ハーバード 成績がいいだけのアジア系アメリカ人は認めない
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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
http://time.com/5546463/harvard-admissions-trial-asian-american-students/ ８ 憂鬱な月曜日
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 ９ 自分の話題にひっぱりたい！
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. 10
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. １１
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. 12
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. 13
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. 17
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. 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. アメリカは白人キリスト教徒のために作られた国だから仕方ない 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. >>103
この英文はアマゾンのレビューでいろいろ言われてて気になったので訳してみました。
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「私が最近体験したのだが、自分の古着を着ている人の後ろを歩くのは興味深い。
（自分の姿を見るのだが、そうしたら自分の生き写しを見ることになるだろう。？）
そのスーツを後ろから初めて見たのはその時が初めてだった。まず漠然とした親しみがこ
み上げてきたのだが、それからそれがどれほど快適で紳士然としたコートだったか、どれ
ほど着やすかったか、そしてどれほど長いあいだ所持していたかが思い出され、およそ人
が所持しうる最高に優れた服一式を手放してしまったことを後悔しつつ感じ取った。」
2行目のYou have a vision of yourself, or, if you will, a glimpse of your double.がわからないです。
あなたのダブルをちらっと見る？
*doubleは生き写しの人・モノ？
他にもいろいろ間違ってるかもですが。 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.
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行方訳
最近あったことなのだが、自分の古着を着た人の背後を歩く、というのは奇妙な経験だ。自
分の姿、あるいはこう言ってよければ、自分の生き写しの姿をちらっと見るのだから、服を
後ろから眺めるのは初めてだったから、自分のだと分かる前に、漠然とした見たことあるな
という感覚があった。自分の服だと分かって、柄をしげしげ眺めていると、どれほど親切で
愛想のいい服だったかとか、手足の動きがどんなに楽でのびのびしていたかとか、今後まだ
ずっと長く使えたのにとか、あれこれ思い出した。およそ人が所有しうる最高に高潔な服を
手放したのに気付き、心が痛んだ レビューにある指摘
人の着る服が親切で愛想がいいとか高潔だとかいう訳に首を傾げない人はいないと思います。「擬人化」すればありうるかもしれませんが、この文章はそのような趣旨ではないと思います。
たとえば kindlyには「（肌ざわりが）快適な」といった訳が見つかるはずです。「着心地が良い」といった訳でも良さそうです。noble も、「（品質が）優れた、上質な」という意味があります
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
ランダムハウス英和大辞典（「（古）自由民にふわわしい；（特に）紳士階級の、紳士にふさわしい」）
「sorrowfully」の箇所を、生徒は「悲しかった」と訳し、先生は「心が痛んだ」とされていますが、
これも「悔やむ、残念がる」のほうがここではピッタリではないか、というのがわたしの意見です。
最後の noble も「高貴な」とか「品位のある」あたりが案外ピッタリかもしれません。 >>110
検討する箇所
・（自分の姿を見るのだが、そうしたら自分の生き写しを見ることになるだろう。？）
・そしてどれほど長いあいだ所持していたかが思い出され、
まああくまで自分の解釈ですが
