大学にいってない） His SAT score of 2060 out of 2400 was described in an alumni interview report as “on the lower end of the Harvard average,” but the interviewer also highlighted his “perfect grades” and gave him a high rating for personal qualities.
成績だけを考慮すればアジア系が４０％ Harvard data released as part of the lawsuit showed that admitted Asian-American students have a higher average SAT score and lower rate of admission than any other racial group. It also revealed that Asian-Americans would make up 43% of Harvard’s admitted class if only academics were considered.
Harvard has defended the importance of an admissions process that considers more than test scores and grades
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Reviewer are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried talents at one or at the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.
If a child tells a lie, tell him that he has told a lie, but don't call him a liar. If you define him as a liar, you break down his confidence in his own character.
What happens to us is very often more interesting in retrospect than when it actually happens. The same is true of some of the remarks which we hear. At the time they may seem commonpladce; after an interval of years they may acquire a new and unsuspecteda meaning.
There isn't much news to write. The childrens are well and miss you. Ronnie isn't doing too well at school, and I had him examined thoroughly ー eyes, ears, nose , everything ー but the doctors could fine nothing the matter with him. He just says he doesn't like school, so I suppose I'll have to work on him to make him like it. I've been reading books on the subject and one of them says that sometimes children who don't like school have secret frustrations and irritations at home but I know that can't be. Everything runs so smoothly here.
In the old days after a cocktail party they would be glad to go home alone, talk over the party with a few quiet drinks, raid the ice-box and go to bed, secure agains the world outside. Then one evening after a party something had happened - he had a black out and said or did something he could not remember and did not want to remember ; afterward there was only the smashed typewriter and shafts of shameful recollection that he could not face and the memory of her fearful eyes.
'I never wanted to be happy', said Waydelin: 'I wanted to live my own life and do my own work; and if I die tomorrow (as likely enough I may), I shall have done both things. My work satisfies me, and because of that, so does my wife.'
Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again a little while, and ye shall see me? Verily, verily I say unto you, That ye sahll weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
All Members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered.
There are two kinds of avaricious person - the bold, grasping type who will ruin you if he can, but who never looks twice at twopence, and the petty miser who has not the enterprise actually to make money, but who will always, as the saying goes, take a farthing from a dunghill with his teeth.
"There's something about a man who has fought for it - I don't know what it is - a look in his eye - the feel of his hand. He needn't have been successful - though he probably would be. I don't know. I'm not very good at this analysis stuff. I only know he- well, you haven't a mark on you. Not a mark. You quit being an architect, or whatever it was, because architecture was an uphill disheartening job at the time. I don't say that you should have kept on. For all I know you were a bum architect. But if you had kept on - if you had loved it enough to keep on - fighting, and struggling, and sticking it out - why, that fight would show in your face today - in your eyes and your jaw and your hands and in your way of standing and walking and sitting and talking. Listen. I'm not criticizing you. But you're all smooth... "
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It would be dangerous to drink two bottles of whisky and drive a car. It is very dangerous to cross a busy street before the light turns green. It is really pleasant to take a walk early in the morning, listening the birds sing. Most Japanese high school students go to a cram school to prepare for college entrance exams. When waiting for the elevator to come or the traffic light to change, most Japanese people become irritated in only thirty seconds. An elderly woman sitting next to me on the train asked me where I was going. Tom told us that we should rent a car to get around the city because the public transportation was inconvenient. Everyone should be free to decide when to get married and whether to have children. It is impossible to predict where and when there will be a major earthquake. Tom insisted that everything would be all right, but I couldn’t help feeling worried. It never occurred to me that my remark might hurt her feelings. Tom dinner is ready. OK, Mom. I’m coming I’ll call you when I get to Narita Airport. If you take the train to Tokyo Disneyland from here, you have to change three times. I’ve decided to look for a job abroad when I graduate from college. This dryer doesn’t work. Something seems to be wrong with it. The best thing about my stay with an American family was that the parents treated me just like their daughter. I lived in Canada for three years when I was in my teens because my father was transferred there. The Internet is widely used, so sales of personal computers have been rapidly increasing over the last few years. I’ve often heard Tom boast that he is very good at swimming, but I’ve never seen him swim. It has been only a week since I began a part-time job at a convenience store, but I’m already used to it. When I got on the train this morning, I couldn’t find an empty seat. I’m not wearing glasses now, so I can’t make out what the sign says. Less than twenty hours after I return to my hometown, without realizing it, I start to talk in the local dialect. Humans learn to express what they think by the age of five or six
Thanks to the map you drew me the other day, I managed to get here without getting lost. Last summer I took two weeks off, and went on a trip to Europe with my wife. Bob had changed a lot, so when I saw him at a class reunion, I didn’t recognize him. When I visited my hometown for the first time in twenty years, I found that it was no longer what it used to be. I stayed up till four last night preparing for the math lessen, so I feel very sleepy.
I’ve finished reading the novel I borrowed from the library yesterday, so now I have nothing to do. If you had taken this medicine and stayed in bed, you would probably have got well in two or three days. The teacher says that we should wait here for a while because if we left now, we might get caught in a thunderstorm on the way. People wish they could live forever and never become older. However, if this wish came true, there would be too many people on the earth. Ann looks happy. Something good must have happened to her. If you have been to old European cities, you must have been impressed by the beautiful streets. Without fossil fuels such as oil and coal, the history of the 20th century would have been completely different. Some students coming to the library act as if they are in a coffee shop. When I was a child, I often wished my house was a little larger. I’d like to work as a volunteer helping victims of natural disasters, such as floods or earthquakes.
Tom has nice drums, and he never lets anyone else play them. At first I thought Tom was joking, but later I realized he was serious. Last Sunday I tried making some Italian food for the first time, and it was delicious. Some people say that they don’t like summer because it is so hot that they don’t feel like doing anything. However, I like the heat of summer because I can swim in the sea. James came to Japan eight years ago not only because he wanted to visit temples, but also because he had a Japanese girlfriend. I am against human cloning. That is because it could cause duplication of dictators. The graph shows that in Japan the birthrate has been decreasing since 1985. This decrease is partly because it costs a lot of money to raise children. I apologized to Ann for being late, but she didn’t forgive me. During the math class, my cell phone began to ring, and the teacher severely scolded me. I regretted that I hadn’t turned it off. I’m so busy doing the housework every day that I have no time to see a movie.
This wooden desk is too heavy for me to carry upstairs alone. While traveling in Europe, I was disappointed that wherever I went, there were many Japanese tourists. I was very happy when I saw my mother going to work wearing the earrings I had bought her. If you expect that schools teach only academic subjects, then this proves that you don’t understand what schools are for. Most Japanese people spend most of their time working to live. Japanese people usually express their feelings as indirectly as possible so that they won’t offend others. Whether a college is good or bad depends not only on how many books its library has and how good they are. It also depends on how intelligent its teachers and students are. The increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is closely connected with global warming. The more modern civilization advances, the longer we are forced to stay up at night, and the less sleep we get. Doctors and teachers are alike in that both of them deal not with things but with people. Professional baseball is far more exciting at a stadium than on TV. This motorbike is about twice as expensive in U.K. as in Japan. Just because young people read less than they used to, it doesn’t always follow that they are less eager to learn. Frankly speaking, the entrance exams I took yesterday were far more difficult than I had expected. A lot of people have personal computers, but very few of them know how to use them effectively. A lot of housewives complain that prices are too high. In some countries people have too much food, while in others tens of thousands of children are starving. Don’t forget to turn off the air conditioner before you go to bed, or you’ll catch a cold. There is a saying that a cold can cause a variety of diseases. Take care not to catch a cold. On the Internet, you can exchange thoughts and ideas with people all over the world, regardless of their age, sex, or nationality. However much exercise you get, you won’t lose weight unless you count your calories. Although you believe you know a word, you may learn something new if you look it up in the dictionary. Some Japanese tourists lack common sense and carry a lot of cash in their backpockets. In order to stay healthy, you should have a balanced diet and get regular exercise. If you live in a developing country for a while, you have an opportunity to look at Japan from a different point of view.
