Understanding Boundaries and Forms in 'The Dandelion Clock'| OKWAVE

わからない個所を教えてください。その2

（その1からの続きです） Then he says, ‘Oh, listen, Alex. There's something I meant to say to you before you left. You know Julia Connell?' ‘Of course,' I say. ‘She's got this idea for the catalogue; a kind of overview of your work in conversation with the artist. She wants to meet up and talk to you about some of the paintings –hang on –I have it right here—' ‘Max?' I say. ‘Max, can you hear me?' There's a moment's pause, and then, ‘Yes,' he says. ‘Have you got a bad line?' ‘I don't know,' I say. ‘You just sound –very distant.' ‘Oh. I'll try to speak up. Yes –it says here that she wants to cover themes in your work, and she's listed a few. She wanted me to ask you if you can think these over and come up with some ideas –you know, why they feature, what significance they have for you, symbolism, all that. Then she'll talk to you and turn it all into some kind of stream-of-consciousness thing. I think –yes, she says she wants to run it along the bottom third of some of the catalogue pages, with the pictures and the notes on them above. Can you visualize that? Alex?' ****************************************** ‘She's got this idea for the catalogue; a kind of overview of your work in conversation with the artist. She wants to meet up and talk to you about some of the paintings –hang on –I have it right here—' ここでthis idea＝a kind of overview of your work in conversation with the artist.ですか？ I have it right here—のitは何を指しているのでしょうか？ rightは「ちょうど」、という意味ですか？ Then she'll talk to you and turn it all into some kind of stream-of-consciousness thing. I think –yes, she says she wants to run it along the bottom third of some of the catalogue pages, with the pictures and the notes on them above. の中にある turn itと run itのitはthis ideaですか？ along the bottom third of some of the catalogue pagesの中のthirdは三番目という意味でしょうか？カタログページのいくつかの三番目の底に沿って？ですか？意味がとれないのですが。。三分の一という意味ですか？最後のwith the pictures and the notes on them aboveのon themはthe catalogue pagesにという意味だと思うのですが、最後にaboveがついているのがわかりません。細かくなってしまいましたが、教えてください。お願いします。

わからない個所を教えてください。

‘Are you sure you can remember all this?’ ‘You have to concentrate, Alex,’ my father is saying. ‘How can you remember things if you don’t concentrate?’ ‘I try,’ I say. ‘Well, try trying a bit harder.’（前回の終わりの部分です） ‘Alex?' ‘I'll remember,' I say again. ‘Well, it doesn't matter if you don't. I can give you a copy on Thursday. Did you know there were trilaterally symmetrical forms in your paintings?' I can tell he's joking. ‘Yes,' I say. ‘Fruit segments, sometimes. Some other stuff.' ‘Really? I didn't know that. Well well. And last of all – there are others, like I said, but these are the ones she's keenest to get you to talk about –starbursts and seedheads; dandelions particularly, apparently, and motifs with the same shape-patterns as dandelion seedheads. So. Think you can come up with something for her?' ＊【In my head there is a ghost of a voice: my voice, lodged somewhere out of sight in a different time. It's still a crap joke, Jamie, I hear myself saying; and a moment later, there is the ghost of Jamie's voice also: All the best ones are.】 I say, ‘I'll try.' ****************************************** 「The Dandelion clock」からの英文です。：主人公のAlexと知人と思われるMaxが電話で話している場面です。＊【】の個所は、以前質問させていただいた部分です。 Well, it doesn't matter if you don't. のyou don'tのところは動詞が続いていないのですが、「君（Alex）が僕（Max）の言ったことを忘れないなら問題ないよ」という意味になるのでしょうか？ I can give you a copy on Thursday. Did you know there were trilaterally symmetrical forms in your paintings?' I can tell he's joking. で、I can tell he's jokingと言っているのはどういうジョークをMaxが言っているのでしょうか？（どの部分がジョークと言えるようになっているのでしょうか？そもそもDid you know there were～と聞くこと自体がナンセンスみたいなことなのでしょうか？） Did you know there were trilaterally symmetrical forms in your paintings?' ‘Yes,' I say. ‘Fruit segments, sometimes. Some other stuff.' ‘Really? I didn't know that. Well well. And last of all – there are others,～ここのやり取りの内容が掴めないのですが、三辺が対照的な形が果物の部分にある、という事をAlexが答えていて、本当に？それは知らなかった、とMaxが言っている感じみたいなのですが、ジョークをジョークで返した？ということなのでしょうか？？ sometimesはときどき、たまには、という意味ですか？たまに、果物の部分に三辺が対照的な形があるよ、ということですか？ Think you can come up with something for her?の個所は、本来はDo you think～なのでしょうか？Thinkが前に出て来ているのはなぜなのでしょうか？（命令形？）意味は、「彼女に何かを示すことができると思う？」ということですか？たくさんの質問になってしまってすみません。教えてください。

