よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 25: Out into the Frost
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Convinced that Baker is innocent, Holmes leads Watson through the frozen streets to pursue the goose's source at the Alpha Inn. 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.
Japanese in this scene
- 身を切るように寒い夜だったので
- In 身を切るように寒い夜だったので, ので presents the preceding clause as the reason for what follows.
- あの男がこの件について何ひとつ知らないことは
- In あの男がこの件について何ひとつ知らないことは, について marks the preceding noun as the topic being discussed.
- 身を切るように寒い夜だったので
- In 身を切るように寒い夜だったので, だった is the plain past copula and identifies what the preceding noun or description was.
- 小さな酒場である
- In 小さな酒場である, 小さな modifies the following noun as small; it is used only before a noun.
Background
- ulster
- An ulster was a long, heavy overcoat named after the Irish province, often belted and worn for winter travel.
- private bar
- Public houses were often divided into separate rooms. A private bar offered a quieter, slightly more comfortable space than the ordinary public bar.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?"
「ヘンリー・ベイカー氏のほうは、これでよし」と、客が出ていってドアが閉まると、ホームズは言った。「あの男がこの件について何ひとつ知らないことは、まず間違いない。腹は減っているかね、ワトソン」
"Not particularly."
「いや、それほどでも」
"Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow up this clue while it is still hot."
「では、夕食を夜食に回して、この手がかりが熱いうちに追ってみようじゃないか」
"By all means."
「ぜひそうしよう」
It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
身を切るように寒い夜だったので、私たちはアルスター外套を着込み、首にはクラヴァットを巻きつけた。外では、雲ひとつない空に星が冷たく輝き、道行く人々の吐く息は、ピストルを次々に撃ったときの煙のように白く噴き出していた。医者の多い界隈、ウィンポール街、ハーリー街を足早に抜け、さらにウィグモア街を通ってオックスフォード街へ出るあいだ、私たちの足音はさえた響きを高らかに立てていた。十五分後、私たちはブルームズベリーのアルファ亭にいた。ホウボーンへと下っていく通りの一つの角にある、小さな酒場である。ホームズは特別室のドアを押し開け、赤ら顔で白いエプロンをつけた主人に、ビールを二杯注文した。