よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 36: After the Little Man
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Holmes follows the frightened stranger, catches him in the crowd, and offers help with his questions about the geese. 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
- これでブリクストン・ロードまで出向く手間が省けるかもしれないぞ
- In これでブリクストン・ロードまで出向く手間が省けるかもしれないぞ, まで marks the preceding item as the endpoint or outer limit reached in this statement.
- ほう
- Here ほう is an interjection used to show impressed interest, like ‘oh’ or ‘indeed,’ rather than the noun meaning a side or direction.
- これでブリクストン・ロードまで出向く手間が省けるかもしれないぞ
- In これでブリクストン・ロードまで出向く手間が省けるかもしれないぞ, かも combines with しれない to express possibility rather than certainty.
- この男から何が引き出せるか
- In この男から何が引き出せるか, この points to the specific nearby or currently discussed noun that follows.
Background
- gas-light
- Victorian streets and markets were lit by wavering gas lamps. The little man's pallor is so extreme that Holmes can see it even in their dim light.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of colour had been driven from his face.
「ほう！ これでブリクストン・ロードまで出向く手間が省けるかもしれないぞ」とホームズはささやいた。「一緒に来たまえ。この男から何が引き出せるか、確かめてみよう」明かりの燃え立つ屋台のまわりにたむろする、ところどころの人だかりを大股で抜けて、私の友はたちまち小男に追いつき、その肩に手を触れた。男はぱっと振り向いた。ガス灯の明かりの中でも、その顔からすっかり血の気が引いているのが私には見てとれた。
"Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering voice.
「いったい、あなたは誰です？何の用です？」と彼は震える声で尋ねた。
"You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. I think that I could be of assistance to you."
「失礼ですが」とホームズは穏やかに言った。「いまあなたが商人にしていた質問が、つい耳に入ってしまいましてね。私ならお力になれると思うのですよ」
"You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?"
「あなたが？あなたは誰なんです？どうしてこの件のことが分かるんです？」