質問: 代名詞(they・such等)が訳せません。 代名詞(they・such等)をうまく訳す事が出来なくて、苦労しています。 itの場合は、 ・強調構文 ・it is 形容詞/副詞 that/to →仮主語のit ・状況のit を除いて、基本的にいちばん近い(前の)名詞(単数形)をとると教わりました。 また、thisは基本的に前文をとると教わりました。(場合によっては後文) theyやsuchは、感覚的にはitとは違うように思えます。 thisと同じく前文から取るのでしょうか? 以下、例文を示しておきます。 ・theyの場合 personality researchers have attempted to devise formal methods for describing and measuring personality,which go beyond our everyday use of trait terms in thee ways. first,【they】 seek to reduce the potential set of trait... ・suchの場合 one certainly has to represent the transition from sober reasoning to phantastic attempts to solve a problem as a transition to processes within irreal levels. but are we dealing in these cases with locomotions of the person as a whole? if the person were at each moment within only one level of reality, one would have to represent him as two-dimensional. however, 【such a thesis】 is open to doubt... どこまで前文を記せば代名詞が特定できるかわからないので、少し大目に書きました。 英語の文章が足りないようであれば加筆します。
回答: > personality researchers have attempted to devise formal methods for describing and measuring personality, which go beyond our everyday use of trait terms in three ways. first, they seek to reduce the potential set of trait ... この they はおそらく personality researchers のことではないかと思います。 they seek to ... という部分から、「何かを探求している人たち」 のことだな、と頭に浮かびますから、それに該当するのは冒頭の personality researchers であろうと見当がつきます。 > one certainly has to represent the transition from sober reasoning to phantastic attempts to solve a problem as a transition to processes within irreal levels. but are we dealing in these cases with locomotion of the person as a whole? if the person were at each moment within only one level of reality, one would have to represent him as two-dimensional. however, such a thesis is open to doubt ... これもおそらくという限定付きですが、この such はその直前の文を受けているように見えます。つまり、if the person were at each moment within only one level of reality, one would have to represent him as two-dimensional. という部分です。 理屈というよりも、そういうふうに取れば自然に思えるからです。