★[122-①: 学習院大学]
We are rarely able to see those who are very close to us as they really are because of our readiness to accept their faults and accentuate their virtues.
★[122-①: 学習院大学]
We are rarely able to see those who are very close to us as they really are because of our readiness to accept their faults and accentuate their virtues.
★[121: 京都産業大学]
In support of this theory, research has shown that chimpanzees and bonobos today use the same region of the brain to process hand
gestures as people use to understand words.
[解説②]
the same A as B「Bと同じA」をセットで考える。regionは「地域」の他にも「(学問の)分野」、「(体の)部位」などの意味が頻出。〈to process gestures〉と〈to understand words〉はどちらも不定詞の副詞用法[目的]で「~するために」と訳す。この2箇所が対になっている。
[120: 成蹊大学]
First, I was struck by what an incredibly violent place the rain forest is, with trees, plants, and vines all struggling with each other for sunlight, and animals, insects, and birds doing the same for food.
[解説②]
with以下は付帯状況で、with O C, and (with) O C と��り返されています。trees, plants, vinesに対してsunlight、animals, insects, and birdsに対してfoodと、それぞれ何を求めてお互い争っているかが分けて書かれています。doing the same = struggling with each otherを表しています。
[119: 和歌山大学]
The purpose of informal or intimate talk is not so much status enhancement as establishing or maintaining social contact with others, making social connections, developing and reinforcing friendships and intimate relationships.
[解説②]
Bの中をさらに詳しく見ると、establishとmaintainはともに他動詞なので、social contact with othersを共通の目的語をして考えます。同様に、developとreinforceも他動詞なので��friendships and intimate relationshipsを共通の目的語と考えます。
[解説①]
ポイントは、not so much A as B 「AというよりむしろB」の熟語表現です。A = [status enhancement], B = [establishing ~ relationships] です。Bは、[establishing or maintaining ~], [making ~], [develping and reinforcing ~] と3つの動名詞が、並列の関係になっています。