１８６番です。 There was a certain story my father was fond of repeating over the years. 今回は、浮く雑な文ではなく、分解すれば理解できる、文法の教科書に乗せたいような文です。 ということで分解です。 ① There was a certain story ② my father …

１８５番です。 If I try, then, to describe to you what I believe made my father thus distinguished, I may in this way convey my idea of what 'dignity' is. 長いような短いような。分解してみます。 ① If I try, then, to describe to you (what) ②…

１８４番です。 And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited generalとかぎられた knoeledge, he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house, he did in his prime come to acquire that 'digni…

１８３番です。 My father, as I say, came of a generation mercifully free of such confusion of our professional values. 今回は短い文です。分解の必要はなさそうです。 as I say は、「私が言うとき」、「私から言わせれば」、というような感じです。…

１８２番です。 In one regrettable case, which I myself witnessed, it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order, say, who had won the Darby in such and such y…

１８１番です。 I have heard of various instances of a butler being displayed as a kind of performing monkey at a house party. 今回は短い文です。が、やはり分解をしてみます。 ① I have heard of various instances of a butler ② being displayed …

１８０番です。 I am sorry to say this, but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times, some of the highest pedigree, which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above 'showi…

１７９番です。 Though we must be careful not to attmpt to deny the responsibility which ultimately lies with ourselves, it has to be said that certain employers have done much to encourage these sorts of trends. 文法上のトピックが多い面白…