きょんちゃみの英語ラジオ

① He saw a tall tree, some of the branches of which were broken.

= He saw a tall tree, and some of the branches of the tree were broken.

② She followed him down the corridor, at the end of which was the surgery.

= She followed him down the corridor, and at its end was the surgery.

③ He came to a town in the middle of which was a tall tower.

④ We observe only half the sky at one time, the other half of which is on the other side of the earth.

⑤ If you could write as fast as you speak, it would be an advantage. So people have turned their hands and heads to making simpler signs for sounds than our old alphabet. This is shorthand writing, by means of which people can keep up with the talker.

⑥ This is one of the few things in regard to which a good resolution would be absurd.

⑦ He set out on a dangerous adventure in the course of which he had to feel his way with the utmost care.

① Poetry has been regarded as something central to each man’s existence, something which he is better off for having and which he is spiritually poor without.

② The light waves we see the sun by left it eight and a half minutes before. Among the stars we can see, there are some from which the light takes thousands of years to come. Even the nearest star we see may have sent its light more than four years ago, though we seem to see it today.

③ Those who live in the city usually have to be content with a flat, to which, of course, not a square inch of soil is attached, and in which people of moderate means have to be content with the minimum of space.

④ He made his way in what he believed to be the right direction.

① We cannot know everybody whom it would be to our benefit to know, because there are too many of them.

② I believe there are a number of questions that it is no use our asking, because they can never be answered.

③ Beauty is a letter of recommendation which it is almost impossible to ignore.

④ The masses are likely to replace an unchanging mode of life by fashion which it will be in the economic interest of certain people to change as often as possible.

① I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

② Whatever right a country may have to preserve its own form of government in the face of foreign opposition, it cannot, with any justice, claim the right to exterminate many millions in countries which wish to keep out of the quarrel between the opinions for and against nuclear weapons.

③ John died, and Bill was the only son that she had to love.

④ Tell me all that you have to say.

⑤ When the best of what parents have to offer is combined with the best that schools have to offer, then success is all but assured.

⑥ The lesson that we have to give you is very simple, but it requires courage to put it into practice.

⑦ People from abroad want to see and take advantage of those things that our country has to give.

⑧ Perhaps, if the teacher is sympathetic and kindly, as many are, she will only smile a sweet, sad smile ———which from the point of view of the child is one of the severest punishments the school has to offer, since it shows him that he has hurt and disappointed the person on whose support and approval he is accustomed to depend.

① He is a gentleman whose acquaintance people have no desire to make.

② At last the police came to the house whose windows had been smashed by the infuriated mob.

③ Something had happened during his absence, of whose nature he was ignorant.

④ “What is love?” I asked. She drew me close to her and said, “It is here,” pointing to my heart, of whose beats I was conscious for the first time.

① The ring which my fiancé gave me has three diamonds.

② There is nothing new under the sun, and all the greatest artist can do is to discover new arrangements of existing elements.

③ Some insist that ends they believe to be good can justify means which they know quite certainly to be abominable.

① He is not the gay, impulsive lad that he used to be.

② I’m not the fool (that) you thought me.

③ The dramatist that you are must see how striking such a scene would be just at that moment.

④ Everybody has in him the beginning of the man he is to become, and the kind of boy he is now tells us the kind of man he will be.

⑤ Man can only be corrected by being shown what he really is.

① There is a man below (who) wants to speak to you.

① We expect everybody to feel toward us that tender love and profound respect which we feel toward ourselves.

② That sort of reading is especially good which gives the students some insight into the foreign nation’s peculiarity in the widest sense of the word.

① When we are employed in reading a great and good author, we ought to consider ourselves as searching after treasures, which, if well and regularly laid up in the mind, will be of use to us on various occasions in our lives.

② Children, who learn quickly, should start school as early as possible.

≠ Children who learn quickly should start school as early as possible.

③ It is a fine opportunity, which I would seize if I were not engaged.

④ There was a letter from Mary, which he insisted upon opening.