Hi,
1. Describing an optical illusion:
絵を見ている少年に話しかけても振り向くはずがない（写真２）。実はそれも絵の一部なのだ。しかし、後ろ姿を見ていると、今にも振り向きそうに感じるから不思議である。
My translation: "You also can't turn round to chat to the boy looking at the picture. In fact, he's part of the picture too. However, when you see the back of the figure [i.e. the back of the boy who is looking at the picture], it's amazing how it seems like he's just about to turn around."
Is this correct? I am unsure, especially, about the subjects of some of the verbs, like 振り向く in the first sentence.
2. 私を含めて、全部で１０人で行くことになった。
My translation: "Including me, in all ten people will be going."
a) Is 全部で a set form of words? I probably should know this, but I'm having a blank about the use of で.
b) What is the purpose of the second で? I thought it might have a sense of "with" or "among", but I don't see how that works with the rest of the sentence.
3. These are three remaining sentences in a fill-in-the-blanks exercise.
1. 重要だと思ったところに線を＿おく。
2. いろいろ＿、勉強になった。
3. 実際にやってみて、その大変さを＿。
The remaining words to be inserted, with any necessary changes of grammatical form, are 体験する, 実感する and ひく.
a) I'm assuming #1 needs ひく, but what is the resulting sentence talking about? Is it talking about underlining important parts of a text? Is the sentence describing what the speaker is doing, or habitually does, or is it an imperative?
b) I'm assuming #3 needs 実感する, and that it's basically talking about realising the difficulty of something when one tries to do it. However, I'm not sure who is the likely subject (the speaker? the reader? people in general?), or what tense is appropriate.
c) By a process of elimination I assume #2 needs 体験する, but I'm not certain of the meaning. Is it roughly something like "Wide/varied experience is as good as study"?
4. 入学試験にパスし、希望の大学に入れた場合はいいが、試験に落ちた生徒は、もっとやさしい大学に入るか、卒業後一年間浪人する。
My translation: "It's fine if you pass the entrance exam and get into the university of your choice, but pupils who fail the exam either enroll at an easier university or spend another year studying for the exam after graduating from high school."
Is this OK? Does ...入るか... 間浪人する mean "pupils do A or do B" as I translated it, or is there a more complicated sense going on? Originally I had "pupils must decide whether to", but I took that out because it didn't seem to be literally in the Japanese.
1. Describing an optical illusion:
絵を見ている少年に話しかけても振り向くはずがない（写真２）。実はそれも絵の一部なのだ。しかし、後ろ姿を見ていると、今にも振り向きそうに感じるから不思議である。
My translation: "You also can't turn round to chat to the boy looking at the picture. In fact, he's part of the picture too. However, when you see the back of the figure [i.e. the back of the boy who is looking at the picture], it's amazing how it seems like he's just about to turn around."
Is this correct? I am unsure, especially, about the subjects of some of the verbs, like 振り向く in the first sentence.
2. 私を含めて、全部で１０人で行くことになった。
My translation: "Including me, in all ten people will be going."
a) Is 全部で a set form of words? I probably should know this, but I'm having a blank about the use of で.
b) What is the purpose of the second で? I thought it might have a sense of "with" or "among", but I don't see how that works with the rest of the sentence.
3. These are three remaining sentences in a fill-in-the-blanks exercise.
1. 重要だと思ったところに線を＿おく。
2. いろいろ＿、勉強になった。
3. 実際にやってみて、その大変さを＿。
The remaining words to be inserted, with any necessary changes of grammatical form, are 体験する, 実感する and ひく.
a) I'm assuming #1 needs ひく, but what is the resulting sentence talking about? Is it talking about underlining important parts of a text? Is the sentence describing what the speaker is doing, or habitually does, or is it an imperative?
b) I'm assuming #3 needs 実感する, and that it's basically talking about realising the difficulty of something when one tries to do it. However, I'm not sure who is the likely subject (the speaker? the reader? people in general?), or what tense is appropriate.
c) By a process of elimination I assume #2 needs 体験する, but I'm not certain of the meaning. Is it roughly something like "Wide/varied experience is as good as study"?
4. 入学試験にパスし、希望の大学に入れた場合はいいが、試験に落ちた生徒は、もっとやさしい大学に入るか、卒業後一年間浪人する。
My translation: "It's fine if you pass the entrance exam and get into the university of your choice, but pupils who fail the exam either enroll at an easier university or spend another year studying for the exam after graduating from high school."
Is this OK? Does ...入るか... 間浪人する mean "pupils do A or do B" as I translated it, or is there a more complicated sense going on? Originally I had "pupils must decide whether to", but I took that out because it didn't seem to be literally in the Japanese.
