C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Reading (1)

They look as if I were committing an indecency.

-indecency: 무례, 성추행적인 행동, 외설

-as if 가정법 구문

 

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do. And not only in boyhood.

-주어는 shame – shame까지. 동사는 does. 

-shame은 우리의 악덕이 할 수 있는 것만큼 많은 것을 할 수 있다. 좋은 행동, 단순한 행복을 막는 일을 향해 가는데 있어서. 소년 시절에만 그런 것도 아니다. 

 

‘나는 읽은 적이 있다’: I once read the sentence ‘I lay awake all night with toothache, thinking about toothache and about lying awake.’

 

Merely confirm the monotonous, trad-mill march of the mind round one subject?

-그저 이 하나의 주제 근처에서(=한 가지 주제에 매달려서) 마음이 트레드밀을 걷는 것 같은 단조로운 작업을 확인하는 것(=확실하게 하는 것)?

 

I must have some drug, and reading isn’t a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all?—no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. 

-나는 조금씩 그것 바깥에 있다고 믿는다. = 조금씩 그 바깥에 가고 있다고.

 

Perhaps the bereaved ought to be isolated in special settlements like lepers.

-leper: 나병환자, 문둥이

 

Her absence is no more emphatic in t hose places than anywhere else.

-no more ~ than… 구문