英会話を身につけるために英文を読んでいきます。
Probably she drew too much water to cross the bar except at the top of spring tides. Therefore she went into that natural harbor to wait for a few days in preference to remaining in an open roadstead.
"That's so," confirmed the second mate, suddenly, in his slightly hoarse voice. "She draws over twenty feet. She's the Liverpool ship Sephora with a cargo of coal. Hundred and twenty-three days from Cardiff."
We looked at him in surprise.
和訳は以下。
英会話に大切な英文の読解。
At the rattle of the opened window the world seemed to leap out of the night and confront him, while floating up to his ears there came a sound vast and faint; the deep mutter of something immense and alive. It penetrated him with a feeling of dismay and he gasped silently. From the cab-stand in the square came distinct hoarse voices and a jeering laugh which sounded ominously harsh and cruel. It sounded threatening. He drew his head in, as if before an aimed blow, and flung the window down quickly. He made a few steps,
訳文。
Kayerts, without interrupting his occupation, would from time to time say in a friendly manner: "How goes it, you old image?" and they would smile at one another. The two whites had a liking for that old and incomprehensible creature, and called him Father Gobila. Gobila's manner was paternal, and he seemed really to love all white men. They all appeared to him very young, indistinguishably alike (except for stature), and he knew that they were all brothers, and also immortal.
日本語訳文は以下―。
Kayertsは、時々彼の占有を中断せずに、親しみのあるやり方で言うでしょう:
「どのように、行く、それおよびあなた、古いイメージ?」
また、彼らは互いに微笑むでしょう。
2つの白はその古く不可解な創造物を好み、彼を父親Gobilaと呼びました。
Gobilaの方法は父でした。また、彼は、白人の男性をすべて愛するように実際に見えました。
それらはすべて区別がつかないように似ていて、(水準を除いて)彼に非常に若く見えました。また、彼は、彼らがすべて兄弟であることを知っていました、そしてさらに永久。
英語の格言
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Thomas Alva Edison
天才は1％のひらめきと99％の努力からなります。それによって、天才とはしばしば単に、自らの課題をすべてなした才能ある人のことにすぎなません。
トーマス・エジソン
I became all expectation at this. I had tried many times to approach him on his underground side, so to speak. The very word had been pronounced between us. But he had always met me with his impenetrable calm.
"And at the same time," Mr. X continued, "it will give you a notion of the difficulties that may arise in what you are pleased to call underground work. It is sometimes difficult to deal with them. Of course there is no hierarchy amongst the affiliated. No rigid system."
和訳した文は以下―。
私はこれで期待すべてになりました。
私は、彼の地下側で彼に接近する多くの回をいわば試みました。
まさにその単語は私たちの間で発音されました。
しかし、彼は貫けない平静で私に常に会いました。
「そして同時に。」X氏、継続された、「それは、あなたに障害についての概念を与えるでしょう、それは発生するかもしれない、何の中で、埋設工に電話して、嬉しい。
それらに対処するのは時に難しい。
もちろん、合併されたものの中で階層はありません。
厳密なシステムがありません。」