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
訳文に関しては直訳好きのひともいれば意訳好きのひともいるのでいろいろ意見はあるでしょうねえ
この本文法解釈の説明がほとんどないので 一定の解釈力ないと読み通せないですね
帯に「英文和訳対策にいいらしいわよ。」て宣伝文句あって何人かが推薦文出してるらしいけど
英文解釈や和訳というか意訳、翻訳の本って気がする 検討箇所の追加
a vague sense of familiarity preceded recognition
・まず漠然とした親しみがこみ上げてきたのだが
recognition
（知っているものと）わかること 認めること（ランダムハウス）
ここでは あ、これ自分の服だ、と分かること
親近感が自分の服だと認識する前に生じた（解釈につよくなるための英文５０）
「私が愛用していたスーツだと分かったのだ」（解釈につよくなるための英文５０） >>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。 >帯に「英文和訳対策にいいらしいわよ。」
どこがやねん、という突っ込みを忘れてた保守 >>41
これから書き記すことを信じてほしいとも信じてくれとも言うまい。きわめて狂暴で
ありながら家庭的でもあるこの物語を。自分が理性でもってありえないと判断したことを
信じてくれというのは正気の沙汰ではないかもしれない。だが断っておくが私は狂っては
いないし、ましてや夢を見ているわけでもない。ただ明日死にゆく身なので今日のうちに
肩の荷を下ろしたいのだ。
*訳というか意味がとれてるか確認。単語の意味は少し違う場合もあります。 >>43
1)
ニュートンが部屋のドアを開けると書類がすっかり燃え尽きたところで、20年来の苦労が
ただの灰の山に帰したことを悟った。そこにはいたずらの張本人であるダイアモンドがち
ょこんと立っていた。たいがいの人であれば即刻処刑を言い渡すだろう。だがニュートン
は悲しみながらもいつも通り犬の頭をやさしく撫でてやった。
「ダイアモンドよ。」ニュートンは朗々と言った。「かくのごとき小さき者は自分が成した
ことの自覚はあるか。」 >>44
2)
私が若くて多感だったころ父があるアドバイスをくれたのだが、以来ことあるごとに思い
出す。「誰かを批判したくなった時は、世界中の人がお前と同じアドバンテージを持ってい
るわけじゃないことを思い出しなさい。」父はそれしか言わなかったが、父と私はいつも極
度に控えめな会話しかしなかったから、父がその言葉以上のものを伝えようとしたのは理
解できた。結果として私は人を批判するのを保留する癖がついたのだが、この癖のおかげ
で多くの面白い人たちと打ち解けられたし、つまらない大人にならずに済んだ。 ↑は間違ってたり、単語の意味やその他、英文とは異なる場合があります。
全部訳してから解釈に強くなるための英文50を買って確認しようと思います。
普段参考書をやってるときは秒速で答えや解説を見てしまうため。 >>125
和訳スレ見たら真ん中へんと最後が逆だった…
行方訳
僕がもっと若く、物に感じやすかったころ、父がある助言をしてくれたが、ずっと気になっている。
「だれかを批判したい気持になったときはいつでも、
世間の人はお前のように恵まれた環境で育ったとは限らないということを、ちゃんと思い出すがいい」
父はそれだけしかいわなかったが、父と僕はべたべたした関係ではなかったけれど、
父と息子には珍しいくらい相互に分かり合っていたから、父が言葉以上のことを意味しているのが理解できた。
その結果、僕はあらゆる批判を控えるようになっている。この習性のせいで、僕は何人もの変な人物を近づけたり、
名うての退屈人間の餌食にもなった 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」 私がまだ若く傷つきやすかった頃、父親がある忠告を与えてくれた。それ以来、私はたえずその忠告を頭のなかでくり返してきた。
「誰かを批判したくなったら」と父は言った。「世の中の人すべてがお前と同じ良い条件に恵まれているわけではない、ということを思い出しなさい」
父はそれ以上何も言わなかった。だが、少ない会話でも十分に通じ合えるような親子だったので、父が言外にずっと多くを意味していることは理解できた。
結果として、私はあらゆる批判を差し控えるようになった。こうした癖は多くの風変わりな人物を近づけるだけでなく、人をうんざりさせるのが得意な連中を少なからず引き寄せた。 確認せずに投稿したんで写し間違いあるかもしれん... >>123
my very sensesのとりかたがいい気がする
たぶんunberthenはunburthenをスペルミスした投稿
>>124
littleはおそらく 副詞
>>125
in a reserved wayでcommunicativeだった 口数少なくても分かり合えた >>132
ありがとうございます。
123のsenseは知性とか判断力の意味で取りましたが、この意味は普通は単数形みたいです
