よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 60: Words of Farewell
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Turner leaves with thanks for the peace granted to his final days. Holmes reflects on human weakness and grace. Watson records that James was acquitted on objections Holmes supplied to the defense. Turner lived another seven months, while the younger pair seemed likely to find happiness without learning the dark past surrounding their families.
Japanese in this scene
- 言わずにはいられない
- 〜ずにはいられない means ‘cannot help doing.’ The older negative ず combines with the negative potential of いる, expressing an inward compulsion to say the words rather than a practical obligation.
- 根拠に
- Noun + を根拠に means ‘on the basis of.’ Here the objections supplied to the defense provide the stated grounds for the acquittal, linking the outcome to Holmes's written work.
- 見込みが十分にある
- 見込み means prospect or likelihood. 十分にある conveys a good chance, not an accomplished fact. Watson ends with a hopeful expectation about the young people's future rather than reporting a completed marriage.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room.
「では、お別れです」と老人は厳かに言った。「いつかあなた方にも臨終の時が来たなら、私の最期に平安を与えてくださったことを思い、より安らかでいられるでしょう」大きな体をよろめかせ震わせながら、彼はゆっくりと、つまずくように部屋を出ていった。
"God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'"
「神よ、我々をお助けください」と、長い沈黙のあと、ホームズは言った。「運命は、どうして哀れで無力な虫けらに、こんないたずらをするのだろう。このような事件を聞くたびに、バクスターの言葉を思い、『神のお恵みがなければ、あそこへ行くのはシャーロック・ホームズなのだ』と言わずにはいられないよ」
James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their past.
ジェームズ・マッカーシーは、ホームズが書き起こして弁護人へ提出した数々の異議を根拠に、巡回裁判で無罪となった。老ターナーは私たちと会ってから七か月生きたが、今はもう亡くなっている。そして息子と娘は、それぞれの過去にかかる黒雲を知らずに、幸せに暮らすようになる見込みが十分にある。