よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 35: At the Farmhouse
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The comfortable farmhouse looks subdued, with lowered blinds and smokeless chimneys. At Holmes's request, the maid brings the dead man's boots and a pair belonging to his son, though the latter are not the ones worn during the incident. Holmes measures them carefully, then asks to see the yard before following the path toward the pool.
Japanese in this scene
- 住み心地のよさそうな
- 住み心地 means comfort as a place to live. よさそう is the appearance form of よい: it looks comfortable, rather than being something the narrator has personally lived in and tested.
- 履いていたものではなかった
- もの stands in for the boots already mentioned. The modifying clause 履いていた identifies those worn at the relevant time, and ではなかった explicitly says the displayed pair was different.
- 案内してほしい
- Verb in the て form + ほしい expresses wanting someone else to do something. Holmes asks for another person's guidance rather than saying that he himself wants to guide the party.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool.
「ああ、あれだ」広々とした、住み心地のよさそうな二階建ての建物で、屋根は粘板岩、灰色の壁には黄色い地衣類の大きな斑が広がっていた。だが、下ろされたブラインドと煙の立たない煙突は、あの惨事の重みがまだのしかかっているような、打ちひしがれた印象を与えていた。戸口を訪ねると、女中はホームズの頼みで、主人が死んだときに履いていたブーツと、息子のブーツも一足見せてくれた。もっとも、息子のほうは、あのとき履いていたものではなかった。これらを七、八か所からたいへん念入りに測ったあと、ホームズは中庭へ案内してほしいと頼んだ。そこから私たちは皆、ボスコム池へ続く曲がりくねった小道をたどった。