ね。one’s sensesで正気とか正常な意識という意味が見つかりました。
124のlittleはほとんど知らない、ですね。セリフの単語の意味が分かりづらいので軽く流
してしまいました。
>unusually communicative
ここはなぜか「普通じゃないほどコミュニケーションをとってない」と考えてしまいました。
最後の結論が真逆なのは、普通受験に出てくる英文だと親や教師のアドバイスがあったら
後々ハッピーになるのがテンプレなので先入観でミスしてしまいました。 >>54は和訳スレでやったのでパス
>>55
この英文は参考書で何度か見た。
和訳スレでネットにあった訳コピペしたけど自力でやり直し。
4 最初に読者をひきつける！
人間はみな平等であるという宣言は、平時ならまともな人間が決してしないものである。
これから危険な手術を受ける人は、ある医師が他の医師と同じくらい腕がいいと想定して
行動するわけではない。それに公務員を必要とするときは、最も民主的な政府でさえ、理
論的には平等な国民から注意深く選出する。それゆえ平時なら人間が平等ではないと完全
に確信している。しかし民主主義国で人が考え行動するときは、同様にはっきりと人間は
平等であると確信している。 >>58
5．頭がいいだけでは…
愚かにも傲慢だった私は、以前は人の価値を知能と学識で判断したものだった。論理のな
いところや学習のないところには何の価値も見いだせなかった。だが今は頭脳の知性と精
神の知性という二種類の知性を区別しなければならず、精神の知性は頭脳の知性よりはる
かに重要だとみなすようになった。 >>59
6．イギリス人の国民性
イングランドに関する一般的な認識で、ほとんど誰もが受け入れるものがいくつかある。
一つはイギリス人には芸術の才能がないということである。彼らはドイツ人やイタリア人
ほど音楽の才能はないし、彫刻や絵画にしてもフランスのように花を咲かせることはなか
った。もう一つはヨーロッパ人の標準に照らして知的ではないということである。イギリ
ス人は抽象的な思考をひどく嫌っていて、哲学や体系的な世界観は必要ないと感じて
いる。
*”world-view” …ダブルクオーテーションマークがついてる意味要確認 >>60
7．学生時代は本当に幸福？
人生の中で学生時代が一番幸せだったという人がいる。それは正しいかもしれないが、
そういうことを言う人を私はいつも疑いの目で見る。今が一番幸せかどうかを十分に知る
のは難しいし、人生の様々な時期の相対的な幸福度を比較するのはさらに難しい。言える
のはせいぜい、はっきり不幸だと自覚しているのでなければまあまあ幸せなのだというこ
とくらいだ。 >>62
8．憂鬱な月曜日
一週間には七つの曜日があるのに「月曜病」という言葉しかないのは奇妙なことだ。なに
も月曜日だけが肯定的で特有の性格を有しているわけではないのに。なぜ「火曜病の」「水
曜病の」はないのか？「火曜病」「水曜病」という言葉だって私にとっては同じくらい重要
な意味を持つだろうし、「木曜病」という言葉は特にそうだ。週始めという月曜日の主要で
非難すべき落ち度は、木曜日の完全な単調さに比べたら美徳に等しい。週を始めるという
のは落ち度でも何でもないのだが慣例によってそう決めつけられてしまった。始めるとい
うことは高潔な行動である。しかし続くということは愚鈍な行動であり、勇気ある先駆者
の追従者になることであり、週の二日目になることであり、これすなわち火曜日であり、
なんだったら嘆かわしいと言ってもいい。
*辞書の単語の意味そのままではないです。
* ビジネスウィークをウィークとしているため二日目が火曜日なのだと思う。ただ日本で
は週の始めが日曜か月曜かあまり意識してないような気がするのでそのまま。日本やアメ
リカでは日曜日が、ヨーロッパでは月曜日が週の始まりらしい。
*最後の方の数行やらかしてる悪寒、要確認。 ↑「〜曜病の」の「の」は取る
>>63
9．自分の話題にひっぱりたい！
こういう人は多いのだが、話したいことが沢山あるがゆえ他の人をまったく気にかけず輪
の中に入ってくる人がいる。知り合いに銃の話題を持っている人がいたのだが、彼はそれ
はいいものだと考えていたし話すのもうまかった。彼は何が何でも話題を銃へと持ってい
こうとした。しかしこの試みがうまくいかないと椅子に座って行動を開始する。銃声だ！
と彼が言い、周囲の者たちがそんな音はしなかったときっぱり言う。すると、ああ、気の
せいか、だけど銃の話になってるのだから、と言って銃の話をし始め、一同をひどく憤ら
せるのだった。 >>131
問題ないです！英文に疑問を感じたら原文をググって英文だけ見ます。
もしネットになかったらごまかすなり飛ばすなりして訳します。
厳密な訳ではなくて大体の意味みたいな訳になってますが。 >>67
10. 羊飼いの名犬
当時、私たちがいつも一緒にいて遊んでいたのは一頭の犬で、その姿は決して記憶から薄
れることがない。というのも彼の外観や性格が非常に印象深いものだったからだ。彼はか
