よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 40: A Late Return
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Watson returns late from his professional work and finds Holmes still absent from Baker Street. Holmes finally arrives near ten o’clock, pale and exhausted after investigating without food all day. He eats bread and drinks water, then tells Watson that the search has succeeded.
Japanese in this scene
- ている
- The 〜ている form can show an action in progress, a continuing state, or the result of a completed action. The surrounding sentence decides which meaning applies.
- 一日
- 一日 means “all day” in 一日じゅう. The following じゅう makes the expression cover the whole period.
- じゅう
- じゅう after a period or place means “throughout” or “all through,” as in 一日じゅう, “all day.”
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, washing it down with a long draught of water.
一日じゅう診療の仕事に追われ、ベイカー街へ戻ったのは夜遅くなってからだった。ホームズはまだ帰っていなかった。彼が青白く疲れた顔で入ってきたのは、十時近くだった。脇の戸棚へ歩み寄ると、パンの塊から一片をちぎってむさぼり食べ、水をたっぷり飲んで流し込んだ。
"You are hungry," I remarked.
「腹がすいているんだね」と私は言った。
"Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since breakfast."
「飢え死にしそうだ。すっかり忘れていた。朝食以来、何も食べていない」
"Nothing?"
「何もかい」
"Not a bite. I had no time to think of it."
「一口も。考える暇もなかった」
"And how have you succeeded?"
「それで、首尾はどうだった」
"Well."
「うまくいった」
"You have a clue?"
「手掛かりをつかんだのかい」