It is not until you go abroad that you realize how many neon lights there are in big Japanese cities. It is a pity that many Japanese people mistakenly believe that they have only to speak English to be internationally-minded. It is surprising that many Americans don’t care how you pronounce English as long as they can understand what you are trying to say. The best things you can do to protect nature are to reduce garbage and to use environmentally friendly products. It is said that seven out of ten Japanese people don’t believe in religion. Ways of greeting vary from country to country. In Japan, bowing is more common than shaking hands. Hamamatsu is located east of Lake Hamana, which is famous for its beautiful scenery and delicious fish. Quite a few elderly women look down on their husbands, who cannot do anything by themselves and ask too much of them. The movie theater is about twenty minutes’ walk from here, but it takes only five minutes to get there by subway. It cost ten thousand yen to have this bike repaired. There are four people in my family. Our apartment is on the fifth floor of this building. The tendency for young people to believe everything that is printed is nothing new. When I was studying in Paris, a famous painter bought me a meal at a first-class restaurant. Tom finally realized his dream of becoming astronaut, but at the expense of many other things. If city life gives you stress and fatigue, it is best to relax in the mountains or on beaches in order to relieve them. In Japan, women have difficulty getting promoted or returning to their jobs after giving birth and raising their children. In the U.S. , parents drive their children everywhere until they are old enough to get a driver’s license. What do you think of our new teacher? There is something about her that attracts me. People who don’t feel guilty about occupying two seats on a crowded train really make me angry. Everyone is born with a talent. The question is whether they can find it or not. When I left the office for lunch, I ran into an old friend from high school. This music is worth listening to over and over again. I recommend it. Teeth play an important part in your health. If you want to stay healthy, you should brush your teeth after every meal. Bear in mind that if you have enthusiasm, you can succeed in anything.
What might we not give to hear the voice of Socrats or Shakepeare or Lincoln? I have always been ill at ease in my father's company. She is an exciting singer. Tom was irritating, when all other students eagerly listened to my talk. We must ignore many popular perception of old age. It is thinking that makes what we read ours. Don't leave your things unattended. I couldn't agree more. Perhaps he is dead now. It is the truth that counts. The waitress brought me a pear when I asked for an apple. The picture will give you a good idea of how the flood is. The bomb hit the wrong building. Some things had better be left unsaid. There are more things in life than are dreamt of in your philosophy. I suspect that she is kind at heart. She wondered if she had better go at once. I didn't want to become a nurse, but Dad told me so, and in those days you did what you were told. No one fails to be impressed by these teachers' devotion. The ideal society would enable every man and woman to make the most of their inborn abilities. God knows that he is honest. God knows where she went. She is a very good pianist, you know. He is one of the best pianists in Japan, as you know. She may be a good woman for all I know. That girl over there is forty years old, if a day. The rest is silence. My dear Watson, you've made the same mistake again! Wuthering Heights is a kind of sport. There are so many people in the world that the action of an individual can be of no importance.
What might we not give to hear the voice of Socrates or Shakespeare or Lincoln? I have always been ill at ease in my father’s company. She is an exciting singer. Tom was irritating, when all other students eagerly listened to my talk. We must ignore many popular perception of old age. It is thinking that makes what we read ours. Don’t leave your things unattended. I couldn’t agree more. Perhaps he is dead now. It is the truth that counts. The waitress brought me a pear when I asked for an apple. The picture will give you a good idea of how the flood is. The bomb hit the wrong building. Some things had better be left unsaid. There are more things in life than are dreamt of in your philosophy. I suspect that she is kind at heart. She wondered if she had better go at once. I didn’t want to become a nurse, but Dad told me so, and in those days you did what you were told. No one fails to be impressed by these teachers’ devotion. The ideal society would enable every man and woman to make the most of their inborn abilities. God knows that he is honest. God knows where she went. She is a very good pianist, you know. He is one of the best pianists in Japan, as you know. She may be a good woman for all I know. That girl over there is forty years old,if a day. The rest is silence. My dear Watson, you’ve made the same mistake again! Wuthering Heights is a kind of sport. There are so many people in the world that the action of an individual can be of no importance.
What might we not give to hear the voice of Socrates or Shakespeare or Lincoln? I have always been ill at ease in my father’s company. She is an exciting singer. Tom was irritating, when all other students eagerly listened to my talk. We must ignore many popular perception of old age. It is thinking that makes what we read ours. Don’t leave your things unattended. I couldn’t agree more. Perhaps he is dead now. It is the truth that counts. The waitress brought me a pear when I asked for an apple. The picture will give you a good idea of how the flood is. The bomb hit the wrong building. Some things had better be left unsaid. There are more things in life than are dreamt of in your philosophy. I suspect that she is kind at heart. She wondered if she had better go at once. I didn’t want to become a nurse, but Dad told me so, and in those days you did what you were told. No one fails to be impressed by these teachers’ devotion. The ideal society would enable every man and woman to make the most of their inborn abilities. God knows that he is honest. God knows where she went. She is a good pianist, you know. He is one of the good pianists in Japan, as you know. She may be a good woman for all I know. That girl over there is forty years old, if a day. The rest is silence. My dear Watson, you’ve made the same mistake again! Wuthering Heights is a kind of sport. There are so many people in the world that the action of an individual can be of no importance.
For the most wild, yet homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unberthen my soul. (Edgar Appan Poe, The Black Cat)
Just as the destruction by fire of his papers was complete, Newton opened the chamber door, and perceived that the labours of twenty years were reduced to a heap of ashes. There stood little Diamond, the author of all the mischief. Almost any other man would have sentenced the dog to immediate death. But Newton patted the dog on the head with his usual kindness, although grief was at his heart. "O Dimond, Dimand," exclaimed he, "thous little knowest the mischief thou hast done!"
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 解釈につよくなるための英文５０（行方昭夫）
Perhaps the most obvious way in which birds differ from men in their behavior is that they can do all that they have to do, including some quite complicated things, without ever being taught. Flying, to start with, is an activity which, for all its astonishing complexity of balance and aeronautical adjustment, comes untaught to birds. Young birds very frequently make their first flight when their parents are out of sight. Practice of course makes perfect and puts a polish on the somewhat awkward first performance; but there is no elaborate learning needed as with our learning of golf or tennis or figure skating.
Julian Huxley, The Intelligence of Birds 解釈につよくなるための英文５０（行方昭夫）
That all men are equal is an assertiion to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given assent. A man who has to undergo a dangerous operation does not act on the supposition that one doctor is just as good as another. And when they require Civil Servants, even the most democratic governments take a careful selection among their theoretically equal subjects. At ordinary times, then, we are perfectly certain that men are not equal. But when, in a democratic country, we think or act politically we are no less certain that me are equal.
What might we not give to hear the voice of Socrates or Shakespeare or Lincoln? I have always been ill at ease in my father’s company. She is an exciting singer. Tom was irritating, when all other students eagerly listened to my talk. We must ignore many popular perception of old age. It is thinking that makes what we read ours. Don’t leave your things unattended. I couldn’t agree more. Perhaps he is dead now. It is the truth that counts. The waitress brought me a pear when I asked for an apple. The picture will give you a good idea of how the flood is. The bomb hit the wrong building. Some things had better be left unsaid. There are more things in life than are dreamt of in your philosophy. I suspect that she is kind at heart. She wondered if she had better go at once. I didn’t want to become a nurse, but Dad told me so, and in those days you did what you were told. No one fails to be impressed by these teachers’ devotion. The ideal society would enable every man and woman to make the most of their inborn abilities. God knows that he is honest. God knows where she went. She is a good pianist, you know. He is one of the good pianists in Japan, as you know. She may be a good woman for all I know. That girl over there is forty years old, if a day. The rest is silence. My dear Watson, you’ve made the same mistake again! Wuthering Heights is a kind of sport. There are so many people in the world that the action of an individual can be of no importance.
For the most wild, yet homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would unberthen my soul. (Edgar Appan Poe, The Black Cat)
Just as the destruction by fire of his papers was complete, Newton opened the chamber door, and perceived that the labours of twenty years were reduced to a heap of ashes. There stood little Diamond, the author of all the mischief. Almost any other man would have sentenced the dog to immediate death. But Newton patted the dog on the head with his usual kindness, although grief was at his heart. "O Dimond, Dimand," exclaimed he, "thous little knowest the mischief thou hast done!"
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." He didn't say any more, but we've always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 解釈につよくなるための英文５０（行方昭夫）
Perhaps the most obvious way in which birds differ from men in their behavior is that they can do all that they have to do, including some quite complicated things, without ever being taught. Flying, to start with, is an activity which, for all its astonishing complexity of balance and aeronautical adjustment, comes untaught to birds. Young birds very frequently make their first flight when their parents are out of sight. Practice of course makes perfect and puts a polish on the somewhat awkward first performance; but there is no elaborate learning needed as with our learning of golf or tennis or figure skating.
Julian Huxley, The Intelligence of Birds 解釈につよくなるための英文５０（行方昭夫）
That all men are equal is an assertiion to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given assent. A man who has to undergo a dangerous operation does not act on the supposition that one doctor is just as good as another. And when they require Civil Servants, even the most democratic governments take a careful selection among their theoretically equal subjects. At ordinary times, then, we are perfectly certain that men are not equal. But when, in a democratic country, we think or act politically we are no less certain that me are equal.
Foolishly arrogant as I was, I used to judge the worth of a person by the intellectual power and attainment. I could see no good where there was no logic, no charm where there was no learning. Now I think that one has to dinsinguish between two forms of intelligence, that of the brain, and that of the heart, and I have come to regard the second by far the more important.
