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Chapter 5 倒置形

例題5.2.1

女性ならではの視点？

　Perhaps even more interesting than the number of women employed in American business and industry is the fact that they own 70 to 80 per cent of all national wealth. These figures are accounted for in part by the fact that women survive men.

出典：Gladys G. Doty & Janet Ross: "Language and Life in the U.S.A.: American English for Foreign Students"（1960）

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例題 14.2.3
Most of the people who settled the United States were poor. The country they came to was a wilderness. Land had to be cleared of trees in order to make farms; mines had to be developed; houses shops, and public buildings had to be built. Everyone had to help build them. Manual labor was highly valued. Later it was the man who worked with his head to achieve success in business and industry who was looked up to. Now there is in America a curious combination of pride in having risen to a position where it is no longer necessary to depend upon manual labor for a living and genuine delight in what one is able to accomplish with his hands.
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