【長文OK】2ch英語→日本語part182
9 ：名無しさん＠英語勉強中：
How would you render into Japanese the last sentence in the following passage from "Red Dwarf"?
The recursive "it" refers to the imminent sudden death of the second speaker (= protagonist named "Lister").
The sentence is a complete definance to the tense and aspect system of the English language.
If you are bored and have time to kill, give it a shot.
> Rimmer smiled. "But it has happened. You can't change it, any more than
> you can change what you had for breakfast this morning."
> "But it hasn't happened, has it? It has will be have going to have happened,
> but hasn't actually happen happened."
The recursive "it" refers to the imminent sudden death of the second speaker (= protagonist named "Lister").
The sentence is a complete definance to the tense and aspect system of the English language.
If you are bored and have time to kill, give it a shot.
> Rimmer smiled. "But it has happened. You can't change it, any more than
> you can change what you had for breakfast this morning."
> "But it hasn't happened, has it? It has will be have going to have happened,
> but hasn't actually happen happened."
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