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８月９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。

When the Albert Einsteins visited the US for the first time, they were given a dinner by the New York Times.  A corsage for Mrs. Einstein from the host arrived late, so the liaison placed the two orchids on her plate.  He expected Mrs. Einstein to put them on by herself.

Mrs. Einstein, however, was nearsighted, so she couldn’t see clearly what were on her plate.  She couldn’t see what other people around her were doing, either.  Assuming that what was placed on her plate was hors d’oeuvre, she began to eat it.  A waiter noticed that, and removed the orchids, but not quick enough to prevent part of the orchids to be eaten.

This caused a big commotion behind the scene.  They called an authoritative hospital, and asked whether eating an orchid was likely to hurt anyone.  The reason of the inquiry was not revealed as a diplomatic confidential information.  But the hospital had no recorded data on the subject, and could not give them the answer.

Thus, Mrs. Einstein, who didn’t know the fact that she had eaten part of the orchid flower, and that that had caused a big commotion, knew all her life after the dinner the answer that the great hospital did not, to the inquiry that was actually, “Will Mrs. Einstein be all right after eating the orchid flower?”, because she enjoyed her healthy life until her natural death some years later.

(This story is about the dinner party which took place in 1921.  Mrs. Einstein in this story should be the second wife, Elsa Einstein.)