183. 複合関係副詞 / 複合関係形容詞を使った譲歩 (2)
- However hard you may work, you cannot finish it in a day.
「どんなに骨折ってやっても一日で終えることはできない」。この譲歩節は次のように言い換えることもできる。
- No matter how hard you may work, ....
- Work as you may, ....
- Work as hard as you will, ....
- Even if you work ever so hard, ....
例文1
The range of human knowledge has increased so enormously, that no brain can grapple with it; and the man who would know one thing well must have the courage to be ignorant of a thousand other things, however attractive or inviting.
William Mathews, Getting on in the World
人間の知識の領域はとほうもなく拡大し、そのすべてに取り組むことは誰にもできない。一つのことをよく知ろうとする者は、ほかの千のことどもに無知となる勇気を持たなければならない。それらがどんなに魅力的で心を奪うものであっても。
例文2
However he may have suffered in his last cruise, he is always ready to join a new expedition; and the more adventurous its nature, the more attractive is it to his vagrant spirit.
Washington Irving, Astoria
前回の旅行でどれほどたいへんな目に遇おうとも、彼はいつもあらたな遠征に喜んで加わった。その遠征が危険なものであればあるほど、放浪を好む彼には魅力的に見えるのだ。
例文3
...experience has proved that discoveries in science, however remote from the interests of every-day life they may at first appear, ultimately confer unforeseen and incalculable benefits on mankind.
Robert Routledge, Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century
……科学上の発見は、一見日常生活とは関係なさそうに見えても、最終的には人類に思いもかけない、無数の恩恵を与えるものだ。