わからない個所を教えてください。1

After a moment’s hesitation, he sits down on the flat rock beside me. ‘What were you thinking about?’ Now it is my turn to hesitate. I have become used to what to say to my parents, but perhaps this is not the right thing to say to Jamie. I look at him, and his brown eyes are interested, not suspicious. I say, ‘I was thinking with Lena.’ ‘Who’s Lena?’ (前回の終わりの部分です） ‘She’s our cook. And she looks after me, sometimes.’ He nods, and I am encouraged by the way he accepts what I’ve told him. ‘We’re going for a walk up that way, and we see a bridge, and a chapel where a man used to live. A hermit,’ I add. ‘He went away, though, into the hills.’ Jamie is frowning. ‘When?’ ‘When what?’ ‘When do you go on the walk?’ I am thrown into confusion. I don’t want Jamie to know that I used to be a liar, but the conversation is becoming like the ones I used to have – back then, when I was a liar – with my parents. I don’t know what to say. But Jamie is still looking at me, his face open and waiting for me to say something, and in the end I just say it. ‘Just now.’ ‘This morning?’ ‘Just now. Before you came.’ Suddenly I want him very much to understand. ‘That was what I was doing. Staring into space.’ ‘You mean you were imagining it?’ ‘No …’ ‘What, then?’ It is the tone of his voice that makes the difference: not impatient, just curious. I try to find the words. ‘You know when – you go somewhere—’ He nods. ‘And then you come back.’ Now he is looking puzzled. ‘What, like a walk?’ ‘Yes,’ I say. ‘Like that. That’s what I was doing.’ He is quiet for a time, then he says, ‘So you’d gone with Lena and then you came back and then you came here and I found you?’ ＊That’s what I was doing.のThatは斜体になっています。 ****************************************** 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。 ‘That was what I was doing. Staring into space.’ ‘You mean you were imagining it?’ ‘No …’ ここのやり取りの意味が掴めません。「それは僕がしていたことだったんだ。空間を見つめていたんだ」「それを想像していたっていうこと？」「違うよ」？？教えてください。お願いします。

わからない個所を教えてください。

There is a sharp silence. At last he says, ‘Alex, how long are you talking about? The weekend?’ ‘Maybe,’ I say. ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Well, that’s all right – just. But let’s not cut things too close here. This is the big one, remember?’ ‘Sure,’ I say. （前回の終わりの部分です） Suddenly he laughs. ‘You really hate all of this, don’t you?’ he says. ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if the house was perfect and you were inventing rising damp so you can sit in the sun and keep out of my way.’ ‘Actually, it’s been raining,’ I tell him. ‘Whatever. Look, enjoy yourself, all right? Have some beers in between fixing up builders and all that. When things are sorted out, give me a call. I suppose we’ll all survive without you for a few more days.’ ‘OK,’ I say. ‘And don’t forget to think over those ideas Julia came up with. They’ve got to go to press by the fourteenth at the latest, and she’ll need some time before that to put it all together.’ ‘I will. I’ll call you, Max.’ ‘Bye, Alex,’ he says, still sounding amused, and the line goes dead. ****************************************** 「The Dandelion clock」からの英文です。：主人公のAlexと知人と思われるMaxが電話で話している場面です。 ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if the house was perfect and you were inventing rising damp so you can sit in the sun and keep out of my way.’ がどういうことを言っているのかわかりません。Alexは自分の家を修理しなければならない状態でいたのですが、the houseというのはAlexの家のことを言っているのか。。。 you were inventing rising damp so you can sit in the sun and keep out of my way.の部分が意味不明です。rising damp＝上昇水分？？（湿気？） keep out of my way=? Whatever. Look, enjoy yourself, all right? のWhateverは何かの略なのでしょうか？それとも単独で何か意味があるのでしょうか？ They've got to go to press by the fourteenth at the latest, and she'll need some time before that to put it all together.' のThey've got to go to press はto不定詞が2つつながっているのでしょうか？　 the fourteenthは１４日？ she'll need some time before that to put it all together.のthat とitは何を指しているのでしょうか？（thatはto put～以下、itはthose ideasですか？） ‘Bye, Alex,’ he says, still sounding amused, and the line goes dead.のsounding amusedの表現がどういう感じなのか掴めません。おかしそうに鳴り響いている？ the line goes deadは、電話線が意に反して切れてしまった、ということなのでしょうか？＊（ここでAlexとMaxの電話は終わります）ほとんど読めていなのですが、教えてください。お願いします。

わからない個所を教えてください。

‘You’re weird,’ he says eventually. I blink. But then he says, ‘I like you, though.’ And my heart skips once, and feels as if it is grinning inside me. ‘I like you too,’ I say. ‘And wouldn’t it be great if you could go anywhere, just in your head – the moon or Mars, or different planets?’ I have never thought about this either. ‘I suppose,’ I say. (前回の終わりの部分です） ‘I’d love that.’ He looks entranced with the possibility. ‘Do you like comics?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘I’ve got some great ones. They’re in English, though,’ he adds, doubtfully. ‘But I speak English,’ I say, surprised. It takes me a moment to remember that Jamie is a foreigner, like me. Astonished, I switch from the way we have been talking – the way I talk with Lena – to the other way I talk, when I’m with my parents. ‘Can you speak like this?’ Jamie looks just as astonished, but he answers the same way. ‘Yes. My father’s English.’ ‘Mine too,’ I say. ‘And Mummy,’ I add, remembering. Suddenly he begins to laugh – a little at first that quickly grows into a great uncontrollable peal that rings against the side of the valley. He points at me, helplessly, and then at himself, and I understand immediately what he means – We’re such idiots! – and the funny side of it strikes me, too. I can’t help it; I join him, laughing harder and harder until my sides hurt and there are tears in my eyes. I can’t think of a time when I’ve laughed harder. At last we quieten down. Occasionally we look sideways at each other and giggles overwhelm us again; but in the end we are too tired to laugh any more. We sit side by side with big, idiot grins on our faces. ****************************************** 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で幼なじみのJamieと話しているところです。二人のやり取りが正確にはよくわからないのですが、 I’ve got some great ones. They’re in English, though,’ he adds, doubtfully.のdoubtfullyとはどういう意味合いなのでしょうか？疑わしげに？自分が持っているいくつかの漫画はすばらしいけれど、英語で書かれている。の後にdoubtfullyが付くのがよくわかりません。 I switch from the way we have been talking – the way I talk with Lena – to the other way I talk, when I’m with my parents.というのは、AlexがJamieと今まで話していた方法を変えた、ということで、Lenaや、両親と話していた英語でJamieに話した、ということですか？ We’re such idiots! とありますが、Alexが、英語が話せるJamieに今までイタリア語で話していたことがおかしいのでしょうか？？ I join him, laughing harder and harder until my sides hurt and there are tears in my eyes.とありますが、until my sides hurt and there are tears in my eyes.というのは、Alexのどんな心境を表しているのでしょうか？何に傷ついているのかがわかりません。（あまりにもばかげた事を言ってしまったことですか？・・・英語が話せるの？というような）教えてください。お願いします。