Here are a couple of generalization about England that would be accepted by almost all observers. One is that the English are not gifted artistically. They are not as musical as the German or Italians, painting and sculpture have never flourished in England as they have in France. Another is that, as European go, the English are not intellectual. They have a horror of abstract thought, they feel no need for any philosophy or systematic "world-view."
Some people say that their schooldays were the happiest of their lives. They may be right; but I always look with suspicion upon thouse whom I hear saying this. It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable.
It is odd that 'Mondayish' is the only word which the days of the week have given us: since; Monday is not alone in possessing a positive and peculiar character. Why not 'Tuesdayish' or 'Wednesdayish' Each word would convey as much meaning to me, 'Tuesdayish' in particular, for Monday's cardinal and reprehensible error of beginning the business week seems to me almost a virtue compared with Tuesday's utter flatness. To begin a new week is no fault at all, though tradition has branded it as one. To begin is a noble accomplishment; but to continue dully, to be the tame follower of a courageous beginner, to be the second day in a weekof action, as in Tuesday's case - that is deplorable, if you like
Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others. I knew a man who had a story about a gun, which he thought a good one and that he told it very well. He tried all means in the world to turn the conversation upon guns; but, if he failed in his attempt, he started in his chair, and said he heard a gun fired; but when the company assured him they hear no such thing, he answered, perhaps then I was mistaken; but however, since we are talking of guns, - and then told his story, to the great indignation of the company.
Our companion and playmate in those says was a dog, whose portrait has never faded from remembrance, for he was a dog with feattures and a personality which impressed themselves deeply on the mind. He came to us in a rather mysterious manner. One summer evening the shepherd was galloping round the flock and trying by means of much shouting to induce the lazy sheep to move homewards. A strange-looking lame dog suddenly appeared on the scene, as if it had dropped from the clouds and limping briskly after the astonished and frightened sheep, drove them straight home and into the fold; and after thus earning his supper and showing what stuff was in him, he established himself at the house, where he was well received.
One day Father suddenly remembered an intention of his to have us taught music. There were numerous othere things that he felt every boy ought to learn, such as swimming, blacking his own shoes, to say nothing of school work in which he expected a boy to excel, He now recalled that music, too should be included to our education. He held that all children should be taught to any rate., there is a great deal to be said for his program. On the other hand, there are children and dhildren I had no ear for music.
Owing to the productivity of machines, much less work than was formerly necessary is now needed to maintain a tolerable standard of comfort in the human race. Some careful writers maintain that one hour’s work a day would suffice but perhaps this estimate does not take sufficient account of Asia. I shall assume, in order to be quite sure of being on the safe side, that four hour’s work a day on the part of all adults would suffice to produce as much material comfort as reasonable people ought to desire.
A stout old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in Petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for foot-passengers, but she replied: "I'm going to walk where I like. We've got the liberty now." It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the foot-passenger to walk down the middle of the road it also entitled the cab-driver to drive on the pavement, and that the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everybody would be getting in everybody else's way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy.
14 As of all other good things, one can have too much even of reading. Indulged in to excess, reading becomes a vice ―a vice all the more dangerous for not being recognized as such. Yes excessive reading is the only form of self-indulgence which fails to get the blame it deserves.
15 On arriving at Liverpool, I made the acquaintance of a man who had been in America Some years previously, and not having his hopes realized at that time, had returned desperate to England, taken in a fresh cargo of hopes, and was now making a second attempt with as much enthusiasm, if not more, than others in making their first.
16 The advantage of living abroad is that, coming in contact with the manners and customs of the people among whom you live, you observe them from the outside and see they have not the necessity which those who practice them believe. You cannot fail to discover that the belief which to you are self-evident to the foreigner are absurd. The year in Germany, the long stay in Paris, had prepared Philip to receive the skeptical teaching which came to him now with such a feeling of relief. He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil: things were merely adapted to an end.
18 I have often noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call him up the moment you come in, and it’s important, the matter is more often important to him than to you. When it comes to making you a present or doing you a favour most people are able to hold their impatience within reasonable bounds.
19 From my fifteenth year―save for a single interval―I have lived about as solitary a life as a modern man can have. I mean by this that the number of hours, days, months, and years that I have spent alone has been immense and extraordinary. I propose, therefore, to describe the experience of human loneliness exactly as I have known it. The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
20 One day a good fortune befell him, for he hit upon The Thousand Nights and a Night. He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read the stories that dealt with magic , and then the others; and those he liked he read again and again. He could think of nothing else. Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world , the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
21 It is when Parliament is not sitting that the papers are most interesting to read. I have found an item of news today which would never have been given publicity in the busy times, and it has moved me strangely. Here it s, backed by the authority of Dr. C, Mitchell. “The caterpillar of the puss-moth, not satisfied with Nature’s provisions for its safety, makes faces at young birds, and is said to alarm them considerably.” I like that “is said to.” was alarmed, and would explain that he was only going away because he Suddenly remembered that he had an engagement on the croquet lawn, or that he had Forgotten an umbrella. But whether he alarms them or not, the fact remains that the caterpillar of the puss-moth does make faces at young birds
22 I once made a speech over the radio and, when I entered the studio, I was surprised to see about fifteen people of assorted ages and dresses sitting very grimly over against the wall. I thought at first that they constituted some choir or team of bell ringers who were going to follow me on the program, but the announcer told me that they were my audience and that, whenever he gave the signal, they would burst into laughter and applause so that my larger audience in radioland would think that they were listening in on a wow. All that this did was to make me nervous. Furthermore, I could feel that my professional laughters had taken an immediate and instinctive dislike to me.
23 I never move without a plentiful supply of optical glass. A pair of spectacles for reading, a pair for long range, with a couple of monocles in reserve―these go with me everywhere. To break all these , it would need an earthquake or railway accident. And absence of mind would have to be carried to idiocy before they could all be lost. Moreover, there is a further safety in a numerous supply: matter, who can doubt it? is not neutral, as the men of science falsely teach, but slightly malignant on the side of the devils against us. This being so, one pair of spectacles must inevitably break or lose itself, just when you can least afford to do without and are least able to when a pair replace it. But inanimate matter, so called, is no fool; and when a pair of spectacles realizes that you carry two or three other pairs in your pockets and suit-cases, it will understand that the game is hopeless and, so far from deliberately smashing or losing itself, will take pains to remain intact.
24 Of the fact that it takes all sorts to make a world I have been aware ever since I could read. But proverbs are always commonplaces until you have personally experienced the truth of them. To realize that is takes all sorts to make a world one must have seen a certain number of the sorts with one’s own eyes. Having seen them and having in this way acquired an intimate realization of the truth of the proverb, one finds it hard to go on believing rational and right. This conviction of man’s diversity must find its moral expression in the practice of the completest possible tolerance.
25 A male servant long in my house seemed to me the happiest of mortals. He laughed invariably when spoken to, looked always delighted at work, appeared to know nothing of the small troubles of life. But one day I peeped at him when he thought himself quite alone and his relaxed face startled me. It was not the face I had known. Hard lines of pain and anger appeared in it, making it seem twenty years older. I coughed gently to announce my presence. At once the face smoothed, softened, lighted up as by a miracle of rejuvenation. Miracle, indeed, of perpetual unselfish self-control.
26 The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil; in short, how to increase the sum of human happiness. This is the great end: it maybe well or ill pursued, but that knowledge can be an enemy to happiness is to say that men will enjoy less happiness, when they know how to seek it, than when they do not. The reasoning is on a par with that of any one who should refuse when asked to point out the road to York, saying that this inquirer would have a much better chance of reaching York without direction than with it.
27 How strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps; and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him, and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister.
28 Of him they took but little notice. He might have been a log of wood lying there at Miss Barrett’s feet for all the attention Mr. Browning paid him. Sometimes he scrubbed his head in a brisk, spasmodic way, energetically, without sentiment, as he passed him. Whatever that scrub might mean, Flush felt nothing but an intense dislike for Mr. Browning. The very sight of him set his teeth on edge. Oh! to let them meet sharply, completely in the stuff of his trousers! And yet he dared not.
29 It always is wretched weather, according to us. The weather is like the Government, always in the wrong. If it is fine, we say the country is being ruined for want of rain; if it does rain, we pray for fine weather. If December passes without snow, we indignantly demand to know what has become of our good old-fashioned winters, and talk as if we had been cheated out of something we had bought and paid for; and when it does snow, our language content until each man makes his own weather, and keeps it to himself.
30 There is, I am told, no greater happiness known on earth than that of a father who, after a party to which his children’s school friends have been invited, can lie back in his chair and tell himself that he did not behave so badly after all. It is always pleasant to pass an examination, but there is no examination which it is more blessed relief to pass than an examination by one’s children’s friends. Fathers have told me of the nervousness they have seen in their children on such occasions―of the impatient expression they have observed on the little face that, at a joke that has no point, tells them of the silent soliloquy: “Daddy being silly again!”
