よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 55: The Doctor's Room
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Holmes and Watson enter Roylott's room and find the doctor seated motionless beside the partly open safe. A shaded lantern throws light across the strange scene, and a looped dog-whip rests on his knees. Around Roylott's forehead appears a peculiar yellow band marked with brown speckles. He makes no sound or movement as Holmes identifies the speckled band.
Japanese in this scene
- それから取っ手を回して中に入った
- それから continues the immediate sequence: Holmes next turns the handle and enters Roylott's room.
- 巻きつけられている
- 巻きつけられている makes the yellow band appear tightly wound around Roylott's head, before its true nature as a coiled snake is revealed.
- 異様な光景だった
- だった is the past form of だ. Watson identifies what met their eyes as an extraordinary sight.
- 飛び込んできた
- 目に飛び込んできた describes the scene as striking their sight at once when they enter, emphasizing its immediate and shocking visual impact.
Background
- dressing-gown と Turkish slippers
- Victorian gentlemen wore long indoor gowns in the evening. Backless pointed Turkish slippers were fashionable imported-style footwear and add an eastern touch to Roylott's room.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand.
ホームズは厳しい顔でランプをともし、廊下を先に立って進んだ。彼は部屋の扉を二度叩いたが、中からは何の返事もなかった。それから取っ手を回して中に入った。私は撃鉄を起こした拳銃を手に、すぐ後ろに続いた。
It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion.
私たちの目に飛び込んできたのは、異様な光景だった。テーブルの上には遮光ランタンがあり、覆いが半分開いて、鉄の金庫にまばゆい光の筋を投げかけていた。その金庫の扉は少し開いている。このテーブルのそば、木の椅子に、グリムズビー・ロイロット博士が座っていた。長い灰色の部屋着をまとい、むき出しの足首がその下からのぞき、足には、かかとのない赤いトルコ風スリッパをつっかけている。膝の上には、昼間に私たちが目にとめた、長い鞭のついた短い柄が横たわっていた。あごは上を向き、目は恐ろしくこわばったまなざしで天井の隅を見据えている。額のまわりには、茶色がかった斑点のある奇妙な黄色い紐があり、それが頭にきつく巻きつけられているように見えた。私たちが入っても、彼は音も立てず、身動きもしなかった。
"The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes.
「紐だ！ まだらの紐だ！」とホームズはささやいた。