わからない箇所を教えてください。

But I’ve seen that before: it’s the hairstyle she had when I first knew her. And she is five years older. But the physical changes are, when I isolate them, so slight, and I still see that she has changed a lot, and I don’t understand. (前回の終わりの部分です） We drag our cases up the staircase of the sixteenth-century palazzo hidden away in the backstreets near the Duomo and sign in. The proprietor glances approvingly at Anna and nods to me as he shows us to our room. Inside, she goes straight to the windows, opens them to let in the sound and light of the city afternoon. ‘Well, we got here,’ she says. ‘We did.’ She slings her cases on the bed and looks around. ‘Huge room. How can it be this big and still be so cheap?’ ‘It’s out of season,’ I say, shrugging. ‘And we have to eat out.’ ‘Suits me. God, I’m stiff. My feet are killing me.’ She’s kicking off her shoes as she speaks. ‘There’s time for a shower, isn’t there? You don’t want to rush off and do anything right away?’ ‘No. Fine by me.’ ‘Good. I’m going to soak myself. I feel all shrivelled up, like a prune.’ I make a face, and she laughs. ‘I do. It’s flying. I hate flying. Excellent – they’ve given us towels.’ She’s going round the room inspecting things. ‘And a writing-desk. That’s nice. I had the most awful flight. You should have seen who I had to sit next to.’ ****************************************** 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。AnnaはAlexの幼なじみです。 How can it be this big and still be so cheap?'と聞いている個所ですが、‘It’s out of season,’「シーズンを外しているからだよ」（合っているでしょうか？）と答えているので、どうやってこの大きくてそんなに安い部屋が取れたの？みたいな感じの事を聞いているのでしょうか？ stillは「その上」、という意味ですか？ ‘No. Fine by me.’はどうやって意味をとるのでしょうか？Noと言っているのはAnnaのセリフを受けて、何もしたくないよ、と答えていると思うのですが。Fine by meがわかりません。 ‘Good. I’m going to soak myself. I feel all shrivelled up, like a prune.’ I make a face, and she laughs.で、彼女が笑ったのは、Alexが顔を作ったからですか？I make a faceはどのように意味をとるのでしょうか？ I hate flying. Excellent – they’ve given us towelsこの流れがわかりません。飛ぶことは嫌いだ、と言っていてExcellent素晴らしい？they’ve given us towelsのtheyは誰を指しているのでしょうか？？たくさんの質問ですみません。教えてください。お願いします。

わからない箇所を教えてください。

The focus shifts and sharpens and sense and understanding happen. But most of that is still to come. I am six, and Jamie’s parents move into the house at the other end of the row from ours.(前回の終わりの部分です） The house at the end has been empty for a time. Next door to us live Signora Bartolomeo Cassi and Lucia. The signora is well into her eighties, my mother says, and Lucia doesn’t look all that much younger. Adults say that Lucia is the signora’s maid, that’s she’s been with her ever since she was a young woman of nineteen. The children of Altesa are not taken in, though, and know Lucia to be a witch, and they keep an eye open for her on Fridays, when she comes into town shopping. There is a sign to make to ward off her spells when she looks at you in a certain way. For the rest of the week, both she and the signora stay mostly out of sight. ****************************************** 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） Adults say that Lucia is the signora’s maid, that’s she’s been with her ever since she was a young woman of nineteen. のthat'sのところが文法的にわかりません。どういう構造になっているのでしょうか？ The children of Altesa are not taken in,のtake inの意味の取り方がわかりません。いろいろ意味があるようなのですが、騙すという意味ですか？ Altesaの子供達は騙されないけれども？ they keep an eye open for her on Fridaysで、わざわざan ayeと単数で表現している意味は何かあるのでしょうか？通常ならeyesになりそうなのですが。 There is a sign to make to ward off her spells when she looks at you in a certain way.を訳すと、彼女がある方法であなたを見るとき、彼女の呪文を寄せ付けないサインがあります、ですか？意味がよくとれません。ここでのFor the rest of the week,とは、金曜日以外は、ということですか？教えてください。お願いします。