31 The interest of the gods in human affairs is keen, and on the whole beneficent; but they become angry if neglected, and punish rather the first they come upon than the actual person who has offended them; their fury being blind when it is raised, though never raised without reason. They will not punish with any less severity when people sin against them from ignorance and without the chance of having had knowledge ; they will take no excuses of this kind, but are even as the law, which assumes itself to be known to every one.
32 I need scarcely tell you that the greatest force in England is public opinion―that is to say, the general national opinion, or rather feeling, upon any subject of the moment. Sometimes this opinion may be wrong, but right or wrong is not here the question. It is the power that decides for or against war; it is the power that decides for or against reform :it is the power that to a very great degree influences English foreign policy.
33 The commonest form of forgetfulness, I suppose, occurs in the matter of posting letters. So common is it that I am always reluctant to trust a departing visitor to post an important letter. So little do I rely on his memory that I put him on his oath before handing the letter to him. As for myself, anyone who asks me to post a letter is a poor judge of character. Even if I carry the letter I my hand I am always past the first pillar- box before I remember that I ought to have posted it.
34 My dear old friend X, who lives in a West End square and who is an amazing mixture of good nature and irascibility, flies into a passion when he hears a street piano, and rushes out to order it away. But near by lives a distinguished lady of romantic picaresque tastes, who dotes on street pianos, and attracts them as wasps are attracted to a jar of jam. Whose liberty in this case should surrender to the other? For the life of me I cannot say. It is as reasonable to like street pianos as to dislike them― and vice versa.
35 Sir, ―My attention has been called to a very serious misstatement in your paper for Saturday last. It is there stated that my husband, Mr. Michael Stirring, who has taken KildinHall, is a retired baker. This is absolutely false. Mr. Stirring is a retired baker, than which nothing could be much more different. Mr. Stirring is at this moment too ill to read the papers, and the slander will therefore be kept from him a little longer, but what the consequences will be when he hears of it I tremble to think Kindly assure me that you will give the denial as much publicity as the falsehood.
36 Whoever has to deal with young children soon learns that too much sympathy is a mistake. Children readily understand that an adult who is sometimes a little stern is best for them: their instinct tells them whether they are loved or not, and from those whom they feel to be affectionate they will put up with whatever strictness results from genuine desire for their progress.
37 One of the interesting impressions I gained of the doctor was that of seeing him limping about our town on crutches, his medicine case held in one hand along with a crutch, visiting his patients, when he himself appeared to be so ill as to require medical attention. He was suffering from some severe form of rheumatism at the time, but this, apparently, was not sufficient to keep him from those who in his judgement probably needed his service more than he did the rest.
38 It is a curious experience to walk, as I did, recently, behind a man dressed in one’s old suit. You have a vision of yourself, or, if you will, a glimpse of your double. This being the first time I had seen the suit from the back, a vague sense of familiarity preceded recognition, and how kindly and liberal a coat it was, and how easy and how many years it still had before it, and I perceived sorrowfully that I had given away as noble a set of garments as man ever possessed.
39 At present, in the most civilized countries, freedom of speech is taken as a matter of course and seems a perfectly simple thing. We are so accustomed to it that we look on it as a natural right. But this right has been acquired only in quite recent times, and the way to its attainment has lain through lakes of blood.
40 I am of a roving disposition; but I travel not to see imposing monuments, which indeed somehow bored me, nor beautiful scenery, of which I soon tire; I travel to see men. I avoid the great. I would not cross the road to meet a president or a king; I am content to know the writer in the pages of his book and the painter in his picture; but I have journeyed a hundred leagues to see a missionary of fortnight in a vile hotel in order to improve my acquaintance with a billiard-marker.
41 Now and again there would arise a feeling that it was hard upon my mother that she should have to do so much for us, that we should be idle while she was forced to work so constantly; but we should probably have thought more of that had she not taken to work as though it were the recognized condition of life for an old lady of fifty-five.
42 Excess, it seems to me, may justly be praised if we do not praise it to excess. In a lukewarm world it is the enemy of lukewarmness. It is a protest against virtues that sail among the shallows of caution and timidity and never venture among the perils of the high seas. St. Paul might not have been so good a Christian if he had not previously been an excessive persecutor of Christians. All genius, whether religious or artistic, is a kind of excess.
43 Though compliments should arise naturally out of the occasion, they should not appear to be prompted by the spur of it; for then they seem hardly spontaneous. Applaud a man’s speech at the moment when he sits down, and he will take your compliment as exacted by the demands of common civility; but let some space intervene, and then show him that the merits of his speech have dwelt with you when you might have been expected to have forgotten them, and he will remember your compliment for a much longer time than you have remembered his speech.
44 It is surely discreditable, under the age of thirty, not to be shy. Self-assurance in the young betokens a lack of sensibility: the boy or girl who is not shy at twenty-two will at forty-two become a bore. “I may be wrong, of course,”―thus will he or she gabble at forty -two, “but what I always say is…” No, let us educate the younger generation to be shy in and out of season: to edge behind the furniture: to say spasmodic and ill-digested things: to twist their feet round the protective feet of sofas and armchairs. For shyness is the protective fluid within which our personalities are able to develop into natural sharps.
45 There is one thing for which I envy the general playgoer above all. I mean his freedom and pungency of criticism. Anonymity gives him irresponsibility, and his resentment at being bored not being subject to the cooling process of literary composition, his language is apt to be really terrible. Talk about printed criticism! Actors and authors do talk of it often enough, and on the whole don’t seem to like it; but let them mingle with the general playgoer and keep their ears open! The general playgoer is the great purveyor of secret criticism.
46 My mother had a good deal of trouble with me but I think she enjoyed it. She had none at all with my brother Henry, who was two years younger than I, and I think that the unbroken monotony of his goodness and truthfulness and obedience would have a burden to her but for the relief and variety which I furnished in the other direction. I was a tonic to her. I was valuable to her.
47 Most people the vast majority in fact, lead the lives that circumstances have thrust upon them, and though some repine. Looking upon themselves as round pegs in square holes, and think that if things had been different they might have made a much better showing, the greater part accept their lot, if not with serenity, at all events with resignation. They are like tramcars travelling for ever on the selfsame rails. They go backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, inevitably, till they can go no longer and then are sold as scrap-iron.
48 I wanted to be a cowboy. I told Father on the way home. He chuckled and said no, I didn’t. He said I might as well be a tramp. I wondered if I’d better tell him that this idea had occurred to me, no further back than that very morning, I decided that upon the whole it mightn’t be a good day to mention it, just after Father had taken me to lunch at Delmonico’s. I did venture to ask him, however, what was the matter with cowboys.
49 The other day a well-known English novelist asked me how old I thought she was really. “Well,” I say to myself, “since she has asked for it, she shall have it; I will be as true to life as her novels.” So I replied audaciously: “Thirty-eight.” I fancied, if at all, on the side of “really”. And I tremble She laughed triumphantly. “I am forty-three.” She said.
50 Not the least of Zoological Gardens’ many attractions is their inexhaustibility. There is always something new, and―what is not less satisfactory―there is something old that you had previously missed. How is that? How is it that one may go to the Zoo a thousand times and consistently overlook one of the most ingratiating denizens, and then on the thousand-and-first visit come upon this creature as thought he was the latest arrival? There the quaint little absurdity was, all that long while, as ready to be seen as today, but you never saw him, or, at any rate, you never noticed him. The time was not yet.
>>103 38 原文 筆写ミスしてたので… It is a curious experience to walk, as I did, recently, behind a man dressed in one’s old suit. You have a vision of yourself, or, if you will, a glimpse of your double. This being the first time I had seen the suit from the back, a vague sense of familiarity preceded recognition, and then looking steadfastly on its pattern, I remembered how kindly and liberal a coat it was, and how easy and unconstrained all movements of limb had been in it, and how many years it still had before it, and I perceived sorrowfully that I had given away as noble a set of garments as man ever possessed.
