よみうち英語Read the classics by typingNotes Scene 4: Where He Has Gone
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Kate has reliable information that Isa has lately used an opium den in the far east of the City. His previous bouts ended within a day, but this time two days have passed. Unable to enter such a place alone, she begs for help.
Japanese in this scene
- 夕方には震えながらぼろぼろの状態で戻ってきていた
- 〜てきていた describes Isa's repeated return toward home. 震えながら shows that he was trembling as he came back.
- 薬物に取りつかれたまま
- The passive 取りつかれた portrays the drug as controlling Isa. まま says that this condition has continued unchanged.
- 必ずいると、彼女は確信していた
- 〜と確信していた reports the proposition Kate firmly believed: that Isa would certainly be at the Golden Bar.
- 確かな情報を、彼女は得ていた
- 得ていた means that Kate had already obtained the information and still possessed it when she came to Watson.
Full text: original English and Japanese translation
It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him?
それはできそうだった。最近、夫は発作的にアヘンを欲すると、シティの東の端にあるアヘン窟へ行くという確かな情報を、彼女は得ていた。これまではどれほどふけっても一日限りで、夕方には震えながらぼろぼろの状態で戻ってきていた。だが今度は四十八時間も薬物に取りつかれたままで、おそらく波止場のならず者たちに交じって横たわり、毒を吸うか、その効き目が抜けるまで眠るかしているのだ。アッパー・スワンダム横丁の「金の棒」に行けば必ずいると、彼女は確信していた。しかし、自分に何ができるというのか。若く気の弱い女性に、どうしてそんな場所へ乗り込み、ならず者に囲まれた夫を引き出すことができるだろう。