わからない箇所を教えてください。

As she talks she goes round to her bed, sits down, pulling off her trousers. ‘No – it was this business-man type, maybe forty. Such a letch. I thought I was going to get groped for sure.’ ‘Did you?’ ‘No. Spineless. I kept the second half of my Coke ready, though, so I could chuck it over him when he did. That’s probably why I’m so dehydrated.’　（前回の終わりの部分です） She stands up and pulls her shirt off over her head. I look quickly away, pretending I haven’t noticed. I know she doesn’t care – wouldn’t mind me seeing her standing there in her underwear – but I’m not sure I can carry off the pretence that I don’t care. It’s easier to look away. She says, ‘Not a bad view either. There’s a little square down there, and a tree. I think that’s a church. You know all this stuff better than I do. You’ll have to tell me about it later.’ ‘It’s a deal,’ I say, looking fixedly at the writing-desk in the corner. I hear her walk over to where the towels are laid out, bare feet padding on the stone. ‘I’d say I won’t be long, but I probably will be,’ she says, a smile in her voice. I risk looking up. She has a towel wrapped around her, and I am able to pretend that, as far as I’m aware, this is how it’s always been. ‘There’s no hurry,’ I say. ‘Take as long as you like.’ ‘Thanks. I’ll see you in a bit.’ She closes the door after her and, a few moments later, there comes the first hiss of water from the shower, and somewhere far off the rumble and clang of air through the plumbing of the old building. I am left lying on my bed, staring at the wall, trying to keep the thought of her out of my head. ****************************************** 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。she（Anna）はAlexの幼なじみです。（Annaとの回想シーンだと思われます） ‘Not a bad view either. There’s a little square down there, and a tree. I think that’s a church. You know all this stuff better than I do. You’ll have to tell me about it later.’ のNot a bad view either.がよくわかりません。悪い眺めではない。両方とも？？all this stuffのstuffとはどういう意味ですか？You’ll have to tell me about it laterのitはa churchのことですか？ I’d say I won’t be long, but I probably will be,の意味は、長く生きていないでしょうと言っていました、でも多分生きます、という意味ですか？それとも長くはいないと言っていました。でも多分長くいます。という意味ですか？beの意味が漠然としててよくわかりません。 She has a towel wrapped around her, and I am able to pretend that, as far as I’m aware, this is how it’s always beenのI am able to pretend that～のところがわからないのですが、（文をつなげると、I am able to pretend that this is how it's always beenだと思うのですが）、私はこれがいかにいつものことだというふりをすることができる？という意味ですか？ I am able to pretendと言っている意味がいまひとつわかりません。 ‘There’s no hurry,’ I say. ‘Take as long as you like.’ ‘Thanks. I’ll see you in a bit.’ のセリフについてですが、彼女がシャワーを浴びていて、急がないから好きなだけ浴びてていいよ、と主人公が言って、彼女がちょっとしたら（シャワーから出て）会いにいきます、と言っているシーンですか？教えてください。お願いします。

わからない個所を教えてください。

‘But it looks like a river. And there’s a bridge.’ ‘Sometimes there’s water in it,’ she says. ‘When the storms come. But most of the time it’s dry. It’s not really a river, you see, it’s just a place where the water runs when it rains in the hills.’ （前回の終わりの部分です） ‘Oh,’ I say. I am slightly disappointed that there’s no water, but the not-a-river is peculiar and a little magical. I let my gaze travel up along its length, tracing the course back up through the valley. It twists and meanders from side to side a bit, but I can make out its paler route among the dark earth and grey-green grasses and scrub right up towards the foothills of the valley’s end. Just at the point where it fades from sight, I can see a little building: white walls and rust-coloured roof, standing alone in the middle of nowhere. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Where?’ she asks. I point, and she bends her head down to follow the line of my arm. ‘That. The little house.’ ‘Oh,’ she says. ‘That’s not a house. That’s a church.’ She pauses for a moment. ‘Well, rightly it’s more like a chapel. That’s a small church. It’s not used now. You know the church in the town?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘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. ****************************************** 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。 It twists and meanders from side to side a bit, but I can make out its paler route among the dark earth and grey-green grasses and scrub right up towards the foothills of the valley’s end.の中に出てくるscrubの意味がわかりません。make outは見分けるでしょうか？ ‘Well, rightly it’s more like a chapel. That’s a small church. It’s not used now. You know the church in the town?’ というセリフがありますが、You know the church in the town?のthe churchは二人が見つけた教会のことを指しているのでしょうか？それとも一般的にある町の教会を指しているのでしょうか？ theがついているのでよくわからなくなってしまったのですが、二人が見つけた教会はIt’s not used nowと言っていて、You know the church in the town?のセリフの後にPeople go there.と言っているので一般的にある町の教会の方でしょうか？ Not many people live up that end of the valley any more.のupはどのように意味をとるのでしょうか？その谷の終わりの上の方にはもはやたくさんの人は住んでいません？教えてください。お願いします。