なり不思議な登場の仕方で私たちの前に現れた。ある夏の夕方、家のシェパードが羊の群
れの周りを疾走し、盛んに吠えながらノロノロ歩く羊を帰らせようとしていた。
すると突然、少し見た目の変わった犬が雲がちぎれて落ちてきたかのように現れ、びっこ
を引きつつきびきびと慌てふためく羊を追って一直線に帰らせ、囲いへと追い込んだので
ある。その後、彼は夕食にありついたのだが、才能を示したことによりこの家に納まり、
かく迎え入れられたのだった。
*establish oneself 場所、職業、地位などに落ち着く、納まる >>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. 12は既にやったのでパス
>>74
13. 車？馬車？
恰幅のいい老婦人が手籠を下げて通りの真ん中をペトログラードへと歩いていた。そのせ
いで交通が大混乱しているのに、彼女自身はどこ吹く風といった調子だった。「歩行者には
歩道があるだろ」と誰かが言うと彼女は「私は私が歩きたい所を歩きます。私たちはもう
自由なのよ。」と言い返した。この老婦人には、歩行者が通りの真ん中を歩いてもいいのが
自由というものならば、タクシー運転手が歩道を運転するのも自由というものであり、そ
んな自由はみんなが大混乱するだけだということが思い浮かばなかったのである。誰もが
他の誰かの邪魔になり、誰もどこへもたどり着けない。自分勝手な自由は社会を無秩序
にしてしまう。 >>141
shepherd 羊飼い
>>142
have no ear for music. 音楽がわからない 音痴 >>144
ありがとうございます。訳しててなんで犬がshouting？とは思ったのですが擬人法っぽいなにかかなと
あまり深くは考えず通過してしまいました。 >>75
14．読書は悪徳？
他のあらゆる良いことのように、読書であっても適量というものあがる。読書は過度に熱
中すると悪になるが、この悪は悪と認識されない分だけ余計に危険である。それでも過度
な読書は本来受けるべき非難を受けることがない唯一の過度な行いである。
*indulge ふける、熱中する
*self indulgence 好き放題（すること）、自堕落
*to excess 過度に >>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
フィリップは、今頭に浮かんだ懐疑的なものの見方を、むしろ解放感をもって受け入れることができた（行方訳） >>149
ありがとうございます。一応全部訳してから本を買うつもりですが、疑問点ははやり
早く知りたいので助かります。あまり時間がたってから見ても、へー(ﾟσ_ﾟ) ﾎｼﾞﾎｼﾞみたいになりそうでｗ >>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.
アメリカを旅行中のヨーロッパ人は、少なくとも私が判断する限り二つの奇妙な点に驚く。
一つ目はアメリカはどの地域もそっくりだという点で、二つ目はめいめいの地域が自分た
ちの地域は固有で他とは違うのだと躍起になって証明しようとしている点である。この二
つ目はもちろん一つ目が原因である。どの地域も地元が誇りを持つための理由を欲しがっ
ていて、それゆえ地理、歴史、伝統の点で特色のあるものは何であれ大事にする。全体が
そっくりであればあるほど（これは逃れられない事実である）、その画一さを和らげるべき
違いを一生懸命探すのである。 >>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.
しばしば気づくことであるが、誰かが電話してきたときに部屋にいなくて、戻ったら至急
電話ください、重要なことですから、と伝言を残すのだが、その用件は自分ではなく先方
にとって重要だということがしばしばある。プレゼントをしたり何かいいことをしたりす
るということになると、人はじれったさを節度ある範囲内に抑えることができるのに、で
ある。
*within reasonable bounds 節度ある範囲内では
>and it’s important 電話してきた相手の言葉の一部だと思いますがit’sは何を指すのか
が？？
*一文目と二文目のつながりが自信ないです。 >>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.
私は19歳の時以来、一時期を除いて現代人としては最大限に孤独な生活を送ってきた。何
が言いたいかというと私が一人で積み重ねてきた時間、日、月、年は途方もない計り知れ
ないものだったということだ。だから私が知る通りの孤独な経験というものを書き連ねる
つもりだ。私の人生の信念は、孤独というものは私や一部の独りぼっちに限られた奇異な
現象では決してなく、人間の人生において中心となる避けがたい現実だという考えに基づ
いている。 >>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.
