添削例①
添削例が見にくいようなので、ここで改めて投稿します。
Even though many women are forced to quit their jobs after getting married or giving birth, I believe that women’s social advancement leads to economic growth for three reasons.
First, if more women try to work as men do, many women will want to gain academic qualifications such as “Eiken” or “TOEIC” for getting ①(in order to get) better jobs. Some might go to school, ②; others might buy books to study for the qualifications. Then, education business will be expanded. (, expanding the education business.)
Second, when women with kids ③(children) want to work, they need to ask someone to take care of their kids ③(children) . Childcare is really inevitable for such women. The more women have their kids ③(children) go to preschool or kindergarten, the more workers are needed to take care of kids ③(children). Thus, ④the more employment will be created there.⑤ (in the childcare sector.)
Finally, in Japan, many women who work as part-time workers have to adjust their payment so as not to decrease ⑥(negatively affect) their husbands’ tax reduction. If they do not have to care about the reduction and are able to work as full-time workers, more women will be independent financially. Women’s financial independence is really important for ⑦the economic growth.
For the above reasons, I agree that women’s social advancement leads to economic growth. I hope that we are able to live in a society where men and women can work equally in the future.
①「物や行動、活動の目的」を述べる場合には、for + 名詞、for +ing を用いることができます
Ex. The mug had been used for mixing flour and water.
(このマグは小麦粉と水を混ぜるために使われていた)
しかし、「誰かが何かをする理由」を述べる場合に、for + 名詞句 を用いることは出来ますが、for + ~ing という形はあまり用いません。to不定詞や、in order to…を用いる方が自然です。
בI went to the city for finding work’.
○‘ I went to the city to find work’
○‘I went to the city in order to find work’.
②some と others が対比される時の例文です。句読点の使い方にご注意下さい。
Ex. Some people like the sea; others prefer the mountains.
*セミコロンを用いて節と節を結ぶ例
海が好きな人もいれば、山が好きな人もいる。
Ex. Some of the books are Tom’s, but the others are mine.
*コンマ+ but で節と節を結ぶ例
本のうち何冊かはトムのですが、その他は私のです。
Ex. Some say “yes,” some say “no,” and others say nothing.
「はい」という人もいれば、「いいえ」という人もあり、何も言わない人もいる。
*3つ以上の対比の例。
③kids は口語表現でよく用いられます。エッセイなどでは、children の方がよりよいでしょう。
④more は名詞句の前に限定詞として用いることが出来ます。more + 名詞の形です。
Ex. We need more time.
もっと時間が必要だ。
⑤there は直前で述べられた1つの場所を指します。ここで直前に述べられた場所は、preschool or kindergarten なので、there を用いるより、in the childcare sector を用いる方が自然でしょう。
Ex. The next day we drove 33 miles to Siena (the Villa Arceno is a great place to stay while you are there).翌日、我々はシエナまで33マイル車を走らせた (Villa Arceno はその場所の素晴らしい宿泊施設)。
Ex. My family lives in India. I still go there often.
私の家族はインドに住んでいます。いまだによくそこへ行きます。
⑥reduce a tax reduction は言いたいことは分かりますが、reduce(減らす)と reduction(減少;引き下げ)が一緒に用いられていて、どこか不自然な感じがします。negatively affect を用いるなど、表現を工夫しましょう。
⑦ここで急に the economic growth (その経済成長)と「その」を用いるのは、文脈上不自然です(漠然とした経済成長の意味なので)。何か意味が限定された「成長;増加」であればthe をつけます。
e.g. the rapid growth in violent crime
凶悪犯罪における急激な増加
e.g. the rapid economic growth of the 1950s and 1960s
1950年代、1960年代の急激な経済成長