英文解釈 C2（最上級）
ネイティブの教養層レベル。皮肉・文体・論理の綾まで読む。 全29問。
To hear him speak, you would think he had written the book himself.
No author is so skilled that an editor cannot improve the work.
The theory that he proposed and the theory that he was wrong are now equally famous.
There is nothing I could say that would make this easier to hear.
There is more wisdom in this proverb than appears at first sight.
He said he had read the contract, in which case he has no excuse.
He read the manual twice and was none the wiser.
He made five mistakes in as many minutes.
What was it about the letter that made everyone so uneasy?
She kept her notes vague, lest they be read by the wrong person.
You might as well ask the author directly as guess at the meaning.
The very ease of publishing has made being read the hard part.
The book's thesis, or what I take to be its thesis, appears only in the afterword.
Only one reviewer — and a retired one at that — dared to say the book was dull.
The report blames neither the engineers, who warned repeatedly, nor the managers, who never listened, but the structure that kept them apart.
It says something about the state of the field that this counts as a bold claim.
Few sentences survive translation with their rhythm intact, and fewer still with their jokes.
He writes the way a locksmith works: quietly, precisely, and always as if someone were waiting outside.
Nothing dates a book faster than its predictions, unless it is its jokes.
The argument, such as it is, rests on a single interview.
If the figures are anything to go by, the market has already moved on.
His prose is limpid: you forget you are reading and simply see what he describes.
He is nothing if not thorough.
You could do worse than start with the index.
That remains to be proven, to put it politely.
To say that the book is long is not to criticize it; some cathedrals take a while to walk through.
The editor found the author impossible and the deadline more so.
We thank the committee for its thorough review, which found nothing it was looking for and everything it was not.
He has strong opinions on every subject, several of them his own.