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I actually make myself shake my head and smile ruefully, as if someone might be watching me and checking my reaction – is he her lover or her friend? – and I have to be seen to do the right thing. But it is difficult to get her out of my head.（前回の終わりの部分です） She has changed a lot in the five years since I last saw her. I see it the moment I catch sight of her in the airport in Pisa – a difference about her I would never have guessed at. It’s the same when we embrace: something that has altered, something I can feel for the short time I’m holding her, before she pulls away and grins and we start to talk. I keep looking. I can’t help it. Even on the train I keep stealing glances at her, hoping she won’t realize. And I keep trying to find what the things are that have changed; and I keep failing. She has her hair shorter now, to the nape of her neck rather than to her shoulders. But I’ve seen that before: it’s the hairstyle she had when I first knew her. And she is five years older. But the physical changes are, when I isolate them, so slight, and I still see that she has changed a lot, and I don’t understand. ****************************************** 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。She(Anna)はAlexの幼なじみです。 I see it the moment I catch sight of her in the airport in Pisaのitは彼女が変わってしまったことですか？ a difference about her I would never have guessed at.彼女が変わってしまうなんて思いもしなかった、みたいな意味でしょうか？ It’s the same when we embrace: something that has altered, something I can feel for the short time I’m holding her, before she pulls away and grins and we start to talk.が全体的によくわからないのですが、 It’s the same when we embrace私たちが抱合う時は同じです？(意味がよくわかりません） :のマークがついていてsomething～と繰り返されているのが読み取れません。 before she pulls away and grins and we start to talk.彼女が身を引き離し、歯を見せて笑い、そして私たちが話し始める前に、ですか？（このbefore以下の内容がなぜsomething that has altered, something I can feel for the short time I’m holding her,の後に必要なのかがよくわかりません。） But the physical changes are, when I isolate them, so slight, and I still see that she has changed a lot, and I don't understand.のwhen I isolate themのthemはthe physical changes のことだと思うのですが、それらを分離する（isolate）、とはどういうことなのでしょうか？たくさんになってしまいましたが教えてください。お願いします。

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‘Can’t you read at all?’ he asks. He sounds shocked, but I know he won’t laugh at me or be unkind; he is just amazed that I can live without this essential ability. In a flash of understanding, I look around me at the room and see why he might think this. ‘My dad's teaching me,' I say. ‘Oh,' he says. For a moment he seems at a loss. Then he says, ‘I suppose what you do – you know, the going places in your head – that's like reading stories, isn't it?' (前回の終わりの部分です） I know what he means. This is the second time he’s called it something like that: going places in your head. Again, I can feel heavy structures grating and moving laboriously in me, as I try to fit the words into place. Very, very tentatively, I begin to see that the difference between going somewhere and going somewhere in your head might be what Jamie has been struggling with. In your head is the key. And I know in that moment that Jamie has already understood me better than my parents and everyone else ever have. I meet his eyes with a surge of gratitude pushing up inside me. I want to say something, but I can’t imagine what. （going places in your head.の部分は斜体になっています） ****************************************** 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。この英文は幼い頃の回想シーンです。 Again, I can feel heavy structures grating and moving laboriously in me, as I try to fit the words into place.の、 grating and moving は現在分詞で、軋んで動きながら、ですか？全体的に意味が良く取れません。 Very, very tentatively, I begin to see that the difference between going somewhere and going somewhere in your head might be what Jamie has been struggling with.の、what Jamie has been struggling withの部分の訳は、Jamieが取り組んで来たこと、ですか？教えてください。お願いします。

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I look up at the sky again. It’s not the time of year for the shooting stars yet; a few months must pass before the Perseids wash through the Earth’s orbit and burn briefly through the high atmosphere. Jamie tells me all about them. We watch them together.（前回の終わりの部分です） ‘There’s one – over there.’ I turn my head a fraction and catch the last dying trace of light as the star burns out. ‘That’s fourteen,’ I say. ‘They’re great, aren’t they?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘People say you should wish when you see one.’ ‘We should do that.’ ‘OK. On the next one.’ ‘We could have had fourteen wishes by now,’ I say. ‘Do you believe in all that?’ ‘All what?’ ‘Wishes and stuff.’ I think about it. ‘I don’t think so,’ I say at last. ‘Me neither.’ I can hear the grin in his voice as he adds, ‘But let’s do it anyway.’ We wait until the next star cuts across the sky. ‘What did you wish for?’ I ask. ‘It’s a secret,’ he says. ‘You have to keep them a secret if you want them to come true.’ ‘Oh.’ ‘They aren’t really stars, you know,’ he says. He speaks quietly, almost dreamily. ‘They’re pieces of rock. Meteors. They drift through space, and once a year this big sort of cloud of them – it’s called a swarm – comes. They go round the sun, you see, like us, only we only catch up with them once a year. And then they burn up.’ ‘Why do they burn up?’ ‘Because of the air.’ ‘Rocks don’t burn,’ I say. ‘Yes they do. Look at volcanoes. That’s rock.’ ‘Oh, yeah,’ I say. He’s right. ‘Why does the air make them burn?’ ‘There’s another.’ ‘I see it. Sixteen.’ ＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊主人公のAlexはartistで、幼い頃過ごしたイタリアに帰ってきています。 Alexと幼なじみのJamieが話しているシーンです。（子供の頃の回想シーン？） ‘Do you believe in all that?’ ‘All what?’ ‘Wishes and stuff.’ このセリフの中のstuffは何を意味しているのでしょうか？漠然としたもの？？ They drift through space, and once a year this big sort of cloud of them – it’s called a swarm – comes. They go round the sun, you see, like us, only we only catch up with them once a year.この英文のonly we only catch up with them once a year.の個所がよくわからないのですが、私たちだけが一年に一度それらに追いつくだけです？onlyの意味するところがよくわかりません。教えてください。お願いします。

