Results, had been
- ぼくの家は目障りだったけれど、小さな目障りだったから、見逃されていた。
- My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked.
- 調べを進めるうちに、頭蓋骨が、何か重い一撃を受けて打ち砕かれているのが明らかになった。
- Closer examination revealed that the skull had been crushed by some heavy blow.
- 大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。
- I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.
- 予鈴だ。校門の辺りにいた生徒たちが一斉に足を速める。
- It's the class bell. The pupils that had been around the school gate quickened their steps as one.
- 連邦議会がその法案を可決した結果、それまで以上に多くの国旗が焼き捨てられたに違いありません。
- I am sure that more flags were burned as a result of Congress passing that law than had ever been burned before.
- 例えあなたが立腹していたとしていても、あんな事を言うべきではなかった。
- You shouldn't have made such a remark even if you had been angry.
- 約束を果たさず一ヶ月が過ぎてしまったことに気が付いた。
- It was noticed after more than a month that that promise had not been carried out.
- 夜遅くに、若い男は少女とふたりきりで長い間客間に座っていた。
- The young man had been sitting in the drawing room alone with the girl for a long time and it was getting late.
Words
- 孟母断機の教え【もうぼだんきのおしえ】
expression:
- one should not leave things unfinished; when a young Mencius returned home during the middle of school, his mother cut off the cloth she had been weaving on the loom to admonish him for stopping his studies midway - proverb ➜ 断機
- たりけり
expression / auxiliary verb:
- auxiliary verb indicating past condition or occurrence (e.g. "was", "had been", etc.) - archaism
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