画像引用：Funeral of Chester Bennington / RIP CHESTER / RIP LINKIN PARK /
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４月７日の英文添削「日本語での解釈例」への挑戦として以下のものを書いてみました。講師のどなたかに添削して頂き結果を後日投稿します。これを機会によい英文が書けるようになりたいと思います。

Mr. Doolan caught the bartender off-guard at Moriarty’s saloon and said, “Mike, my mother in law has passed away.  I’m to prepare the wreath to be placed on the casket, and it costs 10 dollars to uphold the Doolan standards.  It was way too sudden, so I have no money.  Can you lend me 10 dollars?  I’ll pay you right back.”

The bartender emptied his pockets and the cash register but the total came to $9.30.

“That’ll do,” said Doolan hastily.  “I’ll take the other seventy cents in drinks.”

For Doolan, once he grabbed the 9 dollars and 30 cents before the bartender changed his mind, the remaining 70 cents was scarcely a problem.  The undertaker might be kind enough to give him a discount, for one thing.  If not, Doolan could do with the wreath 70 cents less of the Doolan standards.  Since it would be known only to the undertaker and Mike, by telling others that he paid $10 for the wreath, he could still uphold the Doolan standards, couldn’t he?  Totally relieved to have secured money he needed for the moment, Doolan had the luxury of offering Mike another way of lending him the remaining 70 cents.  That was to put it on his tab for the drinks he would take, if Mike accepted his offer.