| 受動態の動名詞 | | He was the kind of boy ( though I never knew this with certainty, because I never saw it ) who would help his mother carry in the groceries without being asked, not because he felt like it but because it was prescribed. | | 彼は、(初めての経験で確信をもってはいえないが)、そうしたいというわけではなく、そういうものだと決まっているからという理由で雑貨屋で母親が荷物を運ぶのを手伝うような男の子だった。 | | MARGARET ATWOOD/BLUEBEARD'S EEG |
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