105. 助動詞のあとの動詞の省略
- She loves him as she would love her own child.
- She loves him as she would do her own child.
- She loves him as she would her own child.
いずれも「彼女は自分の子供を愛するように彼を愛する」という意味だが、助動詞のあとの動詞は反覆することもあれば、代動詞を用いることもあるし、省略されることもある。
例文1
"Anything else?" I asked, for Holmes was turning the pipe about in his hand, and staring at it in his peculiar pensive way.
He held it up and tapped on it with his long, thin forefinger, as a professor might who was lecturing on a bone.
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Yellow Face"
「ほかには？」とわたしは聞いた。というのはホームズがパイプをひねくりまわし、彼特有のじっと考え込むような目つきでそれを見つめていたからだ。
彼はパイプを差し上げ、骨について講義する教授のように細くて長い指でこつこつとたたいた。
例文2
When a woman has had a tiff with her husband and is sulking the rest of the day, she will put on, in the evening, half a dozen wraps, one on the top of the other; she makes herself absolutely inaccessible; she packs herself as she would a valuable clock that had to be shipped to the Antipodes.
Max O'Rell, Between Ourselves
夫と仲違いし、一日中ふてくされている妻は、夕方になると五着も六着も外衣を重ね着する。そうやって彼女は自分を絶対的に手の触れえない存在にするのだ。彼女は地球の反対側に送る貴重な時計を包むかのように丁寧に身ごしらえする。
例文3
It was clear that the cottage had at last been let. I walked past it, and then stopping, as an idle man might, I ran my eye over it and wondered what sort of folk they were who had come to live so near us.
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Yellow Face"
とうとう小屋に借り手がついたことは明らかでした。わたしはその前を通り過ぎてから、暇人がするように立ち止まって、小屋を見回し、どんな人がうちらのすぐそばに引っ越してきたのだろうと思いました。
