Describe a scene that taught a valuable lesson about life
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In a scene from a film, a football team defeats their long-standing rival and celebrates with joy.
The scene shows the team's determination and hard work to achieve their goal.
The lesson learned is that our determined effort is what really counts in achieving our goals.
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問題
「Describe one scene in a book,movie,comic, or animated cartoon that taught you a valuable lesson about life.」
答案
「In a scene in a film I saw last year, a football team managed to defeat their long-standing rival and all the teammates threw themselves into each other`s arms and cried for joy.Superimposed on this scene was another in which the team had been training hard with the strong desire to beat their rival.These scenes taught me a valuable lesson:what really counts is our determined effort to achieve our goals.」
◆Superimposed on this scene was another in which ...
というところは、英文のスタイル(文体)として私としては好ましくないように思います。
この8語を取り去って、The team を they にすれば、きれいにまとまりそうです。
◆These scenes taught me a valuable lesson. は問題文を借りたものになっていますね。
これは回答法としてはやや陳腐で、「わたしが学んだことは次のことです」のような感じにまとめたほうがいいかも。
◆最終文は our が2箇所にありますが、誰を含むのかわかりにくく、文体としては your のほうがベターです(一般論の中で一般の人々を指す your の用法です)。
以下、大文字にしている部分は修正箇所です。ご検討ください。
In a scene in THE film I saw last year, a football team managed to defeat their long-standing rival and all the teammates threw themselves into each other's arms CRYING for joy. THEY had been training VERY hard PROMPTED BY (または MOVED BY) THEIR strong desire to beat their rival. THIS IS WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM THE SCENE: what really counts is our determined EFFORTS to achieve our goals.
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ありがとうございます。それでは修正してみます。