※英訳は「たいていの人は、~」以下のみでよい。
あなたは右手あるいは左手のどちらかの手で字を書いているという単純な理由で、右利きだとか左利きだとか思いこんでいないでしょうか。しかし、,燭い討い凌佑蓮右利きと左利きの中間にいると言えます。△海譴泙任困辰髪手で物を書いてきた人が、本当は、左手で用事を済ませていることの方が多いのに、それに気づいていないだけということも大いに考えられるのです。
屬燭い討い凌佑蓮
○ most people (mostは形容詞)
○ most of the people (mostは代名詞。ofの後には限定された名詞が来る)
× most of people
ただしこう書くとあとがtheir right hands になってしまって両腕のような印象を与えるのでよくない。Youで統一して単数で書き進めるほうがいい。
「右利きと左利きの中間にいる」
△ in the middle of~ 後ろに来るのは 単数名詞が普通だから不適。
EX. in the middle of December ; in the middle of the night
○ between right-handed and left-handed
「~と言えます」
It can be said that~=You can say that~=主語 can be said to~
「ほとんどの人は、右手と左手を同じくらいの頻度で使う」と考えれば
You use your left-hand [ left hand ] as often as your right-hand [ right hand ], and
this applies to [ is the case with ] most people.
apply to ~=be the case with ~「~に当てはまる」
◆屐舛箸いΔ海箸眤腓い帽佑┐蕕譴襦
It is very [ highly ] likely [ possible / probable ] that~
「それに気づいていない」
○aren’t [haven’t been aware of] it [ the cast / this fact / that fact ]
△ don’t find the fact yet
○ haven’t found the fact yet 時制は現在完了がベスト!
☆文構成
It is very likely that < while [ though ] sv >, S1 V1, and S2 V2 .
「これまでずっと右手で物を書いてきた」
○you have always written ( something ) with your right hand
※× by hand / × by your right hand
by + 手段・方法(普通、単数で無冠詞)
ex1. by plane [ bus / car / phone / fax ]
ex2. wash the clothes by hand 手洗いにする / write by hand 手書きにする
△you have used your right hand~ →これは避けたほうがいい。
(理由)「ものを書くときに」という部分をつないでいくことが極めて困難だから。
× when you write something
×you wrote something ・・・・when ~(過去形) は現在完了形と共に使えない。
×in writing 通例「文書の形で」という意味になる。
× writing something 分詞構文→省略された接続詞は何か?ということになればwhen になり不適。
(解答例1)
However, it can be said that most of you [ most people ] are between right-handed and
left-handed.
It is very likely [ possible ] that ( , ) while [ though ] you have always written with
your right hand, you have actually done other things with your right hand more often , and
you are not aware [ unaware ] of the fact.
(解答例2)
However, you can say that you use your left hand as often as your right hand, and this
applies to most people.
For example, very probably [ ○ in many cases / △ very possibly / △quite possibly ],
you have always written with your right hand and in fact you have done other
things with your left hand.
「大いに考えられる→ 多くの場合」ぐらいでごまかす。
[参考1]
probably ・・・used for saying that you think that something is likely
=likely・・・probably going to happen, or probably true
∨
possibly ・・・likely to happen or be true, but not certain
※possibly のほうが上の二つの副詞よりも起こりうる回数が低い。
[参考2]
YAHOO USA ヒット件数 (語が離れている場合でもヒットするので正確な数ではないが、おおよその
使用頻度の確認はできるのでYAHOOやGOOGLEは英作文を書く際に重宝する。)
very probably 2億件以上 very possibly 9千万件
quite probably 1億2千万件以上 quite possibly 5千万件
(某問題集解答例1)
Most people can be said to be both right-handed and left-handed. It is highly possible that
the person who has always written with his right hand just doesn’t realize that he uses his
left hand more often when he does other things.
(某問題集解答例2)
You can say that most people are somewhere between right-handed and left-handed. It is quite
possible that those who have always written with their right hand are in fact doing things
more often using their left hand. They simply don’t notice the fact.
(某問題集解答例3)
We can say most people are midway between left-handedness and right-handedness. A person who
has always written with his / her right hand may do many other things with his / her left
hand. It is likely that he or she has not noticed it before.