ある日、彼に幸運が舞い降りた。千一夜物語とたまたま出会ったのである。まず挿絵に惹
かれ、それから魔法を扱った物語を読みはじめ、以降ほかの種類の本も読むようになった。
気にいった本は繰り返し読んだ。他のとこは考えられなかった。彼はこの世で最も喜ばし
い読書という習慣を徐々に身に付けていった。そうして知らぬ間に人生のあらゆる苦悩か
ら逃避できる隠れ家を得たのだが、同時に現実の日常が残念なことだらけに思えてくる非
現実世界も築き上げていた。 >>147
訂正
who had been in America some years previously
↓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↓へ
私と出会う数年前にアメリカに行ったことがある人 ＞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）
＞the others
他の物語
＞those he liked
気に入った物語 >>156
ご指摘ありがとうございます。このasは崩したらダメですよね。 >>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.
21．鳥がこわがる毛虫
新聞は国会がらみの記事がないときこそとても面白い。今日とある記事を見つけた。紙面
が国会がらみでにぎわっているときには決して注目されなさそうな記事だが、妙に感動し
た。これがそれで、チャルマーズ・ミッチェル博士の権威によって裏付けられている。「プ
ス・モスのイモムシは自らの安全を確保するのに自然界にあるものだけでは満足せず、若
い鳥に向かって顔をしかめて見せる。これは若い鳥を大いに怖がらせると言われている。」
私は「言われている」の部分が気に入った。若い鳥は憤然として怖がったことを否定する
だろう。そして立ち去った理由を説明し、急にクロケットの約束があったことを思い出し
ただけとか、傘を忘れてたいたことを思い出しただけだと言うかもしれない。しかしイモ
ムシが若い鳥を怖がらせようが怖がらせまいが、プス・モスが若い鳥に向かって顔をしか
めて見せたという事実は変わらない。たとえプス・モスが自己防衛のためにしかめっ面を
始めたのだとしても、その習性はプス・モスが次第に身に付けたものだということはかな
りはっきりしている。
*puss-moth 写真を見ると先端部に顔上の模様があるだけなので擬人法ですね、鳥と同じく。 >>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.
22．サクラは苦手
私はかつてラジオでスピーチをしたことがある。スタジオに入ると年齢や服装など幅広く
取りそろえた15名ほどの人が険しい表情で壁際に腰かけていた。最初、私が番組を進める
時にコーラスを入れたりベルを鳴らしたりする係の人かと思ったが、アナウンサーによる
とその人たちはリスナーで、彼が合図を送るたびに笑い声をあげたり拍手したりするとの
ことだった。そうすることで、ラジオランドで聞いている大勢のリスナーが歓声に聞き耳
を立てるのだそうだ。こうした仕掛けのせいでは私は緊張した。そのうえ、笑いを専門に
やる人たちが瞬間的、本能的に私を嫌いになったのが感じられた。
*my larger audience in radioland would think that they were listening in on a wow
この部分が謎でした
*listen in on 聞き耳を立てる、盗聴する？
*wow （ワオ！と叫ぶほどの）大成功？ >>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.
23． メガネのたくらみ
私はどこへ行くにもたくさんのメガネを手放さない。読書用、遠くを見る用、予備の一対
の片眼鏡も一緒。どこへ行くにも一緒だ。全部を壊すなら地震か電車事故でも起きる必要
がある。メガネを全部なくすようなときは、ぼんやりしていたどころではなく、白痴の段
階である。その上たくさんの予備があるとさらに安全な点がある。この点については誰が
疑えようか。？は科学者がうそぶくように中立ではなく、やや悪意を持ち、人類に敵対す
る悪魔の側に立っている。そうであるので、一つのメガネは、どうしてもメガネがないと
困るとき、そして代わりのメガネが手に入らないときに、必ず勝手に壊れたり無くなった
りする。しかしいわゆる無機質は馬鹿ではない。ポケットやスーツケースに他に二つ三つ
一つのメガネがあることを知ると、一つのメガネはこの勝負には見込みがないことを悟り、
壊れたり無くなったりすることは決してなく、苦労してそのままでいるのである。
*メガネは一つしかないときは勝手に壊れるくせに、他にも予備がたくさんあるときは壊れ
ずそのまま残っている天邪鬼な奴だ、ということを擬人法で書いている文章だと思います。
*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。
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