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Good point, GaijinPunch. I had to blink more than twice to get it right.GaijinPunch said:I think you have to understand the English first to do a translation.![]()
I think Epigene's version made nice adjustments to fill in modifiers here and there to make the context transparent to everyone. But I tend to agree with you, the original is rather terse, not exactly foreign, but sounding old & unfamiliar. I wonder who wrote it and when?
最初は、この英文を理解できなかったのは、「undo ing」を「元の状態に戻すこと」と考えていたので混乱したためだそうです。
epigene said:そうですね。undo は do の反対語と思いやすいし、辞書で説明きれない使い方がありますしね。
これは、英語、日本語に限らず、語学の難しくて、面白いところですね。![]()