時制は有力なヒントになりうる
〔基礎編〕次の文を訳せ。（時制に注意を払うこと）
１． ※Washoe was said to have acquired more than fifty deaf language signs.
※雌のチンパンジー
２． Although I am by no means rich, and never shall be, I have never been poor in the sense of wondering where the next meal is coming from.
３． I bought my watch about three months ago. I assumed that the more you paid for a watch, the better the watch you got.
〔応用編〕少し長めの文で力を試してみよう。
It had been a year almost to the day since Dick had left. He had not left because she’d gotten fat (as she liked to think sometimes). This man had gotten his doctorate in biology――the degree Sulka had given him, in a way, by working to support him. (途中省略)
Sulka had quit her job. Now she would pot her ※begonias. Now, no doubt, she would give birth to children.
Sulka dusted and polished and sang for a year, and in the spring of 1965, gave birth to their first child, a daughter. She and Elsie lived together in the sunny California house.
※begonia：a kind of plan
