一日一文英訳してみましょう！ 以下、解答例と僕の英作文に対してネイティブからもらったアドバイスも載せました。
ムムッ～、このお題、どう訳そうか。
解答例
He took me to a restaurant where the room lights were very bright, the waiters were very polite, and the dishes were certainly worth five times their actual prices.
解説
問題文 照明がたいへん明るく、礼儀正しいウェイターがいて、実際の値打ちより確かに５倍もする料理を出すようなところへ、彼は私を連れて行った。
・照明が明るい：room lights are bright
・礼儀正しい：polite
・ウェイター：waiter, waitress
・実際の値打ちより5倍もする：be worth five times one’s actual prices
・連れて行く：take 人 to 場所
僕の英作文
He took me to a place whose room lights were very bright, servants were very polite, and dishes were certainly five times as valuable as their actual prices.
ネイティブからのアドバイス
・”whose” is basically correct, but it is a little confusing to see “whose” applied to “room lights, waiters, dishes” when each phrase is quite long.
・”servants” is used to refer to people literally employed as menial labor to wait on others full-time (by royal families or the nobility, etc.). It is quite rare to see this word used in a modern context. In a restaurant, you want to use “waiters,” “waitresses,” or if you prefer a gender-neutral term, “waitstaff.”
・”valuable” in terms of money usually refers to something like gold or antiques with a high monetary value; we would not say that food is valuable in this sense. If you want to say that the food was extremely cheap for how good it was, you can write something like “the dishes were worth five times their actual prices.”
いっぱいもらったなぁ~
