Hi,
1. せっかく評判の高い遠くの小学校を選び、わざわざ車の送り迎えま でして通わせているのに、と憮然たる思いだった。
My translation, "It was disappointing, since we had taken great pains to choose a distant junior school with a good reputation, where our son even had to be specially dropped off and picked up each day by car."
What is the purpose of たる, and which たる is it?
2. This is part of a narrated conversation between a husband and wife about problems with their son being bullied at school. The narrator is the husband. The husband initially tried to tell the wife not to worry so much because children are always fighting. Then the wife revealed that this bullying was happening almost every day. Then the husband reflected on the fact that they had specially chosen the school, per the sentence in the previous question. Then comes:
「それで、次郎はなぐり返しているのか」と聞いたら、 案の定、していないと言う。
「なぐり返さないなら、こちらが悪い。」
「なぐり返すなんて。次郎はやさしい子だから。第一、 そんなことで問題は解決しないわよ」
私はカッときて、
a) Are these lines spoken respectively by husband, wife, husband? I'm a bit confused because I thought わ was mostly used by women, and yet it seems to be spoken by the husband?
b) In the last line, who is the subject of 解決しない? Is it 次郎?
3. 「遥かなるケンブリッジ 一数学者のイギリス」
I understand this to be a book title.
a) What does 遥かなるケンブリッジ mean? I understand it is referring to Cambridge of course, and I know 遥か means "distant", but I don't understand the purpose of なる.
b) Is 一 a punctuation dash, or does it mean something like "a" (as in the indefinite article)?
c) I don't understand the meaning created by 数学者のイギリス. The author is Japanese, by the way.
1. せっかく評判の高い遠くの小学校を選び、わざわざ車の送り迎えま でして通わせているのに、と憮然たる思いだった。
My translation, "It was disappointing, since we had taken great pains to choose a distant junior school with a good reputation, where our son even had to be specially dropped off and picked up each day by car."
What is the purpose of たる, and which たる is it?
2. This is part of a narrated conversation between a husband and wife about problems with their son being bullied at school. The narrator is the husband. The husband initially tried to tell the wife not to worry so much because children are always fighting. Then the wife revealed that this bullying was happening almost every day. Then the husband reflected on the fact that they had specially chosen the school, per the sentence in the previous question. Then comes:
「それで、次郎はなぐり返しているのか」と聞いたら、 案の定、していないと言う。
「なぐり返さないなら、こちらが悪い。」
「なぐり返すなんて。次郎はやさしい子だから。第一、 そんなことで問題は解決しないわよ」
私はカッときて、
a) Are these lines spoken respectively by husband, wife, husband? I'm a bit confused because I thought わ was mostly used by women, and yet it seems to be spoken by the husband?
b) In the last line, who is the subject of 解決しない? Is it 次郎?
3. 「遥かなるケンブリッジ 一数学者のイギリス」
I understand this to be a book title.
a) What does 遥かなるケンブリッジ mean? I understand it is referring to Cambridge of course, and I know 遥か means "distant", but I don't understand the purpose of なる.
b) Is 一 a punctuation dash, or does it mean something like "a" (as in the indefinite article)?
c) I don't understand the meaning created by 数学者のイギリス. The author is Japanese, by the way.
