もらいたいと思います / 仕事が決まった / しようと / 徴兵事務 / 諦めつく

[eeky]

Hi,


1. これからの一年の間、皆さんにはぜひそれらを日本人と 一緒に楽しんで、すばらしい思い出を作ってもらいたい と思います。

My translation: "During the coming year, I very much hope you will all enjoy (celebrating) these (festivals) with the Japanese people, and will create some wonderful memories."

a) Is the subject of もらいたい the author, and is it reasonable here to translate ～てもらいたいと思います as "I hope"?

b) What is the purpose of に in 皆さんには? Is it to make the pattern 皆さんには ... ～てもらいたいと思います, showing the target of the author's hope?


2. 友達から、仕事が決まったというEメールをもらった。

What does 仕事が決まった mean here? I can translate it as "work is decided/settled", but I don't understand the overall context in which this is said.


3. 彼女の使い走りをしようと一人の少年が待機した。

Translation given: "A boy stood by to run errands for her."

How does しようと work? I assume it's the volitional form of する + と, but I'm not sure in what sense that pattern is being used here.


4. 辞任劇は来るべき徴兵事務にはさして影響はないであろ う。

Translation given: "The resignations would have little or no effect on upcoming indications."

a) What does 徴兵事務 mean? (I have no idea what "indications", which seems to be the English translation, is supposed to mean in this context.)

b) Does 劇 mean "drama" in the sense that the resignations caused a lot of fuss and activity?


5. 他の女にとられるよりは、諦めつくもん！

I thought this might mean "I'd give up rather than have you taken by another woman". However, if so, I don't really see in what sense "give up" is used. Wouldn't the speaker give up after the man she wants (I assume) has been taken by another woman, rather than as an alternative? Maybe I have the meaning all wrong...

 

[undrentide]

1.
a) Yes.
b) Yes.

2.
仕事が決まる usually means one got a job.
So the friend has been looking for a new job, and found it.

3.
「彼女の使い走りをしよう」と一人の少年が待機した。
The part in the brackets is the boy's intention.

 

[Toritoribe]

1) b)
Grammatically, yes, as undrentide-san answered. But semantically, it indicates the subject of 楽しむ and 作る as in your translation.

4) a)
徴兵事務 just means "desk work for military recruiting", so "indications" would be a free translation.

b)
Yes.

5)
The person she is talking with can be the man she loves, the woman who has taken him, or third person. Anyway, the woman who has taken the man she loves is her acquaintance, and she says it's better the person is her(= the acquaintance) and not another woman. (i.e., she thinks her acquaintance is a good person.)

 

[eeky]

Thanks guys.

I think I may be misunderstanding the structure of #5. I was trying to make sense of it like:

よりは = Instead of (suffering/undergoing)
（彼が）他の女にとられる = ... him being taken by another woman,
諦めつく = ... I would rather give up
もん = emphasises speaker's emotional involvement

I can't seem to make this fit the actual meaning, though. Where am I going wrong?

 

[Toritoribe]

他の女にとられるよりはあなた/彼女にとられるほうが、諦めつくもん

Does this make sense?

 

[eeky]

他の女にとられるよりはあなた/彼女にとられるほうが、諦めつくもん

Does this make sense?

Possibly, partly. As far as the original sentence is concerned, I'm thinking it should be:

よりは、諦めつく = (I would rather) accept (him being taken by you/her) than
他の女にとられる = ... (accept) him being taken by another woman

However, even if this is correct, I don't understand the purpose of が in your revised sentence. I mean, あなた/彼女にとられるほう can't be the subject of 諦めつく, can it? Usually I'm used to seeing things like ～ほうがいい, and I don't know what to make of ～ほうが、諦めつくもん.

 

[undrentide]

が here refers to the situation.
You can say it is the situation, not the speaker, who is the subject in the sentence.

諦めつく = It is more acceptable for me
他の女にとられるよりは、 = than getting him taken by another woman

 

[Toritoribe]

～のほうが私には諦め（が）つく
～のほうが私にはいい

In fact, the original sentence can be said just as あなた/彼女にとられるほうが、諦めつくもん. Thus, ～よりは and ～のほうが are almost always interpreted as a set even if the counterpart is not mentioned.

 

[eeky]

Thanks, I think I get it now.