よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 42: The Record of the Search
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Holmes names the captain as the gang’s leader and explains his method. He searched old shipping records and newspapers for vessels that matched the dates and ports. One American-sounding ship, the Lone Star, emerged from the evidence as his strongest lead.
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- という
- という links a quoted name, statement, or idea to the noun that follows. It can be translated as “called,” “that,” or “the idea that.”
- それで
- それで is used here as conjunction. In this context it means “so.”
- その
- その means “that” and modifies the noun that follows. It points back to a specific person, object, or idea already mentioned.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"And who is this Captain Calhoun?"
「それで、そのカルフーン船長とは誰なんだい」
"The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first."
「一味の首領だ。ほかの者も捕らえるが、まず彼だ」
"How did you trace it, then?"
「では、どうやって突き止めたんだ」
He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with dates and names.
彼はポケットから、日付と名前で埋まった大きな紙を取り出した。
"I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers and files of the old papers, following the future career of every vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were reported there during those months. Of these, one, the Lone Star, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union."
「一日じゅう」と彼は言った。「ロイズの船舶記録簿や古い新聞の綴りを調べ、八三年の一月と二月にポンディチェリーへ寄港した船を、残らずその後の足取りまで追った。その二か月に、相当な積載量のある船は三十六隻記録されていた。そのうちローン・スター号という一隻が、すぐ私の注意を引いた。ロンドンから出港したとされていたが、その名は合衆国の一州に付けられた名だからだ」