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Somehow my hand, holding the broad, thick-bristled brush I have bought in town, has made marks on the shadow. They are fragmented, hesitant; little uncertain sweeps and arcs of paint which have run and dripped, pale against the darker wall. I blink. The marks coalesce, and for a second I see it: the pale shape of a figure there.（前回の終わりの部分です） Christ, I think, what’s happening to me? The distant echo of laughter rings through the house: childish laughter, but too bright, forced; laughter at a joke that isn’t funny, but which has to be funny. I was too young, I think to myself, rather wildly; I was too young to understand. He should have known that.　 The image on the wall is back again now: a pale body, taut, tensed somehow, as if caught in the instant of time between intention and act. The slender curve of it is white, like moonlight. I press my hands to my eyes to blot it out; but it still floats behind closed eyelids, the pale, stretched body now alone in an infinity of darkness. I press harder, trying to drive it away from me into the black, until the figure shifts and blurs and separates, until it looks as if it might be three figures and not one, and until phosphenes shimmer and burst across the range of my vision like fireworks, or seedheads. （Christ, what’s happening to me?とhas to be funnyと I was too young、I was too young to understand. He should have known that.のそれぞれの個所は斜体で書かれています。） ****************************************** 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。この英文は子供の頃の回想シーンから現在に戻っている場面です。 a pale body, taut, tensed somehow, as if caught in the instant of time between intention and act.の個所が抽象的な表現でよくわかりません。どういうことを言っているのでしょうか？一番最後にuntil it looks as if it might be three figures and not one, and until phosphenes shimmer and burst across the range of my vision like fireworks, or seedheads.とあって、seedheadsという単語が出てきますが、shimmer and burstとあって、like fireworksというのはイメージが湧くのですが、なぜここでseedheads.が出てくるのでしょうか？教えてください。お願いします。

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Lena shows me how to make a cat’s-cradle and pass it from person to person; I stretch string tight and twang it, feeling the quick-dying vibrations in my hands; I coil string tightly around my thumb and leave a red spiral mark when I take it off, neat grooves running all the way up.　（前回の終わりの部分です） This problem is easier, though. The boy – Jamie – Pleased to meet you – wants to get over the wall, but there’s no tree like the one I have. I think it through, and am pleased to realize he has gone to get a ladder, when there is a scuffling sound off to my left, on my side of the wall. I look round, and to my surprise see Jamie coming round the end of the wall. I drop down from where I’m hanging and go to meet him. ‘How’d you do that?’ I ask, impressed. ‘I went round,’ he says. ‘I ran. It is higher back here, isn’t it?’ After a second or two, I start to see what he means. If you go out of the front gate of his house, and followed the wall to your left, and went through the fence that runs beside the road, and kept following the wall round the next corner – you would be here, at the back. The idea is amazing. In another couple of seconds, I see that I can do the same from my front gate, turning right instead of left. It has never occurred to me before that this might be possible. You get to the rocks and the lizards by going up the tree and over, that is how it has always worked. I have never imagined— ****************************************** 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。（この英文は子供時代の回想シーンだと思われます） I think it through, and am pleased to realize he has gone to get a ladder, when there is a scuffling sound off to my left, on my side of the wall.について、when there is a scuffling sound off to my leftの個所がわかりません。私の左側に動き回る音が遠くにあるとき？？ I look round, and to my surprise see Jamie coming round the end of the wall.が、よくわからないのですが、主人公が驚いた理由は、Jamieが壁の端のあたりにやってきたことなのでしょうか？どういう事で驚いたのでしょうか？？梯子を持って来なかったことに驚いた、ということですか？ ‘I went round,’ he says. ‘I ran. It is higher back here, isn’t it?’のItは何を指しているのでしょうか？ The idea is amazing.とあるのですが、The ideaとは今主人公がいる地点にどうやって辿りつくか、というアイディアだと思うのですが、読んでみたところ、あまり状況のイメージが掴めない感じです。つまりは、主人公自身ももっと簡単に今の場所に辿りつける方法があった（木を使わずに辿りつく方法）、ということがわかった、というようなことなのでしょうか？教えてください。お願いします。

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I can’t understand. I stare at them, frowning, and the colours shift under the intensity of my gaze: change for a moment and are darker, as if a cloud has come over the sky and cut out all the light of the sun—（前回の終わりの部分です） Darkness but the light of stars— It’s dark; the shadows of the rocks and cliffs are very deep. It is night-time, and the cliffs and the vegetation that straggles along their top are leached of colour. Somewhere close by is the sea: the sound of it, slowly rhythmic; the interlocking patterns of the waves discernible by moonlight, some blue-black here beween the pearlescent ribbons of light that blur across the low crests. Off to one side are three rocks breaking out of the water, and to the other is a little promontory of land that curves out into the water, defining a naturally calm place sheltered from the greater expanse of the sea beyond. The shadow of the rock where it hits the water kills the moonlight, and makes a dark, impenetrable hollow by the curving underside of the promontory. Standing on the curve of land— ****************************************** 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。 Somewhere close by is the seaの読み方は倒置で、the sea is somewhere close byですか？（海はどこか近くにある？）もしそうだとしたら、なぜわざわざ倒置にしているのでしょうか？ the interlocking patterns of the waves discernible by moonlight, some blue-black here beween the pearlescent ribbons of light that blur across the low crests. について、表現を読み取るのが難しいのですが。。。月の光によって識別できる波の混合パターン？？なんとなく雰囲気は掴めるのですが、、、ここに何かの濃い藍色。。。低い波頭を横切って、ぼやける光の光沢がある虹色のきらめきがあるリボン。。。？？上手く英文が掴めません。（原文にbeweenとあるのですが、これはbetweenの間違いなんでしょうか？？）以下も倒置だと思われるのですが、 to the other is a little promontory of land that curves out into the water, defining a naturally calm place sheltered from the greater expanse of the sea beyond.の curves out into the water,の部分は、水の中に外にカーブする、という意味ですか？意味が掴みにくいです。どういう事でしょうか？ defining a naturally calm placeの部分は、穏やかな場所を明らかにして、という意味ですか？definingの意味の取り方がよくわかりません。 The shadow of the rock where it hits the water kills the moonlight, and makes a dark, impenetrable hollow by the curving underside of the promontory.の it hits the water kills the moonlight,についてですが、itはthe shadow of the rockだと思うのですが、それが水が月の光を殺す、というのはどういう状態なのでしょうか？詩的な表現を読み取るのが難しいです。教えてください。お願いします。

