１７３番です。 But those same absent attributes, I would argue, are every time those of a superficial and decorative order, attributes that are attractive, no doubt, as icing on the cake, but are not pertaining to what is really essential.…

１７２番です。 I realize that if one looks at the matter objectively, one has to concede my father lacked various attributes one may normally expect in a great butler. 単語は物々しいのですが、文自体はそんなに複雑ではないように感じます。 が…

１７１番です。 Yet it is my firm conviction that at the peak of his career at Loughborough House, my father was indeed the embodiment of 'dignity'. スチーブンスが、父が生きていたころの話題を、思い出しながら話しているという場面です。そのた…

１７０番です。 But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men, and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of 'dignity'. scrutinize 綿密に…

１６９番です。 Perhaps you might be persuaded that Mr Henderson of Branbury Castle also falls into this rare category. 今回は、文としては特に難しいところはないように思います。ただ、言葉の使い方がうまいと思えます。 persuade というあまり聞き…

１６８番です。 You will not dispute, I presume, that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times. dispute 反対する 議論する presume 推定する 今回は、言葉もあまり使わないものもの…

１６７番です。 I would like, if I may, to try and say here what I think this 'dignity' to be. 今回は短い文です。が、英文の面白さが詰まっているように思います。 短い文とはいえ、仮定法と直説法が同時に表現されているからです。 つまり、想像と現…

１６６番です。 We never came to any agreement, but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matters during the course of such discussions, and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today. 長い文で…

１６５番です。 In any case, for all Mr Graham's scepticism, I can remember he and I spending many evenings trying to put our fingers on the constitution of this 'dignity'. 今回も複雑な文ではなさそうですが、分解してみます。 ① In any case, f…

１６４番です。 In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's. そんなに長くない文ですが、つまりそれほど入り組んではいないということになりますが、意味は結構入り組んでいます。 英語ら…

１６３番です。 Those 'great' butlers like Mr Marshall who have it, I am sure, acquired it over many years of self-training and the careful absorbing of experience. 分解というより、挿入されている I am sure をはずすと見通しが良くなります。 …

１６２番です。 Now while I would accept that the majority of butlers may well discover ultimately that they do not have the capacity for it, I believe strongly that this 'dignity' is something one can meaningfully strive for throughout one…

１６１番です。 and if one did not self-evidently have it, to strive after it would be as futile as an ugly woman trying to make herself beautiful. and は小文字で始まっています。実は前の文はセミコロンでおわっており、この文はその文に対する注…

１６０番です。 Moreover, my main objection to Mr Graham's analogy was the implication that this 'dignity' was something one possessed or did not by a fluke of nature; それほど入り組んだ文ではないようです。最後はセミコロンになっていて、実は…

１５９番です。 I, on the other hand, held the opinion that to draw such a parallel tend to demean the 'dignity' of the likes of Mr Marshall. 分解してみます。 ① I, on the other hand, held the opinion that ② to draw such a parallel tend to d…

１５８番です。 Mr Graham would always take the views that this 'dignity' was something like a weman's beauty and it was thus pointless to attempt to analyse it. やはり、入り組んだところがあるようで、分解してみます。 ① Mr Graham would alway…

１５７番です。 And it was on this point that the likes of Mr Graham and I had some of our most interesting debates. 今回は短い方の文です。and が二つあったりしますが、そんなに複雑ではないようです。内容的には、グレアムさんと私が議論を交わす…

１５６番です。 Of course, this merely begs the further question: of what is 'dignity' comprised? 今回の文は、途中にコロンが入っています。実はその前後で二つの文に分かれるのです。気をつけてください。 というところで、分解すれば、 ① Of course,…

１５５番です。 If one looks at these persons we agree are 'great' butlers, if one looks at , say, Mr Marshall or Mr lane, it does seem to be that the factor which distinguishes them from those butlers who are merely extremely is most close…

１５４番です。 For all my lack of enthusiasm for the Hayes Society, it is my belief that this particular pronouncement at least was founded on a significant truth. 例のごとく、分解してみます。 ⓵ For all my lack of enthusiasm for the Hayes …

１５３番です。 No applicant will satisfy requirements, whatever his level of accompishments otherwise, if seen to fall short in the respect.' 最後に、閉じクオテーションマークがあるように、この文までがスチーブンスが記憶をたどりながら引用し…

１５２番です。 In the end, it was revealed in a brief letter to A Quaterly that in the view of the Society - and I will try and quate accurately from memory - 'the most crucial criterion is that the applicant be possesed of a dignity in ke…

１５１番です。 This provoked further controversy, and the pressure of letters continued to build up urging the Society to declare fully its membership criteria. 今回は重文ですね。二つの文章が連続していて、and でつながっています。まず分解し…

１５０番です。 One had to be guided by the judgement of 'the true ladies and gentlmen', argued the Society, or else 'we may as well adopt the proprieties of Bolshvik Russia'. 今回は短い文で助かります。といっても分解は必要ですね。 ⓵ One had…

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１４９番です。 In response to further letters in A Quarterly, the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of business…

１４８番です。 It was made clear, furthermore, that the society did not regard the houses of businessmen or the 'newly rich' as 'distinguished', and in my opinion this piece of out-dated thinking crucially undermined any serious authority …

１４７番です。 'Though of course,' the Society went on, 'this by itself is far from sufficient to satisfy requirement.' 英文での発言は、こういうパターンで表記されますね。 最初の一言、発言者、続く言葉というのがパターンだと思います。 という…

１４６番です。 Pressure to have these announced steadily mounted, and in response to a series of letters published in A Quarterly for the Gentleman's Gentleman, the Society admitted that a prerequisite for membership was that 'an applicant…

１４５番です。 But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership. まず分解してみます。 ⓵ But one matter ② the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time ③ was the questi…