新Jay's時事英語研究

実際の翻訳案件ではよく見かけるものの、一般の辞書や規範文法書ではなかなか理解できない用法などを集めて解説します。 加えて、辞書では見出語だけで例文がないものも集めて用例解説します。

2023-05-01から1ヶ月間の記事一覧

guess の用法_38_名詞の連語_5_have another guess coming

本日は have another guess coming. の用法を扱います。 ・But if you think the wife didn't turn the world upside down, you have another guess coming. Off she ran to the director to convince him that the boy really could do it; just give him a…

guess の用法_37_名詞の連語_4_at a guess/by guess_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・The OED glosses the expression by guess as “at haphazard, by rough estimation instead of calculation or measurement; by conjecture, without having proofs”. (OEDはby guessという表現を「計算や計測の代わりに、行…

guess の用法_36_名詞の連語_3_at a guess/by guess_1

本日からは at a guess/by guess の用法を扱います。 ・At a guess, it's about twenty by twenty feet. There is a builtup section in the corner with a door. The tunnel continues on past the room. Dad glances at me before he steps forward and ge…

guess の用法_35_名詞の連語_2_anybody's[anyone's] guess_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・We know that the Battle of Badon was a real event, but what a historical Arthur might have done besides participate in this battle is anyone's guess. (バドンの戦いが実際にあったことは分かっていますが、歴史上…

guess の用法_34_名詞の連語_1_anybody's[anyone's] guess_1

本日からは名詞の連語用法です。 ・What happens next is anybody's guess. I haven't put a whole lot of thought into it, other than I don't ever intend to stop working. (この先どうなるかは、誰にもわからない。仕事をやめるつもりはないということ…

guess の用法_33_名詞_9_推測・推量_9

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・“I'll give you three guesses. And the first two don't count.” “Oh.” My heart thudded in my chest, a little too hard for comfort as I suddenly realized exactly where she was suggesting. (「3つ推測してみて。だ…

guess の用法_32_名詞_8_推測・推量_8

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・My guess is that the answer is obvious!? If you let your client base control the way you use your time, what type of financial advisor would you be? (私の推測では、その答えは明白です!?もし、自分の時間の使い…

guess の用法_31_名詞_7_推測・推量_7

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・At the end of each line hazard a guess at what comes next and see how often your guess makes sense. (各行の最後に、次の行を予想し、その予想がどれだけ当たるか試してみてください。) www.google.co.jp 【研究】1. h…

guess の用法_30_名詞_6_推測・推量_6

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・For a six-penny fee, you could venture a guess at the animal's weight. Those coming closest to the weight would win the contest. Eight hundred people entered the contest and Galton was able to read the guesse…

guess の用法_29_名詞_5_推測・推量_5

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・There's no such thing as a fortune—teller, and my dad always said someone can make a lucky guess about someone's past. (占い師なんているわけないし、誰かの過去をたまたま言い当てるだけだって、パパはいつも言って…

guess の用法_28_名詞_4_推測・推量_4

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・If efforts to use these cues fail, she will be encouraged to make a “good guess” using phoneme–grapheme cues. (これらの手がかりを使おうとしてもうまくいかない場合、音素・書記素手がかりを使って「良い推測」をす…

guess の用法_27_名詞_3_推測・推量_3

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・The next task, as a result of observing the behavioral clues, is to make a guess at the feelings that have been expressed but not named. (行動の手がかりを観察した結果、次の課題は、表現されたけれども名前がつい…

guess の用法_26_名詞_2_推測・推量_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・They were also not willing to have a guess at the result. When I suggested that I did not know either. they felt more willing to guess. knowing that they would not be told they were wrong. (また、結果を推測す…

guess の用法_25_名詞_1_推測・推量_1

本日からは名詞用法を扱います。・But in most cases, if we ask people to take a guess at information, the answer is not so clearcut. (しかし、多くの場合、情報を推測してもらうと、答えはそれほど明確ではありません。) www.google.co.jp【研究】1. …

guess の用法_24_連語_8_You'll never guess

本日は You'll never guess の用法を扱います。 ・“You'll never guess what happened to me the first time I worked aboard a hospital ship?” he said, offering Joseph another cigarette, which he took gratefully. (「初めて病院船で働いたとき、何が…