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"It's Alex," I say. "Alex. How's Italy?" His voice sounds very far away; a bad connection, perhaps. "It's fine." "And the house and so on? Everything sorted out all right?" "Well---" I say. "Not yet. I mean, there's---" "Is it legal stuff?" he breaks in. "You don't need to worry about that kind of thing. You've seen the attorney there?" "Yes," I say. "I got the key from him yesterday. I was going to call in again on my way back. But it's not that. It's--- the place is really run down, Max." I grope for a way to explain it to him. "I mean, it's a terrible mess. I don't think anyone would touch it the way it is at the moment." "Oh," he says. "Yes. I see. Are there structural problems?" "I don't know. I don't think so. I mean, the verandah--the one my mother had---well, that's all rotted at one end. And the chimney's broken loose. From the stove. I think a storm did that. I've hardly had a proper look---I'm going to do that today. There are bound to be other things as well. I mean, there's a window broken in the room where I slept, and the garden's---the garden's awful. It needs work doing on it, that's all. It's mostly small things." ****************************************** 「The Dandelion clock」からの英文です。：主人公のAlexと知人と思われるMaxが電話で話している場面です。 "I got the key from him yesterday. I was going to call in again on my way back. But it's not that. It's--- the place is really run down, Max." のBut it's not that. は、Alexが帰りの途中で代理人に電話をしなかった（いまだにしていない）、ということですか？itとthatの代名詞が使われていてよくわからなかったのですが。 "I mean, it's a terrible mess. I don't think anyone would touch it the way it is at the moment." のat the momentは、「今の所は」という意味だと思うのですが、 I don't think anyone would touch it at the moment.とすると全体の意味が変わってしまうのでしょうか？ the way it is at the moment.の個所について、なぜthe way it isが入っているのかがわかりません。最後の方にあるIt needs work doing on it, that's all.のon itは庭で、ということですか？workは単に作業の意味でしょうか？修理ですか？that's allとありますがthatはAlexが話した家の壊れた個所のことですか？それですべてだよ、みたいな。たくさんになってしまいましたが、教えてください。お願いします。

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‘Lena?’ ‘Yes?’ ‘Do you think Signor Ferucci’s a hermit?’ Lena shakes her head. ‘No. Just someone who keeps themself to themself.’ ‘Oh. All right.’ （前回の終わりの部分です） We walk on in companionable silence and, in my head, impressions of the hermit whirl, becoming confused with details Lena has mentioned until the church in which the man crouches has an interior like a cave, with rock walls and stalactites and bones, while at the entrance blazes a bonfire, sending up a column of smoke that alarms the distant townsfolk. Alex? comes a voice out of nowhere, sounding somehow bigger than the valley around me, and----- And the afternoon tumbles away from me and--- ‘Alex?’ Jamie says. I blink. ‘Hello,’ I say. He is crouched next to me. ‘Are you OK?’ ‘Yes,’ I say. ‘I didn’t hear you.’ ‘You were like you were asleep,’ he says, ‘but your eyes were open. I could see them. I kept calling you but you didn’t move.’ ‘I was thinking,’ I say. Saying this, I have found, usually works. ‘It was weird.’ I shrug. ‘I was just thinking,’ I say again. After a moment’s hesitation, he sits down on the flat rock beside me. ‘What were you thinking about?’ Now it is my turn to hesitate. I have become used to what to say to my parents, but perhaps this is not the right thing to say to Jamie. I look at him, and his brown eyes are interested, not suspicious. I say, ‘I was thinking with Lena.’ ‘Who’s Lena?’ ****************************************** 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。 becoming confused with details Lena has mentioned until the church in which the man crouches has an interior like a caveの個所でcrouches hasとあるのですが、動詞が二つ続いている感じがしています。どうなっているのでしょうか？？ And the afternoon tumbles away from me and---のtumblesの意味がよくわかりません。午後は私から離れて混乱する？？主人公が混乱している、という意味なのでしょうか？でもaway fromとあるので、どういうことなのかわかりません。 He is crouched next to me.のcrouchは「かがむ」という意味だと思うのですが、受動態になっている理由がわかりません。 Saying this, I have found, usually worksの意味がわかりません。これを言いながら、僕は通常仕事を見つけた？？教えてください。お願いします。

