質問: the dark glassesからの英文です。 "can you read?" said mr simmonds. i stopped looking round. i said, "read what?"--for i had been told i would be asked to read row after row of letters. the card which hung beneath the dim light showed pictures of trains and animals. "because if you can't read we have pictures for illiterates." this was mr simmonds' joke. i giggled. his sister smiled and dabbed her right eye with her handkerchief. she had been to london for an operation on her right eye. i recall reading the letters correctly down to the last few lines, which were too small. i recall mr simmonds squeezing my arm as i left the shop, turning his sandy freckled face in a backward glance to see for certain that his sister was not watching. muriel sparkのthe dark glassesからの英文です。 mr simmonds=検眼士です。 ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー ●row after row of lettersのところはどうやって読むのでしょうか? ●mr simmonds' jokeというのは、主人公の女の子が字が読めないなら、と言って(検眼のときに)文字ではなく絵を見せたことですか? 前文は i had seen miss simmonds once before, at a garden fete, where she stood on a platform in a big hat and blue dress, and sang "sometimes between long shadows on the grass", while i picked up windfall apples, all of which seemed to be rotten. now in her white overall she turned and gave me a hostile look, as if i had been seducing her brother. i felt sexually in the wrong, and started looking round the dark room with a wide-eyed air. となっています。 宜しくお願いします。
回答: 1。row after row of lettersのところはどうやって読むのでしょうか? 下記のオンライン辞書には明確な定義がありませんが、row は、表の縦の列の column に対する「横」の列の事です。 視力表では縦は大きい文字から小さい文字と大きさが変わりますが、横は同じ大きさの文字が並んでいます。○行△段活用、などと言う時の行に対する「段」にあたります。 http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=row だから何段も何段も並んでいる文字、ということです。 2。mr simmonds' jokeというのは、主人公の女の子が字が読めないなら、と言って(検眼のときに)文字ではなく絵を見せたことですか? いえ文字も絵も両方目の前にあるのですが、13で、第2次性徴ムンムンの少女が読めないはずは無い、だから「字、読める?」と言わばからかっている訳です。