質問: the dark glassesからの英文です。 we went into the examination room. she glided past me and switched on the dim light above the letter card. i began to read out the letters while basil simmonds stood with folded hands. someone came into the front shop. miss simmonds slid off to see who it was and her brother tickled my neck. i read on. he drew me towards him. i put my hand into my blazer pocket. he said, "oh!" and sprang away as the hat-pin struck through my blazer and into his thigh. miss simmonds appeared in the doorway in her avenging white overall. her brother, who had been rubbing his thigh in a puzzled way, pretended to be dusting a mark off the front of his trousers. "what's wrong? why did you shout?" she said. "no, i didn't shout." muriel sparkのthe dark glassesからの英文です。 basil simmondsは検眼士です。 主人公の女の子が検眼している場面です。 --------------------------------- ●miss simmonds appeared in the doorway in her avenging white overall.のin her avenging white overallの個所はどのように意味を理解して読むのでしょうか? avengingは復讐する、という意味ですか? ●her brother, who had been rubbing his thigh in a puzzled way, pretended to be dusting a mark off the front of his trousers.のpretended to be dusting a mark off the front of his trousersについて教えてください。 pretended to be dusting ~は「~を払っているふりをする」? a markは印を? offはdustingと繋がって意味をとるのでしょうか?(dust a mark offで「印を払う」ですか?) front of his trousersは「彼のズボンの前で」? 教えてください。宜しくお願いします。 前文は i broke the glasses by sitting on them during my school holidays two years later. my grandmother said, after she had sighed, "it's time you had your eyes tested--" "--eyes tested in any case," said my aunt when she had sighed. i washed my hair the night before and put a wave in it. next morning at eleven i walked down to mr simmonds's with one of my grandmother's long hat-pins in my blazer pocket. the shop front had been done up, with gold lettering on the glass door: basil simmonds, optician, followed by a string of letters which, so far as i remember, were fboa, aic, and others. you're quite the young lady, joan," he said, looking at my new breasts. i smiled and put my hand in my blazer pocket. he was smaller than he had been two years ago. i thought he must be about fifty or thirty. his face was more freckled than ever and his eyes were flat blue as from a box of paints. miss simmonds appeared silently in her soft slippers. "you're quite the young lady, joan," she said from behind her green glasses, for her right eye had now gone blind and the other was said to be troubling her. となっています。
回答: 1。miss simmonds appeared in the doorway in her avenging white overall.のin her avenging white overallの個所はどのように意味を理解して読むのでしょうか? まず僕なりの登場人物の横顔ですが 主人公=10代半ばの若い女性、検眼士のセクハラの対策をしている。 検眼士シモンズ= 商売を利用して若い女につけ込む男。 検眼士の姉(妹かも)=中性化した片目の女で、主人公が弟(兄かも)を誘惑したと信じている。 こう言う背景で検眼室をちょっと出た隙に弟の悲鳴が聞こえ、 2。avengingは復讐する、という意味ですか? はい。ここの前接辞 a- はラテン語の「~へ」という意味で単なる強勢の前接辞 re- と違って、危害を受けたのは当人ではないが「味方に」復讐するという意味が入ります。 すなわち弟に悲鳴を上げさせたこの小娘に仕返しをし、弟の仇を取ってやる、という身の構えです。 2。pretended to be dusting ~は「~を払っているふりをする」? おっしゃるとおりです。 3。 a markは印を? はい、そうです。 4。 offはdustingと繋がって意味をとるのでしょうか?(dust a mark offで「印を払う」ですか?) はい、なにかの汚れをはたき去る、という意味だと思います。 5。 front of his trousersは「彼のズボンの前で」? 男性の急所のところ、ですから「姉さん、僕こんなところをこの子に」と無言で言っているのかもしれませんね。