早稲田大學敎授 深澤裕次郎著
應用英文解釋法
東京英文週報社發行
(p. 128-131)
範例
I
(a) I will nurse her as best I｜can.
｜may.
(b) I nursed her as best I｜could.
｜might.
(a) 私は出來るだけ充分に彼女を看護しよう。
(b) 私は出來るだけ充分に彼女を看護した。
II
(a) I will nurse her as well as I｜can.
｜may.
(b) I nursed her as well as I｜could.
｜might.
(a) 私は出來るだけよく彼女を看護しよう。
(b) 私は出來るだけよく彼女を看護した。
解説
I の as best は II の as well as の well が best となり、後の as が省略されたるものなり、これ強き語（best の如き）を用ひたる時には其影響として次の語は省かるゝ傾向有るに因る。
猶ほ as best one can (may, etc.) の形は極めて困難なること、又は不可能なる事を爲さむとする時に用ひられ「出來ねど及ぶ限り」の意を含む。
用例
1. After that, let them solve the problem of happiness as best they can.
Max O'Rell
幸福の問題はその後で十分に解決させるがよい。
2. His wife -- poor cat! who has to see in the dark -- goes on with her sewing as best she can.
Max O'Rell
細君……可哀想な猫のやうなもの、暗がりで見なくてはならない……は出來る丈け裁縫を續けて行く。
3. You must turn up your collar and shelter yourself as best you can against this hailstorm that beats upon you from all side, and jump into the carriage for you.
Max O'Rell
襟を立て出來る丈け身を包み、四方より飛び來るこの霰を防ぎ、待て居る馬車に飛び込まねばならぬ。
4. She returned to the dining-room and made her excuses as best she could.
Askew
彼女は食堂に歸つて出來る丈けうまく辯解をした。
5. I recovered myself as best I could, and followed my guide into the grim interior.
H. Conway
私は出來る丈け氣を慥かにもち、案内人について中の凄い所へ入つて行つた。
6. Mr. Grant Munro pushed impatiently forward, however, and we stumbled after him as best we could.
C. Doyle
けれどもグラント・マンロウはいらつて進んで行き我々はどうかかうか後に跟いて行つた。
7. He had to go and fetch every sack of coal, put it on his back, carry it with his bent body, and then aim at the hole as best he could.
Max O'Rell
彼は行き、石炭の袋を取つて背中に載せ、曲つた體でそれを運んで行き、それから出來る丈けうまく、穴に入れねばならなかつた。
8. "Very nearly, indeed," I answered, still panting, and arranging the rags of my nightdress round me as best I might.
H. R. Haggard
「いや、すんでの事に」と私は答へた、まだ恐ろしさに喘ぎ乍ら、寢捲の襤褸を出來る丈けうまく身に纏ひ乍ら答へた。
9. The Poles were our friends, it was true, but out of a hundred thousand men, only the Guard had wagons, and the rest had to live as best they might.
C. Doyle
如何にも波蘭人は味方ではあつたが十萬の兵の中で車輛を持て居るのは所謂近衛兵だけ、あとは何とか工夫して生活して行かねばならなかつた。
it was true, but は indeed (surely, certainly, etc.)......but と同じく「如何にも（なる程、尤も）……ではあるが併し……」の意。Guard は＊＊（二字不明）の近衛兵にして一萬五千人なりしと云ふ。
10. The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best she might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentrated at her bosom.
N. Hawthorne
この不幸な罪人は一千人の見物が其無慈悲な眼を自分に注ぎ、其眼を自分の胸に集中して居る中で、出來る丈け神妙に身を維持して居た。
the unhappy culprit は Hester Prynne と云ふ女にて晒し者になりたるなり。under the heavy weight of（の重き重量の下で）は「と云ふ辛さ耻づかしさの中で」なり。at her bosom 胸に縫ひつけ居る犯罪の印の scarlet letter（緋文字）を眺めてんり。
11. We had no lights, and it was as black as pitch within; so I tumbled forward as best I might, feeling my way by keeping one hand upon the side wall, and tripping occasionally over the stones which were scattered along the patch.
C. Doyle
燈は持ては居らず、中は眞つ暗であつたから、我々は一方の壁に手を掛けて探り探り折々は下に散つて居る石に足を取られ乍ら、やつと進んで行つた。
as black as pitch 眞つ暗、ぬば玉の如く暗い。stumbled forward 躓き乍ら進んで行つた。feeling my way (=making my way by feeling) 探り探り進んで。
12. This thought made me shudder in spite of myself; but seeing that I must sleep somewhere, I stifled my feelings as best I might, and returned to the cavern to fetch my blanket, which had been brought from the boat with the other things.
R. Haggard
斯う考へると覺えず身震ひがしたが、併し何處かで眠らねばならないのだから、私は出來る丈け恐ろしさを抑へ、毛布を取りに洞穴に歸つて行つた。其毛布は他のものと一緒に船から持つて來たのであつた。
