Hello,
1. 私にはその仕事をするだけの技量がない。
Translation given: "I'm not equal to doing the task."
I thought this meant "I'm not only able to do this task", i.e. I can do other things too, which seems to be completely wrong. Is the meaning of だけ in this sentence connected with the meaning discussed in the recent thread here? Despite all the examples, I still cannot properly grasp this meaning of だけ.
2. 札幌で始めた直営のスポーツクラブを、来春には東京、熊本でもオープン。
Translation given: "A sports club under the direct management of the company has opened in Sapporo; two additional clubs are slated to open in Tokyo and Kumamoto next spring."
a) I am puzzling over the grammatical structure of this sentence. Is the following analysis correct?
来春には = Next spring
東京、熊本でもオープン = (the company) is also going to open, in Tokyo and Kumamoto,
直営のスポーツクラブを = sports clubs under the direct management (of the company)
札幌で始めた = that the company first started in Sapporo (i.e. the first such club was in Sapporo)
b) Is オープン a verb (implied オープンする)?
c) Is any special effect intended by using オープン, since Japanese has its own perfectly good word(s) for this? Sometimes I read that English words are used to impart a "sophisticated" flavour, or something like that, but I have no feeling at all for when this might be the intention.
3. この前の僕の英語のメール、間違いがあったら教えてほしいけど・・・。あんま り間違いを気にしないで、たくさんメールを書いて交換した方がいいかもしれませんね。
My translation: "I'd like you to point out any mistakes in my last English email. If we don't mind a lot of mistakes, perhaps we could exchange lots (more) emails."
I'm unsure here how あんまり間違いを気にしないで connects with the rest of the sentence. I translated with "if", but there seems no explicit sense of "if" in the Japanese, and I'm not even sure who is the subject of しないで.
4. ルームメートは、体に悪いと言って、いくら暑くてもエアコンを使 いません。
My translation: "My roommate is unwell, so he doesn't use the air conditioning no matter how hot it is."
a) Does he have some sort of ailment that makes him feel cold, so he doesn't want to use the air conditioning?
b) Does と言って have the sense of "because" in this case?
1. 私にはその仕事をするだけの技量がない。
Translation given: "I'm not equal to doing the task."
I thought this meant "I'm not only able to do this task", i.e. I can do other things too, which seems to be completely wrong. Is the meaning of だけ in this sentence connected with the meaning discussed in the recent thread here? Despite all the examples, I still cannot properly grasp this meaning of だけ.
2. 札幌で始めた直営のスポーツクラブを、来春には東京、熊本でもオープン。
Translation given: "A sports club under the direct management of the company has opened in Sapporo; two additional clubs are slated to open in Tokyo and Kumamoto next spring."
a) I am puzzling over the grammatical structure of this sentence. Is the following analysis correct?
来春には = Next spring
東京、熊本でもオープン = (the company) is also going to open, in Tokyo and Kumamoto,
直営のスポーツクラブを = sports clubs under the direct management (of the company)
札幌で始めた = that the company first started in Sapporo (i.e. the first such club was in Sapporo)
b) Is オープン a verb (implied オープンする)?
c) Is any special effect intended by using オープン, since Japanese has its own perfectly good word(s) for this? Sometimes I read that English words are used to impart a "sophisticated" flavour, or something like that, but I have no feeling at all for when this might be the intention.
3. この前の僕の英語のメール、間違いがあったら教えてほしいけど・・・。あんま り間違いを気にしないで、たくさんメールを書いて交換した方がいいかもしれませんね。
My translation: "I'd like you to point out any mistakes in my last English email. If we don't mind a lot of mistakes, perhaps we could exchange lots (more) emails."
I'm unsure here how あんまり間違いを気にしないで connects with the rest of the sentence. I translated with "if", but there seems no explicit sense of "if" in the Japanese, and I'm not even sure who is the subject of しないで.
4. ルームメートは、体に悪いと言って、いくら暑くてもエアコンを使 いません。
My translation: "My roommate is unwell, so he doesn't use the air conditioning no matter how hot it is."
a) Does he have some sort of ailment that makes him feel cold, so he doesn't want to use the air conditioning?
b) Does と言って have the sense of "because" in this case?
