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１１月８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。

John Calvin Coolidge Jr., the 30th U. S. President, once invited some of his friends from his home state, Vermont, to dine at the White House.

No one among the guests knew table manners except the ones they observed at their homes, so they decided to do exactly as the President did.  The meal went without incidents until coffee was served.  The President poured his coffee into a saucer.  They did the same.  Some of them knew that in the 18th century Europe nobles did so to cool hot coffee and drank it from the saucer.  Some had also heard from old people that it was not uncommon for older generation to do so in the U. S. as well.  So, they though that they were witnessing the traditional table manners still kept in the White House.

Then, to their consternation, the President leaned over and gave his coffee to his cat.  His pouring coffee into a saucer had nothing to do with table manners.  He did so simply to cool coffee for the cat.

President Coolidge, in public, was known to be a skilled public speaker, but in private he was a man of so few words that he had been named “Silent Cal”.  In fact, when his guests at his party made a bet if they could get him to say more than three words during the party, he ended up saying only two words.  Knowing this, the guests from Vermont kept eating in silence imitating the President without asking him about his strange way of handling coffee, while the President kept his usual style of eating without speaking to anyone.