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‘There’s nothing here,’ he says, sounding frustrated. Then, ‘Wait – I know.’ He looks up at me again. ‘You’ll stay there?’ ‘OK.’ ‘Won’t be long.’ He turns and runs away across the lawn to the side of the house, and disappears from sight there. I cling on where I am, wondering what he is going to do. It is like a puzzle, like one of the ones my father gives me to stimulate my mind.　（前回の終わりの部分です） ‘Imagine, Alex,’ he says, ‘that you have three pieces of string.’ I try my best, and nod. ‘The first one is as long as two fingers. The second is as long as three fingers, and the third is as long as six fingers. Do you think if you put the first and second end-to-end, they’d be as long as the third?’ I stare at the table, but the words muddle me. String and fingers dance in my head: Lena shows me how to make a cat’s-cradle and pass it from person to person; I stretch string tight and twang it, feeling the quick-dying vibrations in my hands; I coil string tightly around my thumb and leave a red spiral mark when I take it off, neat grooves running all the way up. ****************************************** 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。（この英文は子供時代の回想シーンだと思われます） Do you think if you put the first and second end-to-end, they’d be as long as the third?’について、この答えは「no」ですか？？（最初の紐の長さは指２つ分、次のは指３つ分、３番目のは指6つ分なので、最初の紐と次の紐を合わせても3番目の紐の長さにはならない？） Lena shows me how to make a cat’s-cradle and pass it from person to personのpass it from person to personのところは、あやとりの作り方をLenaと言う人が主人公に示し、人から人へあやとりの紐を渡す（回す）ということでしょうか？（なぜあやとりをcat’s-cradleというのかがちょっと不思議なのですが） I stretch string tight and twang it, feeling the quick-dying vibrations in my handsの中の、the quick-dying vibrationsとはどういう意味ですか？教えてください。お願いします。

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I look for Orion, and find him almost at once, a small smile of acknowledgement twitching the corner of my mouth. There are a few clouds low on the line of hills, but leaning out of the window I can see that the sky overhead is clear.(前回の終わりの部分です） I find myself searching the darkness at the head of the valley for the winking green light that is my signal, but I am more than forty years too late. There is nothing there, and yet I still can’t get rid of it: the suspicion that I might catch it out of the corner of my eye – the three blinks of green from up by the dandelion clock that mean it is time to set off. I shake my head. There is no hermit any more. There never was a hermit; not a real one. I look up at the sky again. It’s not the time of year for the shooting stars yet; a few months must pass before the Perseids wash through the Earth’s orbit and burn briefly through the high atmosphere. Jamie tells me all about them. We watch them together. ＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊＊主人公のAlexはartistで、幼い頃過ごしたイタリアに帰ってきています。 JamieはAlexの幼友達です。 I find myself searching the darkness at the head of the valley for the winking green light that is my signal, but I am more than forty years too late. のところがわかりません。私は谷の頂上で暗闇を探している。。。私の合図であるウィンクしている緑の光に対して？？search for～で熟語になっているような気もするのですが。。。 There is nothing there, and yet I still can’t get rid of itの最後のitはthe winking green light ですか？ the three blinks of green from up by the dandelion clock that mean it is time to set off.ここのthe dandelion clockはこの作品のタイトルにもなっているのですが、ここの英文の意味はどうやってとるのでしょうか？(the dandelion clock はタンポポの綿毛？it is time to set off=出発の時間である？　from up byの前置詞が繋がっているところがよくわかりません） thatは関係代名詞でしょうか？先行詞はthe three blinks of green from up by the dandelion clockですか？教えてください。お願いします。

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And Alan Harper wants you to say something at a kind of drinks and vol-au-vents bash, which I know isn’t your kind of thing, but would be very good for the momentum of it all. It’s – wait a moment – it’s two days before, on the twenty-second. It shouldn’t be too difficult. Alex? Alex, are you there?’（前回の終わりの部分です） ‘Yes,’ I say. ‘Look, Max – I’m not sure—’ ‘I can get you out of it if you’re really not happy, but I think it would do us a lot of good. Get you some more sales. Get me some more commission. Please all of the people all of the time.’ ‘I didn’t mean the party. I meant – I was trying to say that I’m not sure I can be back tomorrow. It’s got complicated this end. I may have to stay a while longer.’ I have no idea why I say it. The words are out of my mouth before I’ve even thought them through. There is a sharp silence. At last he says, ‘Alex, how long are you talking about? The weekend?’ ‘Maybe,’ I say. ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Well, that’s all right – just. But let’s not cut things too close here. This is the big one, remember?’ ‘Sure,’ I say. ****************************************** 「The Dandelion clock」からの英文です。：主人公のAlexと知人と思われるMaxが電話で話している場面です。最初にある、‘Look, Max – I’m not sure—’ のLookと言っているのはどういう意味なのでしょうか？辞書には、命令形で（しばしば怒りやいらだちを示して）ほら、いいかい、とあったのですが、その意味になるのでしょうか？ Get you some more sales. Get me some more commission. Please all of the people all of the time.’ここは、you get～、I get～と読むのでしょうか？Get you～、Get me～の形がよくわからないのですが。また、 Please all of the people all of the time.は、人々たちのすべてと、時間のすべてを得よう（get）みたいな意味ですか？ It’s got complicated this end. はどういうことを言っているのでしょうか？this endとは？ There is a sharp silence.のa sharp silenceというのはどんな沈黙なのでしょうか？sharpの意味がよくわかりません。 how long are you talking about? The weekend?どのくらい話してる？週末？という訳ですか？意味が通じない感じです。 But let’s not cut things too close here.は、のtoo closeのところの意味がとりわけわかりません。今まで計画立ててきた事を間近に迫ったここで切らないようにしよう、みたいなことを言っているのでしょうか？セリフのところがほとんどよく意味がとれません。教えてください。お願いします。

Understanding Boundaries and Forms in 'The Dandelion Clock'

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わからない箇所を教えてください。

わからない個所を教えてください。

わからない個所を教えてください。

わからない個所を教えてください。

わからない個所を教えてください。

わからない個所を教えてください。

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わからない個所を教えてください。

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