コンサイス英和辞典（第13版）に「紳士［自由人］にふさわしい」とあります。そこで、Shorter Oxford English Dictionaryで確認してみると、こちらには冒頭に以下のように記載されています。 1 Orig., suitable for a free man or (in later use) a gentleman or person of social standing
You have a vision of yourself, or, if you will, a glimpse of your double.
a vision of yourself 自分自身の姿 幻影 if you will そう言いたければ 後に妙な言葉を出すので、予め注意したのである double 生き写し（以上、解釈につよくなるための英文５０） if you will 言うなれば（ジーニアス） もしそう言いたい[呼びたい]のならば（リーダーズ） double 生霊（doppelganger）
ここはcurious の具体描写ですかねぇ おそらく自分が売った服装を買った人がそれを着て歩いてるのを見て、自分が歩いていると 錯覚する感じをcuriousと言ったのかと curiousって言葉からしてvisionは幻影 思い描いた姿 で if you willでひと息いれたあと、 doubleで自分の幻影を生霊（doppelganger）って言い換えたのでは まあ訳でどこまで感じを出すかは別問題なきがする
単にitがIに見えただけだと思いますが… how many years it still had before it, まだまだ捨てずに何年も使用可能だったこと（解釈につよくなるための英文５０） it 作者が手放した服装 have 物などが、（性質・属性を）もっている
>>119 やはりというか全然違ってました。 ん？なんかなつかしいな→自分の服やんけ(recognition)→and then以下、あーもったいな いことしたわ！の順ですね。 recognitionが訳から完全に抜けてました。 how many years it still had before itは雰囲気で訳してしまって読めてなかったです。 どれほど長いあいだ所持していたか、と訳してからstillはなんだろうな？と思ったのです が深く考えることもなく‥。 if you willとdoubleは簡単な単語で油断してましたが辞書を引くべきでした。 端から端まで言われてみるとなるほどという感じです。色々ありがとうございます。
communicative「意思疎通する、隠し立てしない」 in a reserved way「控えめに、遠慮して」 open up 〜 to …「〜を…に開放する」→「〜を…に近づける」 curious（限定用法で）「奇妙な」 nature（c）「（修飾語を伴って）〜の性質の人」 not a few 「少なからぬ」（quite a fewより堅い言い方です） veteran bores：veteren（形）「老練な、いっぱしの」＋ bore（名）「退屈な人物」で 「人をうんざりさせるのが得意な人たち」
>>69 11．父はどのくらい正しいか ある日突然、父は私たちに音楽を習わせようと思っていたことを思い出した。少年はみな 習うべきと思っていることが他にも数えきれないほどあって、それにはたとえば水泳や靴 磨きが、それから少年なら優れているべきだと彼が考える学業が言うまでもなく含まれて いた。そして今、音楽も教育に含まれるべきだということを思い出したのである。彼は子 供は皆、何か楽器と歌を教わるべきだという考えの持ち主だった。父はおそらく正しかっ た。とにかく彼の計画にはたくさんいうべきことがある。（？）一方、子供も人それぞれで、 私には音楽の耳がなかった。父はこの点を決して考慮しなかったが、子供を成形すべき生 の素材だとみなしていた。 *一部原文参照 He held that all children should be taught to play on something, and sing. He was right, perhaps. At any rate, there is a great deal to be said for his programme. On the other hand, there are children and children. I had no ear for music. Father was the last man to take this into consideration, however: he looked upon children as raw material that a father should mould.
>>76 分からない点があるので見やすいように英文再掲 15．割り込みはどう扱う？ On arriving at Liverpool, I made the acquaintance of a man who had been in America some years previously, and not having his hopes realized at that time, had returned desperate to England, taken in a fresh cargo of hopes, and was now making a second attempt with as much enthusiasm, if not more, than others in making their first.
リバプールについてすぐ、私はある男性と知り合いになった。彼は私と会う前に数年間ア メリカに住んでいたことがあったが、当時は希望をかなえることができず、自暴自棄でイ ングランドに戻ってきた。だが希望という積み荷を新鮮なまま腕に抱えたままであり、他 の人が初めて挑戦するときと同じくらいの（それ以上とは言わないが）熱意を持って二度 目の挑戦に挑んだ。 *cargo 貨物、積み荷 *take in 中に入れる、手につかむ、腕の中に抱く/抱える、荷物を積み込む、 **taken in a fresh cargo of hopes 希望という新鮮な積み荷を腕に抱え？？ *others 他の人？ *in making their first 他の人が最初の挑戦をするとき？ *普通はas much asだけどif not moreがあるせいでas much thanになった？
>>77 訳を確認しやすいよう英文再掲します 16．They ってだれのこと？ The advantage of living abroad is that, coming in contact with the manners and customs of the people among whom you live, you observe them from the outside and see that they have not the necessity which those who practice them believe. You cannot fail to discover that the beliefs which to you are self-evident to the foreigner are absurd. The year in Germany, the long stay in Paris, had prepared Philip to receive the skeptical teaching which came to him now with such a feeling of relief. He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil; things were merely adapted to an end. /He read The Origin of Species. It seemed to offer an explanation of much that troubled him. He 外国に住む利点は、自分の周囲で暮らす人々の礼儀や習慣に触れる時に、外側から観察し、 それら礼儀や習慣は、順守している人は必要だと信じていても実際は必要ではないことが 分かることである。自分にとって自明の信念であっても外国人にとっては馬鹿げているこ とに必ず気付く。ドイツに数年、パリに長年住んだことで、フィリップはこの懐疑的な教 えを受け入れる心構えができていたが、この懐疑的な教えは彼にずいぶんな安心感をもた らした。何事にも善や悪はなくて、ただ目的に応じてそうなるだけなのだ。 *come in contact with ～と接触する、触れ合う、出くわす *prepare [+目的語+to do〕〈人に〉〈…するように〉準備してやる[させる]. * had prepared Philip to receive the skeptical teaching **the skeptical teachingとは、自分たちの礼儀、習慣、信念といったものが絶対的なもの ではないという教え？？
taken in a fresh cargo of hopes 新たな希望の積み荷をいれて 比喩 新たな希望を抱いて 新たなる希望に燃えて （行方訳）
had prepared Philip to receive the skeptical teaching which came to him now with such a feeling of relief. the skeptical teachin 何にでも懐疑的な目を向けるがよいという教訓 フィリップは外国に生活して自分にとって自明のことでもほかの人にはそうでもないことがあると理解した
>>78 訳と比較しやすいよう英文再掲 17．反省したのはいつ？ The European traveler in America―at least if I may judge by myself―is struck by two Peculiarities: first the extreme similarity of outlook in all parts of the United States, and Secondly the passionate desire of each locality to prove that it is peculiar and different from each other. The second of these is, of course, caused by the first. Every place wishes to have a reason for local pride, and therefore cherishes whatever is distinctive in the way of geography or history or tradition. The greater the uniformity that in fact exists, the more eager becomes the search for differences that may mitigate it.
>>79 18．切れ目はどこ？隠れている語は何？ I have often noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call him up the moment you come in, and it’s important, the matter is more often important to him than to you. When it comes to making you a present or doing you a favour most people are able to hold their impatience within reasonable bounds.
>>80 19．とても孤独な人 From my fifteenth year―save for a single interval―I have lived about as solitary a life as a modern man can have. I mean by this that the number of hours, days, months, and years that I have spent alone has been immense and extraordinary. I propose, therefore, to describe the experience of human loneliness exactly as I have known it. The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
>>81 20．物語がとまらない One day a good fortune befell him, for he hit upon The Thousand Nights and a Night. He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read the stories that dealt with magic , and then the others; and those he liked he read again and again. He could think of nothing else. Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world , the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
＞and it’s important, and （says）it’s important, it 要件
>When it comes to making you a present it 状況のit
>From my fifteenth yea 15歳の時以来 >I propose, therefore, to describe the experience of human loneliness exactly as I have known it. as 接続詞 exactly as I have known it. → describe それゆえに僕は、自分が経験してきた、まさにそのままに人間の孤独体験を述べようと意図している。（行方訳）
>>82 It is when Parliament is not sitting that the papers are most interesting to read. I have found an item of news to-day which would never have been given publicity in the busy times, and it has moved me strangely. Here it is, backed by the authority of Dr. Chalmers Mitchell:– “The caterpillar of the puss-moth, not satisfied with Nature’s provisions for its safety, makes faces at young birds, and is said to alarm them considerably.” I like that “is said to.” Probably the young bird would deny indignantly that he was alarmed, and would explain that he was only going away because he suddenly remembered that he had an engagement on the croquet lawn, or that he had forgotten his umbrella. But whether he alarms them or not, the fact remains that the caterpillar of the puss-moth does make faces at young birds; and we may be pretty sure that, even if he began the practice in self-defense, the habit is one that has grown on him.
>>83 I once made a speech over the radio and, when I entered the studio, I was surprised to see about fifteen people of assorted ages and dresses sitting very grimly over against the wall. I thought at first that they constituted some choir or team of bell ringers who were going to follow me on the program, but the announcer told me that they were my audience and that, whenever he gave the signal, they would burst into laughter and applause so that my larger audience in radioland would think that they were listening in on a wow. All that this did was to make me nervous. Furthermore, I could feel that my professional laughters had taken an immediate and instinctive dislike to me.
>>86 I never move without a plentiful supply of optical glass. A pair of spectacles for reading, a pair for long range, with a couple of monocles in reserve — these go with me everywhere. To break all these, it would need an earthquake or a railway accident. And absence of mind would have to be carried to idiocy before they could all be lost. Moreover, there is a further safety in a numerous supply: for matter, who can doubt it ? is not neutral, as the men of science falsely teach, but slightly malignant, on the side of the devils against us. This being so, one pair of spectacles must inevitably break or lose itself, just when you can least afford to do without and are least able to (when a pair) replace it. But inanimate matter, so called, is no fool; and when a pair of spectacles realizes that you carry two or three other pairs in your pockets and suit-cases, it will understand that the game is hopeless and, so far from deliberately smashing or losing itself, will take pains to remain intact.
