應用英文解釋法
東京英文週報社發行
(p. 101-105)
範例
If he were not ill he would attend the meeting.
As it is, he stays at home.
彼が病氣でなければ會に出るのである。
併し病氣であるから家に居る。
解説
As it is (was)......
=As things are (were).
=As matters stand (stood).
斯る事態にて。
斯う云ふ次第で。
故に
(But) as it is (was) not the case.
(併し)事実さうで無いから。
と解す可し。
此 Clause は常に Sentence の初に在りて目前の状態を emphasize し、且つ次の事を云はむとする理由として前の事を反復するものなり。例へば
If he were not ill he would attend the meeting.
As it is,
=(a)｜as things are, ｜
｜As matters stand, ｜he stays at home.
=(b) As it is not the case,｜
=(c) As he is ill, ｜
彼が病氣で無ければ其會に出るのである。
(a)さう云ふ次第で ｜
(b)（併し）さう（＝健全）で無いから｜彼は内に居る。
(c)（併し）病氣で有るから ｜
の如く As it is は (c) (But) as he is ill（病氣で有るから）に當るものにして場合に依り、現在とも過去ともなる外には其受く可き Clause の何たるを問はず、常に As it is (was) と云ふ一定の形式を以て前の Sentence を代表するものなり。而てこの Clause の前には上掲の如き Subjunctive の Sentence か又はそれと同樣假定の意の Sentence 有るを常とす。
次に As it is を用ひずして前の語を其儘反復せる一例を示す可し。
If I had been strong enough to sit up in my chair I should of course have bowed. Not being strong enough, I smiled my acknowledgments instead.
W. Collins
(Not being strong enough=As I was not strong enough=As it was).
私は倚子に起き直れるほど體がしつかりして居たなら勿論頭を下げたで有らう。併しそれほどしつかりして居なかたから頭を下げる代りに笑顔を作つて禮を云つた。
用例
1. "I should like to go far away on a pilgrimage, on some great exploit," she went on. "As it is (=But as I cannot go far away, etc.), the days pass by, life passes by, and what have we done?
Turgenev
私は何か大きな手柄をしに遠方へ巡禮に行きたいのです、それが出來ないから月日もたち、生涯もすぎ、何もなし得た事は無いのです。
2. Had we come from any other country we could not have had permission to enter Sebastopol and leave again under three days--but as it was (=but as we came from America), we were at liberty to go and come when and where we pleased.
Mark Twain
私共が米國以外の國から來たのならば我々はセバストポールに入り三日以内に再び去る許を得る事は出來なかつた、然し米國から來たのであるから好きな時に好きな所へ行つたり來たりする事が自由であつた。
Had we come=If we had come 來たならば。at liberty 勝手、随意、自由。
3. Had she brought a plate or saucer from the salon, it would have been all very well. As it was (=But as she did not bring a plate or saucer from the salon) she was obliged to keep her eye intent on her right hand, and to proceed very slowly on her return journey.
A. Trollope
食堂から皿か鉢でも持つて來れば善かつたらうに。さうでなかつたから右の手に眼を注ぎ乍ら極そろそろ歸つて行かなくてはならなかつた。
Had she brought=If she had brought 彼女が持て來たならば。
4. When the London carmen treat their wives as well as they treat their horses, I shall appreciate their sentiments of humanity; as it is (=As things are=But as they do not treat their wives as well as their horses), they only remind me of the love of the Turk for his dog.
Max O'Rell
若し倫敦の馭者、其妻を遇すること馬を遇するが如く善く有らんには余は其仁心を賞す可し、然るに今の有樣にては彼等は唯余をして土耳其人の犬を愛する事を思はしむるのみ。
remind......of を思はせる。
5. It was an injudicious speech. If Ronald had only caressed her, all would have been sunshine again; as it was (=but as Ronald did not caress, but scolded her), the first impatient words she had ever heard from him somote her with a new, strange pain, and the tears overflowed.
C. M. Braeme
それは輕卒な言で有つた。ローナルドが勞つてさへやつたなら萬事また晴れやかになつたで有らう、然るに上に云ふやうな譯であつたから、始めて良人から聞いた氣短かな言が新しい異樣な苦痛を彼女に感ぜしめ而て涙が溢れたのである。
6. These wounds were less severe than they would have been, had not the heavy jacket which I had on, cleansed the teeth of the lion in their passage. As it is (=As matters stood=But as it cleansed the teeth), the were soon cured and gave me no trouble afterwards.
N. N. R. IV.
此創は獅子が齒を立てた時に私が着て居た厚地のジヤケツが其齒を拭はなかつた場合よりは輕かつた、併し其齒を拭つたから、創は程なく癒えて其後その爲に困ると云ふ事は無かつた。
Less severe よりは輕い。had not the heavy jacket which I had on=if the heavy jacket which I had on had not......私が着て居た厚地のジヤケツが……しなかつた場合に。in their passage 齒が通つた時。
7. Poor human nature! Had he been an old man, even a middle-aged man, she would not have left him to his unmerited sufferings. As it was (=But as he was a young and handsome man), though she completely recognized her duty, and knew what justice and goodness demanded of her, she could not do it.
A. Trollope
人情の愚かさよ！ 相手が若し年寄りか、中年の人でゝもあつたら、こんな不都合な苦しみに捨て置く事はなかつたらう。併し相手が若い好男子であつたので、自分のす可き道は充分に知り乍らも道理上、親切上、充分に知り乍らも、それをする事が出來なかつたのである。
Had she been=if she had been 彼女が……であつたなら。demand of に要めた
8. What a great matter a little fire kindleth! Ten cents' worth of salt would have saved all the misery and distress. As it is (=But as there was not ten cent's worth of salt), Danbury has some twenty persons with damaged backs or legs, the owner of the building has four suits on hand for damages.
J. M. Bailey
あはれ、一點の火より非常な大事の起るものかな。十錢程の盬が有つたら、此災難を救うたで有らう。併しそれが無かつたからダンベリーには背中を痛めた人、脚を折つた人が約二十人出來、家主は四人の人から損害賠償を訴へられて居る。
