よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 7: What Holmes Infers
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Holmes begins reading the owner's intelligence, former prosperity, decline, and troubled home life from the hat. The scene establishes this development clearly and closes before the next step begins, preserving the original passage's order and the limits of what the characters know at this point.
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- 推論を引き出すのに
- In 推論を引き出すのに, のに follows the dictionary-form verb and means ‘for drawing an inference.’ It states the task for which Watson is too timid, not an unexpected contrast.
- 思ったほど多くを語ってはくれないかもしれないが
- In 思ったほど多くを語ってはくれないかもしれないが, ほど sets the degree or extent expressed by the surrounding description.
- それどころか、ワトソン、きみに
- In それどころか、ワトソン、きみに, それどころか rejects the preceding expectation and replaces it with a stronger contrary fact.
- それでも、とてもはっきりした
- In それでも、とてもはっきりした, それでも introduces a result that still holds despite the preceding fact.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."
「それどころか、ワトソン、きみには何もかも見えているのだよ。ただ、見たものから筋道を立てて考えることができていない。推論を引き出すのに、気が小さすぎるのだ」
"Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?"
「じゃあ、この帽子から何が推し量れるのか、ぜひ教えてくれないか？」
He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that his wife has ceased to love him."
彼は帽子を取り上げ、いかにも彼らしい、自分の内をのぞき込むような独特のまなざしで、じっと見つめた。「思ったほど多くを語ってはくれないかもしれないが」と彼は言った。「それでも、とてもはっきりした推論がいくつかあるし、少なくともかなり確からしいと言える推論もいくつかある。この男がたいへん頭のよい人物であることは、もちろん一目でわかる。それに、いまでは落ちぶれているが、この三年のうちはかなり裕福だったこともだ。先見の明があったのに、いまは以前ほどではない。これは品行が落ちたことを示しており、暮らし向きが傾いたことと考え合わせると、何かよくない影響、おそらくは酒が、彼をむしばんでいるようだ。妻がもう彼を愛していないという明らかな事実も、それで説明がつくだろう」
"My dear Holmes!"
「おいおい、ホームズ！」