エデンの東（９５） ..———————【９５】————————————————————— They had a tool or a weapon that is also nearly gone, or perhaps it is only dormant for a while. It is argued that because they believed thotoughly in a just, moral God they could p…

エデンの東（９４） ..———————【９４】————————————————————— I don't know whether it was a divine stupidity or a greatfaith that let them do it. Surely such venture is nearlygone from the world. And the families did survive and grow. ————————…

エデンの東（９３） ..———————【９３】————————————————————— They landed with no money, no equipment, no tools, no credit, and particularly with no knowledge of the new country and no technique for using it.. ————————(訳)———————————————————— …

エデンの東（９２） ..———————【９２】————————————————————— It wasn't very long until all the land in the barren hills near King City and San Ardo was taken up, and ragged familieswere scattered through the hills, trying their best to scratc…

エデンの東（９１） ..———————【９１】————————————————————— They wanted more and more land——good land if possible,but land anyway. Perhaps they had filaments of memory offeudal Europe where great families became and remained greatbecause the…

エデンの東（９０） ———————〚第２節〛———————————————————— ..———————【９０】————————————————————— When people first came to the West, particularly from theowned and fought-over farmlets of Europe, and saw so muchland to be had for the signin…

エデンの東（８９） ———————【８９】————————————————————— She wore her hair always pulled tight back and bunnedbehind in a hard knot. And since I can't remember how shedressed, it must have been that she wore clothes that matchedherself exac…

エデンの東（８８） ———————【８８】————————————————————— Liza had a finely developed sense of sin. Idleness was a sin,and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She wassuspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing ore…

本日も意味がさっぱりわかりませんでした．あとで、話が食い違って来たら、また訂正に戻ってきます．とりあえず、この怪しい訳文をつけておきます．戦争中なら敵に傍受されても意味不明なのでたすかりますけど．．． エデンの東（８７） ———————【８７】————…

きょうも、さっぱりわからない英文でした。きっと皆さん方の方が正しいと思いますので、おかしい箇所は、無視して下さい． エデンの東（８６） ———————【８６】————————————————————— Lisa Hamilton was a very different kettle of Irish. Her headwas smal…

エデンの東（８５） ———————【８５】—————————————————————— Samuel kept always a foreignness. Perhaps it was in thecadence of his speech, and this had the effect of making men,and women too, tell him things they would not tell to relativesor …

エデンの東（８４） ———————【８４】—————————————————————— Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listendropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it*. ——…

エデンの東（８３） ———————【８３】—————————————————————— And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. ————————(訳)———————————————————— またサミュエルは身体が（道徳的に）清潔であるように、思惟…

エデンの東（８２） ———————【８２】—————————————————————— Samuel had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringingquiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul. ————————(訳)————————————————————…

きょうの訳も怪しいです．すみません．このきょうの文は前半で１つ、後半for 以下で１つ、合計２つの文で成っていて文意はそれぞれ、「ハミルトン家はラッキーだったか道徳がよくできていたにちがいない」と言っておいて、後半で、「というのは淋病や梅毒の…

エデンの東（８０） ———————【８０】—————————————— These are the used sections——broken bones, cuts, bruises, mumps, measles, backache, scarlet fever, diphtheria,rheumatism, female complains, hernia, and of courseeverything to do with pregnan…

エデンの東（７９） ———————【７９】—————————————— To look through Dr. Gunn is to know the Hamiltons' medical history. ————————(訳)——————————————— ゴン博士の本はざっと目を通せば、ハミルトン家の医療の歴史が見て取れる． ———————《語句》————————…

エデンの東（７８） ———————【７８】—————————————— Some pages were bent and beat up from use, and others werenever opened to the light. ————————(訳)——————————————— その本のページの幾つかの箇所は折り曲げられて、何度も見たために、よれよれだっ…

エデンの東（７７） ———————【７７】—————————————— Samuel had a great black book on an available shelf and ithad gold letters on the cover——Dr. Gunn's Family Medicine. ————————(訳)——————————————— サミュエルは大きな黒い本を手の届く棚に置いて…

投げ出したいけど、もう少しだけがんばってみます． エデンの東（７６） ———————【７６】—————————————— And he was equally good with mare, cow, or woman. ————————(訳)——————————————— そう、サミュエルは雌馬に対しても雌牛に対しても、また人間の女性…

エデンの東（７５） 前回はどうも誤訳だったようです．単語欄に書いたcome along ですが、ここでの意味は（この世に）やってくる、生まれるという意味で、この誕生というのは、人間のことも指していたようです．私の英語力では、この小説を正しく読むことは…

エデンの東（７４） ———————【７４】—————————————— The children came along as regularly as the years. The fewoverworked doctors of the county did not often get to theranches for a birth unless the joy turned nightmare and wenton for several …

エデンの東（７３） ———————————【７３】———————————————— Samuel should have been rich from his well rig and histhreshing machine and his shop, but he had no gift for business. His customers, always pressed for money, promised payment after h…

エデンの東（７２） ———————【７２】—————————————— It was a bad day when three or four men were not standing around the forge, listening to Samuel's hammer and his talk. They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home…

エデンの東（７１） ———————————【７１】———————————————— They brought whisky too, and out of sight of the kitchenwindow and the disapproving eye of Mrs. Hamilton theytook hot nips from the bottle and nibbled cuds of green wild anise to cover…

エデンの東（７０） ———————————【７０】———————————————— He had a rich deep voice, good both in song and in speech, and while he had no brogue there was a rise and a lilt and a cadence to his talk that made it sound sweet in the ears of the …

エデンの東（６９） ———————————【６９】———————————————— And in his shop he sharpened plows and mended harrows and welded broken axles and shod horses. Men from allover the district brought him tools to mend and to improve.Besides, they love…

エデンの東（６８） ———————————【６８】———————————————— His clever hands built a well-boring rig, and he boredwells on the lands of luckier men. He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, t…

エデンの東（６７） ———————————【６７】———————————————— He found quite soon that even if he had ten thousand acresof hill country he could not make a living on the bony soil without water. ————————————(訳)————————————————— やがてサミュエル…

エデンの東（６６） ———————————【６６】———————————————— Samuel built his house with his own hands, and he built a barn and a blacksmith shop. ————————————(訳)————————————————— サミュエルは、自分の家屋を自分の手で建てた．納屋も 蹄鉄作業所も…