*absence of mind would have to be carried to idiocy before they could all be lost. （自分の無理やりな解釈を一応。微妙ですが） 放心状態は白痴へと運ばれなければならない、メガネが全部紛失される前に。 →放心状態で2～3つなくすことはあっても全部なくすことはありえない、 全部なくすときは放心状態どころではなく白痴の状態になっている。
*absence of mind ぼんやりしていること、放心状態、うわの空 *idiocy 愚かさ、馬鹿さ加減、白痴
*真ん中へんの“matter, who can doubt it? is not neutral”の？は原文でも？になっていま すがよくわかりませんでした。文字化けですかね。
>>158 sitting 会期中 Nature’s provisions 毛虫に自然に備わるもののこと >>159 choir 合唱団 follow me 私のあとに続く 私の後を継ぐ radioland ラジオ放送の受信可能範囲 were listening in on a wow 大当たりの番組を聴いている 瞬間的 → すぐに >>160 who can doubt it? 挿入節 it = matter is not neutral 無機質 → 無生物と訳されてた
>>87 Of the fact that it takes all sorts to make a world I have been aware ever since I could read. But proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. The newly arrested thief knows that honesty is the best policy with an intensity of conviction which the rest of us can never experience. And to realize that it takes all sorts to make a world one must have seen a certain number of the sorts with one’s own eyes. Having seen them and having in this way acquired an intimate realization of the truth of the proverb, one finds it hard to go on complacently believing that one’s own opinions, one’s own way of life are alone rational and right. This conviction of man’s diversity must find its moral expression in the practice of the completest possible tolerance.
>>88 A male servant long in my house seemed to me the happiest of mortals. He laughed invariably when spoken to, looked always delighted while at work, appeared to know nothing of the small troubles of life. But one day I peered at him when he thought himself quite alone, and his relaxed face startled me. It was not the face I had known. Hard lines of pain and anger appeared in it, making it seem twenty years older. I coughed gently to announce my presence. At once the face smoothed, softened, lighted up as by a miracle of rejuvenation. Miracle, indeed, of perpetual unselfish self-control.
後半に少し解釈なり訳が難しいのがいくつかあったかも 以下あくまで個人的意見だけど…. >>163 ＞he newly arrested thief knows that honesty is the best policy with an ＞intensity of conviction which the rest of us can never experience. ここんところ岩波ジュニアのテキストにはないですね 原文が加工された入試問題か参考書から採ってきたのかも This conviction of man’s diversity must find its moral expression in the practice of the completest possible tolerance. さまざまな人間が存在すると確信したならば、 他人に対して可能な限り徹底して寛大な態度を取るというのが道徳的に正しいに違いない（行方訳） the practice of the completest possible toleranceのofは目的格っぽい expressionは言葉だけではない気がする >>164 when he thought himself quite alone, think O (to be) C OがCだとおもう 能動のときは通例to beが省略される （ジーニアス） 直訳 彼は自分自身が完全に一人でいると思っていたときに
自分の解釈を一応… >This conviction of man’s diversity この人間の多様性の信念 >must find its moral expression 道徳的な表現を見つけるはず（違いない） >in the practice of ～を行使するさいに >the completest possible tolerance 徹底的なありうる忍耐（寛容）
忍耐（寛容）とは何か、と考えたのですが、人間の多様性ということで、価値観や考え方 の違う人と接したときの忍耐かなと考えたわけですね。 人は多様性がある生き物なのだという信念があれば、忍耐を行使する際に道徳的な表現を 見つけるという解釈で踏み込んで訳してみたのですが、in the practice of は能動的なニュアンスだと 思うので自分の解釈だと合わないんですよね。この点が致命的だと思います。 明日、英標の訳を載せますね。
The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil ; in short, how to increase the sum of human happiness. This is the great end: it may be well or ill pursued, but to say that knowledge can be an enemy to happiness is to say that men will enjoy less happiness, when they know how to seek it, than when they do not. This reasoning is on a par with that of any one who should refuse when asked to point out the road to York, saying that his inquirer would have a much better chance of reaching York without direction than with it.
sum 総計 総和 総量 may be well or ill pursued 巧みなのも不器用なのもあろう（行方訳） to say that men will enjoy less happiness, when they know how to seek it, than when they do not そんな言い分は、幸福の求め方を知っているのと、知らない場合に比べて、幸福を享受しにくいにというに等しい（行方訳） when they do not (know how to seek happiness)
>>90 27．世の中にはこんな人もいる How strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister. *instinct 生得の才能、素質、 *seize upon 1．ぐっとつかむ、捕らえる、飛びつく、2．付け込む、付け入る *stockbroker 株式仲買人、ストックブローカー *stubborn 頑固な、強情な、確固とした、断固とした、ゆるぎない、頑強な、不屈の *vigilance （危険・違法行為に対する）警戒、用心、不眠症 *austerity 厳格さ、質素（な生活）、（複数形）禁欲生活 *cloister （世間から隔離された）修道院、修道院生活
>>91 28．Heは人間？犬？ Of him they took but little notice. He might have been a log of wood lying there at Miss Barrett’s feet for all the attention Mr. Browning paid him. Sometimes he scrubbed his head in a brisk, spasmodic way, energetically, without sentiment, as he passed him. Whatever that scrub might mean, Flush felt nothing but an intense dislike for Mr. Browning. The very sight of him, so well tailored, so tight, so muscular, screwing his yellow gloves in his hand, set his teeth on edge. Oh! to let them meet sharply, completely in the stuff of his trousers! And yet he dared not. Taking it all in all, that winter — 1845-6 — was the most distressing that Flush had ever known. *but ～を除いて？ only？ *log of wood 木材の丸太 *scrub ごしごしこする *brisk きびきびした、活発な *spasmodic 痙攣性の、痙攣による、痙攣のような、発作的な *sentiment 感情の混じった意見、感情、情緒 *intense 激しい、強烈な *nothing but ～にすぎない *tailored 仕立てのきちんとした *tight 衣服や靴が体にぴったりした *screw ねじ込む *set one’s teeth 覚悟を決める *set one’s teeth on edge 不快感を与える、いらいらさせる *all in all 全部で、全体的に、全体から見て、全体として、大体において、概して言えば *distressing 悲惨な、痛ましい、悩ませる、苦しめる
>>92 29．天気と政府の共通点は？ It always is wretched weather, according to us. The weather is like the Government, always in the wrong. If it is fine, we say the country is being ruined for want of rain; if it does rain, we pray for fine weather. If December passes without snow, we indignantly demand to know what has become of our good old-fashioned winters, and talk as if we had been cheated out of something we had bought and paid for; and when it does snow, our language is a disgrace to a Christian nation. We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
我々に言わせれば、天気はいつも嫌な状態だ。天気は政府に似ていつも悪い。もし晴れて いたら、雨不足のせいで国がダメになると言う。雨が降れば晴れてほしいと祈る。もし雪 が降らないまま12月が過ぎれば、古き良き12月はどうなったのかと憤り、あたかも騙さ れて物を買ってしまったかのようだ。雪が降ったら降ったでキリスト教の国に不名誉なこ とを言う。みんなが自分専用の天気を作り出してキープするまで決して満足することはな いだろう。 *our language is a disgrace to a Christian nation. キリスト教に何か雪に関する考えか言葉があって、雪が降ったらそれに反するようなことを我々が言う、という意味でしょうか。
>>172 such as were dependent on him 扶養家族 abandon A for B Aを捨てBを選ぶ conquered being conquered 意味上の主語は they 権力と富をもつ男 神の霊がとりつく→霊がしつこく追い求める→男が征服される→男が修道院に入る >>173 接続詞のbutだと思った He might have been a log of wood lying there at Miss Barrett’s feet for all the attention Mr. Browning paid him. for all ・・にもかかわらず ほとんど・・ないから ブラウニング氏が注目しないので、フラッシュはバレット嬢の足下にころがる丸太同然だ た。（行方訳）
There is but little hope. 望みはほとんどない I have very little money left お金はほとんどない She has so little regard for him 彼女は彼をほとんど評価していない very littleは強調表現 副詞のbut らしいけど but littleで ほんのわずかしか～ない（ほとんどない）って表現だろうか but ただほんの・・だけ 口語で まったく 断然 本当に >>175 cheated out of something 騙されて～を奪われる language is a disgrace 言葉が恥→恥になるような言葉を使う（罵声を発する） keep oneself ひとりじめする He kept the money to himself 彼はお金をひとりじめした
>>93 30． There is, I am told, no greater happiness known on earth than that of a father who, after a party to which his children’s school friends have been invited, can lie back in his chair and tell himself that he did not behave so badly after all. It is always pleasant to pass an examination, but there is no examination which it is more blessed relief to pass than an examination by one’s children’s friends. Fathers have told me of the nervousness they have seen in their children on such occasions―of the impatient expression they have observed on the little face that, at a joke that has no point, tells them of the silent soliloquy: “Daddy being silly again!”
