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1. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them.
They were so absorbed in their conversation that they seemed not to pay any attention to the people around them.
2. At last this intermezzo came to an end, and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.
At last the taxi trip came to an end and I suddenly found that I was in front of the gigantic City Hall.
3. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of
the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
The traditional floating houses among high modern buildings represent the constant struggle between old traditional culture and new development.
4. …experiencing a twinge of embarrassment at the prospect of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima in my socks.
I suffered from a strong feeling of shame when I thought of the scene of meeting the mayor of Hiroshima wearing my socks only.
5. The few Americans and Germans seemed just as inhibited as I was.
The few Americans and Germans seemed just as restrained as I was.
6. After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.
After three days in Japan one gets quite used to bowing to people as a ritual to show gratitude.
7. I was about to make my little bow of assent, when the meaning of these last words sank in, jolting me out of
my sad reverie.
I was about to show my agreement by nodding when I suddenly realized the meaning of his words. His words shocked me out of my sad dreamy thinking.
8. …and nurses walked by carrying nickel-plated instruments, the very sight of which would send shivers down
the spine of any healthy visitor.
…and nurses walked by carrying surgical instruments which were nickel plated and even healthy visitors could not help shivering when they see those instruments.
9. Because, thanks to it, I have the opportunity to improve my character.
I have the chance to raise my moral standards thanks to the illness.
10. The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone.
Ogilvie said these words suddenly and rudely, throwing away his pretended politeness.
11. When they find who done that last night, who killed that kid an’ its mother……or whether they got fancy
titles neither.
When they find out who killed the kid and the mother and then ran away, they’ll carry out the maximum punishment no matter who will be punished in this case or what their social position is.
12. The Duchess of Croydon-three centuries and a half of inbred arrogance behind her-did not yield easily.
The Duchess was supported by her arrogance coming from parents of noble families with a history of three centuries and a half. She wouldn’t give up easily.
13. Even the self-assurance of Ogilvie flickered for an instant.
The Duchess appeared so firm about their innocence that Ogilvie felt unsure of his assumption for a moment. But the moment was very short.
14. The house detective took his time, leisurely puffing a cloud of blue cigar smoke, his eyes sardonically on the
Duchess as if challenging her objection.
The house detective took his time smoking his cigar and puffed a cloud of blue smoke leisurely. At the same time, his eyes were fixed on the Duchess with contempt as if he was openly daring her objection as she had done earlier.
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15. There ain’t much, out of the way, which people who stay in this hotel do, I don’t get to hear about.
No matter who stays in this hotel does anything improper, I always get to know about it.
16. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.
The Duchess of Croydon is thinking quickly, but at the same time keeping her thoughts under control.
17. And when they stopped for petrol, as they would have to, their speech and manner would betray them,
making them conspicuous.
Furthermore, when they had to stop for petrol, their speech and manner would make them noticeable and reveal their identity.
18. There must be no mistake, no vacillation or dallying because of her own smallness of mind.
She mustn’t make any mistake, show any hesitation or deal with the situation carelessly due to her own smallness of mind.
19. “Don’t worry, son, we’ll show them a few tricks.”
Don’t worry, young man. We have some clever and unexpected tactics and we will surprise them in the trial.
20. The case had erupted round my head…
The case had come down upon me unexpectedly and violently.
21. No one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U.S.
history.
I was the last one to expect that my case would become one of the most famous trials in the US history.
22. “That’s one hell of a jury!”
The jury is completely in appropriate.
23. “Today it is the teachers,” he continued, “and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers.”
“Today it is the teachers who are put on trial because of teaching scientific theory,” he continued to say, “Soon the magazines, the books and the newspapers will not be allowed to spread ideas of science.”
24. “There is some doubt about that,” Darrow snorted.
“There is some doubt about whether man has reasoning power,” said Darrow scornfully.
25. …accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion.
…accused Bryan of challenging a life and death struggle between science and religion.
26. Spectators paid to gaze at it and ponder whether they might be related.
People had to pay in order to have a look at the ape and to consider carefully whether they and the apes could have a common ancestry.
27. Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a witness for the defense.
Darrow surprised everyone by asking for Bryan as a witness for the defense which was a clever idea.
28. …it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.
This dreadful scene makes all human endeavors to advance and improve their lives appear as a ghastly, saddening joke.
29. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.
The country itself is pleasant to look at, despite the sooty dirt spread by the innumerable mills in this region.
30. They have taken as their model a brick set on end.
The model they followed in building their houses was a brick standing upright.
31. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof.
These brick-like houses were made of shabby, thin wooden boards and their roofs were narrow and had little slope.
32. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.
When the brick is covered with the black soot of the mills it takes on the color of a rotten egg.
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33. Red brick, even in a steel town, ages with some dignity.
Red brick, even in a steel town, looks quite respectable with the passing of time.
34. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.
I have given Westmoreland the highest award for ugliness after having done a lot of hard work and research and after continuous praying.
35. They show grotesqueries of ugliness that, in retrospect, become almost diabolical.
They show such fantastic and bizarre ugliness that, in looking back, they become almost fiendish and wicked.
36. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.
It is hard to believe that people built such horrible houses just because they did not know what beautiful houses were like.
37. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly…
People in certain strata of American society seem definitely to hunger after ugly things; while in other less Christian strata, people seem to long for things beautiful.
38. They meet, in some unfathomable way, its obscure and unintelligible demands.
These ugly designs, in some way that people cannot understand, satisfy the hidden and unintelligible demands of this type of mind.
