よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 37: A Man Seeking Geese
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Notes on this scene
Holmes recites the goose's entire route, delighting the stranger, and asks his name before calling a cab. 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
- あなたこそ
- In あなたこそ, こそ places strong contrastive emphasis on the item it follows.
- 指を震わせながら叫んだ
- In 指を震わせながら叫んだ, ながら links the action before it with the action or state that follows.
- でしょう
- Here でしょう is the polite conjectural form of です, asking for or expressing a likely judgment rather than certainty.
- それなら、こんな吹きさらしの
- In それなら、こんな吹きさらしの, それなら introduces a conclusion or proposal based on the condition just stated.
Background
- four-wheeler
- A four-wheeler was an enclosed cab with room for several passengers and luggage, slower but roomier than a two-wheeled hansom.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."
「私の名はシャーロック・ホームズです。人の知らないことを知るのが、私の仕事なのですよ」
"But you can know nothing of this?"
「でも、この件のことは何もご存じないはずでしょう？」
"Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. Henry Baker is a member."
「失礼ですが、すべて知っていますよ。あなたが行方を追っているのは、ブリクストン・ロードのオークショット夫人からブレッキンリッジという商人へ、今度はその商人からアルファ亭のウィンディゲイト氏へ、さらにウィンディゲイト氏からヘンリー・ベイカー氏が会員になっている積立会へと売られていったガチョウでしょう」
"Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter."
「ああ、旦那、あなたこそ、私がずっとお会いしたかった方です」と、小男は両手を差し出し、指を震わせながら叫んだ。「この件に私がどれほど気をもんでいるか、とても言い表せません」
Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting."
シャーロック・ホームズは、通りかかった四輪馬車を呼び止めた。「それなら、こんな吹きさらしの市場ではなく、居心地のいい部屋で話し合ったほうがいいでしょう」と彼は言った。「ですが、先へ進む前に、私がお手伝いする光栄にあずかるのはどなたなのか、教えていただけますか」