>>95 31． The interest of the gods in human affairs is keen, and on the whole beneficent; but they become angry if neglected, and punish rather the first they come upon than the actual person who has offended them; their fury being blind when it is raised, though never raised without reason. They will not punish with any less severity when people sin against them from ignorance and without the chance of having had knowledge ; they will take no excuses of this kind, but are even as the law, which assumes itself to be known to every one.
>>96 32． I need scarcely tell you that the greatest force in England is public opinion―that is to say, the general national opinion, or rather feeling, upon any subject of the moment. Sometimes this opinion may be wrong, but right or wrong is not here the question. It is the power that decides for or against war; it is the power that decides for or against reform :it is the power that to a very great degree influences English foreign policy.
>>97 33． The commonest form of forgetfulness, I suppose, occurs in the matter of posting letters. So common is it that I am always reluctant to trust a departing visitor to post an important letter. So little do I rely on his memory that I put him on his oath before handing the letter to him. As for myself, anyone who asks me to post a letter is a poor judge of character. Even if I carry the letter I my hand I am always past the first pillar- box before I remember that I ought to have posted it.
>>98 34． My dear old friend X, who lives in a West End square and who is an amazing mixture of good nature and irascibility, flies into a passion when he hears a street piano, and rushes out to order it away. But near by lives a distinguished lady of romantic picaresque tastes, who dotes on street pianos, and attracts them as wasps are attracted to a jar of jam. Whose liberty in this case should surrender to the other? For the life of me I cannot say. It is as reasonable to like street pianos as to dislike them― and vice versa.
>>99 35． Sir, ―My attention has been called to a very serious misstatement in your paper for Saturday last. It is there stated that my husband, Mr. Michael Stirring, who has taken Kildin Hall, is a retired baker. This is absolutely false. Mr. Stirring is a retired banker, than which nothing could be much more different. Mr. Stirring is at this moment too ill to read the papers, and the slander will therefore be kept from him a little longer, but what the consequences will be when he hears of it I tremble to think. Kindly assure me that you will give the denial as much publicity as the falsehood.
>>100 36 Whoever has to deal with young children soon learns that too much sympathy is a mistake. Children readily understand that an adult who is sometimes a little stern is best for them: their instinct tells them whether they are loved or not, and from those whom they feel to be affectionate they will put up with whatever strictness results from genuine desire for their progress.
>>101 37 One of the interesting impressions I gained of the doctor was that of seeing him limping about our town on crutches, his medicine case held in one hand along with a crutch, visiting his patients, when he himself appeared to be so ill as to require medical attention. He was suffering from some severe form of rheumatism at the time, but this, apparently, was not sufficient to keep him from those who in his judgement probably needed his service more than he did the rest.
38の懐かしい服はやったのでパス >>104 39 At present, in the most civilized countries, freedom of speech is taken as a matter of course and seems a perfectly simple thing. We are so accustomed to it that we look on it as a natural right. But this right has been acquired only in quite recent times, and the way to its attainment has lain through lakes of blood.
>>105 40 I am of a roving disposition; but I travel not to see imposing monuments, which indeed somehow bored me, nor beautiful scenery, of which I soon tire; I travel to see men. I avoid the great. I would not cross the road to meet a president or a king; I am content to know the writer in the pages of his book and the painter in his picture; but I have journeyed a hundred leagues to see a missionary of fortnight in a ville hotel in order to improve my acquaintance with a billiard-marker.
>>192 邸の名前らしい 訳だとキルディン館ってなってた 悪漢小説 悪者小説 ピカレスク小説 というジャンルがあるらしい https://kotobank.jp/word/ピカレスク小説-119259#E7.9F.A5.E6.81.B5.E8.94.B5 >>13 sympathy 共感らしい すぐ「同情」と訳す人が多いので注意 と書いてた >>194 apparently どうやら～らしい と注記されてた この語は古い辞書だと明らかにが一番最初に出てるが 利用者の指摘で 今は 見たとこ ろ・・らしいが最初にくるようになったと行方本のどれかの本で読んだ >>196 原文の映し間違い I am of a roving disposition; but I travel not to see imposing monuments, which indeed somehow bore me, nor beautiful scenery, of which I soon tire; I travel to see men. I avoid the great. I would not cross the road to meet a president or a king; I am content to know the writer in the pages of his book and the painter in his picture; but I have journeyed a hundred leagues to see a missionary of whom I had heard a strange story and I have spent a fortnight in a ville hotel in order to improve my acquaintance with a billiard-marker. bored → bore a missionary of whom I had heard a strange story and I have spent a ← 欠落箇所 fortnight in a ville hotel in order to improve my acquaintance with a billiard-marker. billiard-marker 玉突き師 a league 一リーグは約五キロ acquaintance 交際 でも変わった噂を聞いた宣教師に会うためなら、１００リーグ旅するのも厭わない。ビリヤ ードの名人と仲良くなるために、薄汚いホテルで２週間費やしたこともある
>>107 42 Excess, it seems to me, may justly be praised if we do not praise it to excess.In a lukewarm world it is the enemy of lukewarmness. It is a protest against virtues that sail among the shallows of caution and timidity and never venture among the perils of high seas. All genius, whether religious or artistic, is a kind of excess.
>>108 43． Though compliments should arise naturally out of the occasion, they should not appear to be prompted by the spur of it, for then they seem hardly spontaneous. Applaud a man's speech at the moment when he sits down and he will take your compliment as exacted by the demands of a common civility; but let some space intervene, and then show him that the merits of his speech have dwelt with you, and he will remember your compliment for a much longer time than you have remembered his speech.
>>208 You may justly praise excess ～ う～ん justlyは 文修飾の 当然 正当に 当然のことながらがよさそうって気がする けどどうだろ 訳からすると 公正に ってとってんのかな We can justly call him a second Einstein. 彼をアインシュタイン二世と呼んでもいいだろう >>210 欠落箇所あり すまそ Though compliments should arise naturally out of the occasion, they should not appear to be prompted by the spur of it, for then they seem hardly spontaneous. Applaud a man's speech at the moment when he sits down and he will take your compliment as exacted by the demands of a common civility; but let some space intervene, and then show him that the merits of his speech have dwelt with you,
when you might have been expected to have forgotton them ← 欠落箇所
and he will remember your compliment for a much longer time than you have remembered his speech.
merites は（称賛に価する）美点ととったけどどうだろか 訳はすぴーとの良さってなっ てた まあジーニアスだと一応 （優れた）価値はU（不可算）とはなってるが…. by the spur of it = by the spur of the moment もののはずみで 思い付きで might have been してくれてもよかったのに You might have helped me 手伝ってくれてもよかったのに と訳す場合がある
>>109 44 It is surely discreditable, under the age of thirty, not to be shy. Self-assurance in the young betokens a lack of sensibility: the boy or girl who is not shy at twenty-two will at forty-two become a bore. “I may be wrong, of course,”―thus will he or she gabble at forty -two, “but what I always say is…” No, let us educate the younger generation to be shy in and out of season: to edge behind the furniture: to say spasmodic and ill-digested things: to twist their feet round the protective feet of sofas and armchairs. For shyness is the protective fluid within which our personalities are able to develop into natural shapes. *in and out of season 時を選ばず、常に *discreditable 不名誉な *self-assurance 自信、落ち着き *betoken 示す、表す、～を予示する、前兆となる *gabble （早口、しどろもどろ）にしゃべる、アヒルなどがガーガー鳴く *edge じりじり進む * *spasmodic >>173 *twist 絡ませる
>>111の45は考え中であります。 >Anonymity gives him irresponsibility, and his resentment at being bored not being subject to the cooling process of literary composition, his language is apt to be really terrible. ここの解釈 >Talk about printed criticism! 誰が誰に向かって言っているのか？ 41は難しくて飛ばしましたがよりこっちの方が難しいです。
>>216 たぶん分詞構文が見抜けるかどうかかな Talkは一応注釈あるけど 大きな辞書に載ってる説明らしい Talk about 次に来る語に対する驚き 嫌悪 批判 称賛などを表わす語 Talk about luck! 前後関係で「ついてる！」とも「ついてるもんか！」ともなる でここからコンテクストを参考に解釈するといってる
英辞郎のコピペ 〔命令形で〕まさに～とはこのことだ、全くすごい～だ ・"He got an order just a week ago, and now he's already done." "Talk about a hard worker!" : 「あの人先週仕事受けたばかりなのに、もう終わってるのよ」「すごい働き者なんだね！」 ・Talk about rare! : 珍しいとはこのことだ。／どういう風の吹き回しだ。
>>219 ありがとうございます。 >Anonymity gives him irresponsibility, and his resentment at being bored not being subject to the cooling process of literary composition, his language is apt to be really terrible. ヒントから「匿名性と怒りにより、彼の言葉は本当にひどくなる。」という気がしてきましたがまだ考え中‥ >at being bored not being subject to ここですが、二つのbeingは並列なのか考え中… >subject to the cooling process of literary composition 文学的な構成の冷却する過程とは何ぞや‥ 多分ですが、この英文は新聞か雑誌に載った寄せ書きかエッセイで、ネイティブは鼻ホジしながら一瞬で読むと思うんですよね いただいたヒントをもとに少しずつ考えます。
>>112 46 My mother had a good deal of trouble with me but I think she enjoyed it. She had none at all with my brother Henry, who was two years younger than I, and I think that the unbroken monotony of his goodness and truthfulness and obedience would have a burden to her but for the relief and variety which I furnished in the other direction. I was a tonic to her. I was valuable to her.
