画像引用：Harry Potter auction: How much are signed books worth? – BBC News
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9845/production/_102318983_6466a.jpg

９月６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。

The Women’s Action Committee for Lasting Peace, an organization in the United Nations in New York, wrote to George Bernard Shaw in London asking him to donate some autographed books for their fund-raising auction.

Shaw refused the request.  In his eyes, the Women’s Action Committee was a small fry in light of the cause of the United Nations, and he didn’t feel like bothering with them.  He roasted them in his reply.

The women put the letter up for sale in their auction.  And what happened was, while a popular autographed book brought them only $70, Shaw’s letter sold for $170.

The Women’s Action Committee, on which Shaw had looked down, proved a notch above him after all.  Instead of taking offense at Shaw’s letter, they took it as a superb item for their auction.  Their prediction proved right, and Shaw, ironically enough, ended up with contributing a great deal to the women’s organization he had despised by offering them what had far better worth than their original request which he had refused.