よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 43: Following the Ports
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Records show that the Lone Star also visited Dundee at the relevant time and has recently been in London. These matches confirm Holmes’s suspicion. Further inquiries reveal that the ship has already sailed, allowing him to estimate its present position.
Japanese in this scene
- について
- について means “about; concerning.” It attaches to the topic being discussed or investigated.
- テキサス
- テキサス is used here as noun. In this context it means “Texas.”
- 思う
- 思う means “to think” or “to believe.” Here it introduces the speaker’s own judgment rather than an established fact.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
"Texas, I think."
「テキサスだと思うね」
"I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must have an American origin."
「どの州かは、そのときも今も確信がない。だが、その船はアメリカに由来するはずだとは分かった」
"What then?"
「それから」
"I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Lone Star was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present in the port of London."
「ダンディーの記録を調べ、八五年一月にバーク型帆船ローン・スター号がそこにいたと分かったとき、疑いは確信に変わった。次に、現在ロンドン港にいる船について問い合わせた」
"Yes?"
「それで」
"The Lone Star had arrived here last week. I went down to the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight."
「ローン・スター号は先週着いていた。アルバート・ドックへ行くと、今朝の早い潮で川を下り、サヴァンナへ帰国の途についたと分かった。グレイヴズエンドへ電報を打ち、少し前に通過したと知った。東風だから、今はグッドウィン砂州を過ぎ、ワイト島からそれほど遠くない所にいるはずだ」