39. Its habitat is the United States.
The place where this psychological attitude is found is the United States.
40. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father……summer of freedom and adventure.
Mark Twain is known to most Americans as the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is noted for his simple and pleasant journey through his boyhood which seems eternal and Tom Sawyer is famous for his free roam of the country and his adventure in one summer which seems never to end.
41. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied-a cosmos.
His work on the boat made it possible for him to meet a large variety of people. It was a world of all types of characters.
42. All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that
seemed phonographic.
All would reappear in his books, written in the colorful language that he seemed to be able to remember and record as accurately as a phonograph.
43. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe
region.
He went west to Nevada by a horse-pulled public vehicle, following the flow of people in the gold and silver rush.
44. …Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.
Mark Twain began to work hard as a newspaper reporter and humorist to become well known locally.
45. “It was a splendid population-for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home…”
Those who came pioneering out west were energetic, courageous and reckless people, because those who stayed at home were the slow, dull and lazy people.
46. “Well, that is California all over.”
That’s typical of California.
47. “What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf
occasionally and renew our edges.”
If we relaxed, rested or stayed away from all this crazy struggle for success occasionally and kept the daring and enterprising spirit, we would be able to remain strong and healthy and continue to produce great thinkers.
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48. The last of his own illusions seemed to have crumbled near the end.
At the end of his life, he lost the last bit of his positive view of man and the world.
49. I observe with amusement how totally the concerns of the world, which once absorbed me to the exclusion
of all else except an occasional relaxation with poetry or music, have lost interest for me even to the extent of a bored distaste.
I was once so completely absorbed in the important affairs of the world that I devoted all my attention, time and energy to them and only occasionally did I allow myself a little rest by reading poetry or listening to music.
50. Or maybe Laura’s unwitting influence has called it out.
Or maybe my suppressed inclination has been called out under Laura’s unintentional influence.
51. Dismissive as a Pharisee, I regarded as moonlings all those whose life was lived on less practical plane.
I was as careless of others as a Pharisee and I viewed with contempt all those who lived a less practical life than my own and regarded them as inhabitants on the moon.
52. A hard materialism was my creed, accepted as a law of progress; any ascription of disinterested motives
aroused not only my suspicion but my scorn.
I firmly believed in materialism which in my opinion represented the law of human progress. When people said they did things out of unselfish motives, I suspected them and viewed them with contempt.
53. And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water colors of sunsets!
Just imagine how I have changed now. Here I stand, sentimental and sensitive, like an old unmarried woman painting a water-color picture of the sunset.
54. I want my fill of beauty before I go.
I want to enjoy beauty as much as I can before I die.
55. …no longer what people believe me to be, a middle-aged journalist taking a holiday on an ocean-going liner,
but……a vision of the world inspired from Olympus.
At this moment I am not the middle-aged journalist that people believe me to be, spending a holiday on an ocean-going liner. I have now become a liberated person, bathed in magic waters, and I feel I am like Endymion, a young and strong youth who has a god for his father and gifted with the power to see the world inspired by the gods at Olympus.
56. All weight is lifted from my body; I’m one with the night…
I feel that I am weightless and totally absorbed by the night and united with the night.
57. Thus, I imagine, must the pious feel cleansed on leaving the confessional after the solemnity of absolution.
Therefore, I imagine devoted religious people must feel as clean and pure as I do now when they leave the solemn confessional after gaining pardon for their sins.
58. So do I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character……for the discovery of the
venturesome.
In this way I let myself freely imagine what the innermost part of Laura’s character presents. She looks so severe outwardly, but inwardly she is full of tenderness- tenderness like delicate flowers waiting for the daring to discover them.
59. We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves.
We should all learn from the albatross and also know how far we can allow ourselves to go.
60. This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance.
Here I’m born anew, completely different from the past.
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62. …the Pacific alone dwarfs all the continents but together.
The Pacific Ocean alone is much larger than all the continents combined.
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64. I have been exhilarated by two days of storm, but above all I love these purposeless days in which I shed all
that I have ever been.
The storm that lasted two days has made me extremely excited and happy, but above all, I love these idle days in which I throw off all the qualities, perspectives, values and everything else that made me as what I was: I’m born anew.
65.
66. “I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.”
“I think the Red Army men will be surrounded and captured in very large numbers.”
67.
68. Hitler was counting on enlisting capitalist and Right wing sympathies in this country and the U.S.A.
Hitler was hoping that if he attacked Russia, he would win the support of capitalist and Right Wing in Britain and the US.
69.
70. Winant said the same would be true of the U.S.A.
Winant said the United States would adopt the same attitude.
71. ‘If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the house of Commons.’
I would say a word in favor of anyone who is attacked by Hitler, no matter how bad, how wicked or evil he had been in the past.
72. “The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.”
The Nazism has no lofty and righteous principle or goal, and cares only its ambition to conquer the western emisphere and to enslave the other peoples.
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74. “I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to
find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.”
I see the German bombers and fighters flying in the sky attacking the Russian army. They were once beaten by the British Royal Force, and now are happy because they think their new enemy in Russia is much easier and safer to conquer.
75. “We shall be strengthened and not weakened in determination and in resources.”
“We shall be more determined and shall make better and fuller use of our resources.”
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77. Let us redouble our exertions, and strike with united strength while life and power remain.
Let us strengthen our unity and our efforts in the fight against Nazi Germany when we have not yet been overwhelmed and when we are still powerful.
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