★１日３分　英語で星の王子様(The little prince)★　#52 チャプター4　有料版

━━━━━━━【The little prince】━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 　 2020/09/26 No.52　　チャプター4　　有料版 　１日３分　英語で星の王子様(The little prince) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [本文] But since he was in Turkish national costume, nobody would believe what he said. Grown-ups are like that... Fortunately, however, for the reputation of Asteroid B-612, a Turkish dictator made a law that his subjects, on pain of death, should convert to European costume. [単語] reputation 　名声 law 　法律 subject 　　国民 convert 　　　変える [解説] 1行目 sinceはここではbecauseと同じ意味で「～なので」の意味の従属節を導く接続詞 として用いられています。 what he saidのwhatは先行詞を含む 関係代名詞で「彼が言うこと」の意味です。 4行目 a law that his subjects, on pain of death, should convert to European costume that his subjects, on pain of death, should convert to European costumeはa law を先行詞とする関係代名詞の節で、a lawを修飾します。 on pain of deathは at the risk of being killed as punishment, if you do not obey