guess の用法_23_連語_7_Let me guess

本日は Let me guess の用法を扱います。 ・“Let me guess, you're the boss.” “Well, yes. More important, stay away from my sister.” He frowned. “Angel?” (「察するに、あなたがボスってこと」「そう。それより妹に近づくなよ」彼は顔をしかめた。) ww…

guess の用法_22_連語_6_keep A guessing

本日は keep A guessing の用法を扱います。・Story writers like to keep their readers guessing about the ending. Even if everything turns out well in the end, a writer does not want you to guess this from the very beginning! (作家は、読者に…

guess の用法_21_連語_5_ I might have guessed

本日は I might have guessed の用法を扱います。 ・I might have guessed, if my mind hadn't been full of other things—only what with the girl giving notice as she did that morning and one thing and another, I didn't pay attention. (もし、私の…

guess の用法_20_連語_4_Guess what[who]!_3

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・I received a mysterious email saying, "Guess who! We're coming to visit you next week!" I couldn't wait to find out who it was. (「誰だと思う!?来週、君に会いに行くよ!」という謎のメールが届いた。誰なのか、…

guess の用法_19_連語_3_Guess what[who]!_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。・“Guess what? I'm getting married.” Tram squealed. “That's wonderful! When is the big day?” “Probably next Tuesday. It'll just be at the courthouse.” “What does your family think?” (「ねえ、私、結婚するんだ」ト…

guess の用法_18_連語_2_Guess what[who]!_1

本日からは Guess what[who]! の用法を扱います。 ・It took $1 trillion, and guess what? [It's] paid for by the Marty Bannons of the world, and not one guy goes to jail later. Zero accountability. (1兆ドルかかったんだけど、びっくりだよね。世…

guess の用法_17_連語_1_guess again

本日からは連語の用法を扱います。 ・“No! Guess again!” He looked surprised at the failure of that first guess. Sofya could see him thinking: But what else is a young girl likely to want to read? “Guess again!” Anyuta insisted in a playful w…

guess の用法_16_自動詞_5_推測する・言い当てる_5

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・Natalie seemed about to roll her eyes, but politeness held her back. She said, “So it was an accident?” “I guess so.” “They didn't mean it to happen?” “I guess.” “I don't think so,” she said with finality. (…

guess の用法_15_自動詞_4_推測する・言い当てる_4

本日も前回の用法も続きです。 ・“I think I have guessed as much as that,” I replied; “but you must remember I do not know the mere nature of your investigations; and as for the connection between the search and this wonderful valley, it is …

guess の用法_14_自動詞_3_推測する・言い当てる_3

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・As in the case of Paleoindians, we can guess at the likely activities of people confined to shelters in cold or rainy weather based on our general knowledge of hunter-gatherers. (古代インディアンの場合と同様…

guess の用法_13_自動詞_2_推測する・言い当てる_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・A system is a series of bets geared around 2 things—taking advantage of the upside of a potential trend, and limiting your losses on the downside of the trend (that is, if you guessed wrong or lost the trend)…

guess の用法_12_自動詞_1_推測する・言い当てる_1

本日からは自動詞の用法を扱います。 ・Dave guessed right. Not ten seconds later Jill said she needed to run a perimeter check and Cody volunteered to run it with her. That left Kate, who surprised Dave by falling in with his original sugges…

guess の用法_11_他動詞_11_言い当てる_3

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・So I was surprised when he showed up again a month later—yes, you guessed it—with the same diagnosis. This time we extended our conversation, and I suggested to him that he needed to make some better choices.…

guess の用法_10_他動詞_10_言い当てる_2

本日も前回の用法の続きです。 ・When his enemy saw that his neighbour had guessed the riddle correctly, he was even more enraged. (敵は隣人が謎を見事に言い当てたことがわかって、さらに激怒した。) www.google.co.jp 【研究】guess the riddle cor…

guess の用法_9_他動詞_9_言い当てる_1

本日からは「言い当てる」の用法を扱います。 ・Social workers and a shrink had guessed his age to be about 16 and a panel of psychiatrists and teachers had guessed him around that age as well – though very advanced for his age. (ソーシャルワ…