英文解釈教室の出典を探る(48)

Chapter 8 意味上の主語

例題 8.1.1

アメリカの親子（子供に嫌われたくない親）

Most American parents dislike accepting the responsibility of restricting their children's pleasure and amusement; and there is a very general tendency for the parent first approached to put the burden of decision on the other. Most children learn this early, and become adept at playing one parent against the other. In those households where the father controls the children's pocket money, a refused application from the father will often be made good by the mother from her domestic budget. In many families it seems as though the ...

出典：Geoffrey Gorer: "The Americans: A Study in National Character", 1948

（参考）

（参考2）

例題1.4
Whether either the material or the intellectual changes in the past half century produced comparable changes in is difficult to determine. The forces that create a national character are as obscure as those that create an individual character, but that both are formed early and change relatively little is almost certain.

出典：Commager, Henry Steele, The American Mind, 1950