１７３番です。 This is, as I say, a matter which has given me much concern. これは分解の必要はなさそうですね。 which が関係代名詞で、先行詞は a matter です。つまり、「このこと」を改めて後ろから修飾しているということです。 この後ろから修飾…

１７２番です。 It is quite possible, then, that my employer fully expects me to respond to his bantering in a like manner, and considers my failure to do so aform of negligence. この長さならと思いますが、まず分解してみます。 It is quite po…

１７１番です。 And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginald Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in…

１７０番です。 In fact, I remember Mr Simpson, the landlord of the Ploughman's Arms, saying once that were he an American bartender, he would not be chatting to us in that friendly, but ever-courteous manner of his, but insead would be ass…