質問: わからない個所を教えてください。 ‘people go there. the chapel – well, it’s a ruin now. not many people live up that end of the valley any more.’ ‘mm,’ i say. ‘there’s a story about that place,’ she says after a second.(前回の終わりの部分です) ‘tell me!’ lena’s stories are always good. it’s lena who tells me about the people in the town, and the things that happened when she was young; and about the strange white house high up on the far side of the valley, where signor ferucci lives, and hardly ever comes out. ‘well – maybe on the way back home. now have a good look, and fix it in your mind so you can picture it when i tell you.’ i do so, staring at the distant building, frowning with concentration. lena smiles. ‘right, that’s enough. let’s go.’ i jump down from the bridge and trot along beside her. ‘what’s the story?’ i say. she clears her throat the way she does when she’s going to tell me something. ‘well now. like i told you, the chapel there isn’t used any more. i don’t know when they built it – maybe hundreds of years ago, for all i know – but now it’s a ruin. and it was a ruin thirty years ago, when i was a girl.’ we walk on in silence for a few yards, while she orders her thoughts. ‘but for a long time, back then, it wasn’t quite deserted. there was a hermit, you see, who lived there.’ ‘what’s that?’ ‘a hermit?’ ‘mm.’ ‘he’s a man who lives all alone. they’re supposed to be monks, though i don’t know if this one was. maybe he was just a tramp, or a gypsy; but because he lived in the chapel people began to think of him as if he was a holy man. he lived there for – oh, many years.’ ****************************************** 主人公のalexはartistで、展示会に備えるために、幼い頃過ごしたイタリアに戻ってきています。この英文は回想シーンだと思われます。 i don’t know when they built it – maybe hundreds of years ago, for all i know の最後のfor all i knowの個所がわかりません。forはどのような用法ですか? he’s a man who lives all aloneとhe’s a man who lives aloneはどのような違いがあるのでしょうか? they’re supposed to be monks, though i don’t know if this one was.のi don’t know if this one wasの個所は、この人が修道士かどうかわかりませんが、という意味ですか? 教えてください。お願いします。
回答: >i don’t know when they built it – maybe hundreds of years ago, for all i know の最後のfor all i knowの個所がわかりません。forはどのような用法ですか? ⇒この場合のforは、「範囲」を示す用法で、「私の知る限りでは」の「限り(では)」の部分に相当します。 >he’s a man who lives all aloneとhe’s a man who lives aloneはどのような違いがあるのでしょうか? ⇒allは「強調」で、alone は「独りで」、all aloneは「まったくの独りで、たったの独りで」といったニュアンスだと思います。 >they’re supposed to be monks, though i don’t know if this one was.のi don’t know if this one wasの個所は、この人が修道士かどうかわかりませんが、という意味ですか? ⇒そのとおりだと思います。 「この人(フェルッチ氏)が修道士かどうかわかりませんが」ということでしょう。