>>113 47. The Lotus Eater Most people, the vast majority in fact, lead the lives that circumstances have thrust upon them, and though some repine, looking upon themselves as round pegs in square holes, and think that if things had been different they might have made a much better showing, the greater part accept their lot, if not with serenity, at all events with resignation. They are like tramcars traveling for ever on the selfsame rails. They go backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards, inevitably, till they can go no longer and then are sold as scrap-iron.
>>114 48 I wanted to be a cowboy. I told Father on the way home. He chuckled and said no, I didn’t. He said I might as well be a tramp. I wondered if I’d better tell him that this idea had occurred to me, no further back than that very morning. I decided that upon the whole it mightn’t be a good day to mention it, just after Father had taken me to lunch at Delmonico’s. I did venture to ask him, however, what was the matter with cowboys.
>>115 49 The other day a well-known English novelist asked me how old I thought she was really. “Well,” I say to myself, “since she has asked for it, she shall have it; I will be as true to life as her novels.” So I replied audaciously: “Thirty-eight.” I fancied, if at all, on the side of “really”. And I tremble. She laughed triumphantly. “I am forty-three.” She said.
*true to life 真に迫った、写実的、如実に、実物そっくりの、迫真性のある、実物通り、 写実的な、等身大 *audaciously 大胆に、不敵に、横柄に、独創的に *fancy 空想（力）、想像（力）、夢、幻想、気まぐれ、思い付き、恋愛感情、装飾的な、し ゃれた、風変わりな、空想的な、心に描く、想像する、空想する、好む、気に入る、魅力 を感じる、～したい気がする *if at all 仮にあったとしても、たとえそうなったとしても、そうであるにしても、いやし くも（…するからには）、…する以上は *triumphantly 鼻高々、鼻高高、旗鼓堂々、旗鼓堂堂、得々、誇らしげに、得意顔で、鬼 の首を取ったように、得々と、昂然として 先日、とある有名なイギリス人小説家が「正直なところ、私は何歳に見えますか。」と聞いてきた。「自分から聞いてきたんだ、報いを受けさせてやれ。彼女の小説のようにリアルに 答えてやるぞ。」と心の中で思った。そこで「38歳」と大胆に答えた。予想するからにはリ アルに行かないと。そして私は身震いした。彼女は誇らしげに「43歳です。」と答えた。
>>229 Delmonico’ｓ ニューヨークの高級レストラン upon the whole あれこれ考えてみれば I wondered if I’d better tell him this idea had occurred to me, no further back than that very morning. 実は浮浪者になるのもいいと考えていたんです。それもまさにその日の朝に、と告げようか どうか思案した
asked for it 自ら災難を招いた itは状況のit ここではtrouble true to life 人生をありのままに描く if at all いやしくも～するなら cf. She made up very little, if at all, and was gentle and shy. And I trembled. お化粧をするにしても薄化粧であり、穏やかで内気だった。 on the side of 幾分～に近い I fancied, if at all, on the side of “really.” 「本当のところ」というのに、ややこだわりすぎたような気がして、心配だった。
>>232 細かくありがとうございます。 >no further back than that very morning >no further back ～より決して昔ではない >than that very morning まさにその日の朝より 意味的には「まさにその日の朝より決して昔ではない」という感じでしょうかね。 まさにその日の朝に思い浮かんだのは浮浪者になること、は見抜けなかったです； たぶん考えずに読むと自分と同じ間違いをするかと思われます。 49． > I fancied, if at all, on the side of “really.” ここは意味がつかめなかったです、残念です；
>>116 50 Not the least of Zoological Gardens’ many attractions is their inexhaustibility. There is always something new, and ―what is not less satisfactory― there is something old that you had previously missed. How is that? How is it that one may go to the Zoo a thousand times and consistently overlook one of the most ingratiating denizens, and then on the thousand-and-first visit come upon this creature as thought he was the latest arrival? There the quaint little absurdity was, all that long while, as ready to be seen as today, but you never saw him, or, at any rate, you never noticed him. The time was not yet.
>>234 補足だけど not the least 最小でないもの 訳だと 少なからず魅力的 とか けっこう注目すべき魅力 となっている このルーカスの文章 たしか東大かどっかで出されて英文標準問題精講などでも載ってた とおもうけど、ネットで調べるとこういう訳だった ロンドン動物園のもつ数々の魅力のうちでも、軽視できないのは、その魅力のたねが尽きないことである
Not the least of は手持ち辞書になかったので分解して考えました。 the least of -, 「～のうちで最も小さいもの」をＮotで否定してるのかなと。 わざわざ文頭にNotを出しているので～のうちで最も小さいをやや強めに否定する のではないかと考えました。 他に疑問を感じた個所がネットにあったのでコピペ。 >there the quaint little absurdity の There は場所を表す副詞で、「そこで」「そこに」の >意味だと考えて良いでしょうか？ >there は大きく分けて「そこで（へ）」と there is などと、「ほら」の３つしかありません。 >だから、広くは「そこで」でいいのですが、普通の場所とは違います。 >日本語でも話の流れの中で、「そこで」という表現を使うのと似ています。 >then に近いような、「その時点で」の意味です。 >日本語としては「実際には」くらいに訳すとうまくつながります。
>>169 26． The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil; in short, how to increase the sum of human happiness. This is the great end: it may be well or ill pursued, but to say that knowledge can be an enemy to happiness is to say that men will enjoy less happiness, when they know how to seek it, than when they do not. This reasoning is on a par with that of any one who should refuse when asked to point out the road to York, saying that his inquirer would have a much better chance of reaching York without direction than with it.
>>171 27． How strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigilance till at last, conquered, they have abandoned the joy of the world and the love of women for the painful austerities of the cloister. *instinct 生得の才能、素質、 *seize upon 1．ぐっとつかむ、捕らえる、飛びつく、2．付け込む、付け入る *stockbroker 株式仲買人、ストックブローカー *pursue 追いかける、追撃する、狩る、（災い、嫌な人）つきまとう、追求する、達成しようとする *stubborn 頑固な、強情な、確固とした、断固とした、ゆるぎない、頑強な、不屈の *vigilance （危険・違法行為に対する）警戒、用心、不眠症 *conquer 武力で獲得する、戦いとる、征服する、口説き落とす、打ち勝つ、（名声・自由）勝ち取る *painful 痛い、痛みを伴う、不快な、嫌な、痛ましい、退屈な、（生活・問題・任務）苦 しい、骨の折れる、困難な *austerity 厳格さ、質素（な生活）、（複数形）禁欲生活 *cloister （世間から隔離された）修道院、修道院生活 *such as were dependent on him 扶養家族 *abandon A for B Aを捨てBを選ぶ *conquered being conquered 意味上の主語は they 権力と富をもつ男 *神の霊がとりつく→霊がしつこく追い求める→男が征服される→男が修道院に入る
>>173 28． Of him they took but little notice. He might have been a log of wood lying there at Miss Barrett’s feet for all the attention Mr. Browning paid him. Sometimes he scrubbed his head in a brisk, spasmodic way, energetically, without sentiment, as he passed him. Whatever that scrub might mean, Flush felt nothing but an intense dislike for Mr. Browning. The very sight of him, so well tailored, so tight, so muscular, screwing his yellow gloves in his hand, set his teeth on edge. Oh! to let them meet sharply, completely in the stuff of his trousers! And yet he dared not.
*log of wood 木材の丸太 *energetically 元気いっぱいに、精力的に *scrub ごしごしこする *brisk きびきびした、活発な *spasmodic 痙攣性の、痙攣による、痙攣のような、発作的な *sentiment 感情の混じった意見、感情、情緒 *intense 激しい、強烈な *nothing but ～にすぎない *tailored 仕立てのきちんとした *tight 衣服や靴が体にぴったりした *screw ねじ込む *set one’s teeth 覚悟を決める *set one’s teeth on edge 不快感を与える、いらいらさせる *dare あえて［思い切って・恐れずに・平気で・大胆にも］～する、～する勇気がある、 ～に敢然と立ち向かう、～をやってみる *all in all 全部で、全体的に、全体から見て、全体として、大体において、概して言えば *distressing 悲惨な、痛ましい、悩ませる、苦しめる
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