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英語 高３

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この青丸のthis はなにを指してるんですか？

becoming docterかと思いましたが違いますよね？

(1) Charles Drew was born in Washington, D.C., in 1904. When Drew was fifteen, his sister
died of tuberculosis. (As he watched [her condition get worse, Drew wished he could do
~につれて
something to help. It was then that he first thought about the possibility of becoming a doctor.
最初に思いついた
at
可能性
7 that time
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(2) There was only one problem with this idea: Drew was an African-American. In those days,
当時
much of American society was segregated, or separated, on racial lines: black people and white
becoming a docter
1種の境界線

Answer 1

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taka

this はなにを指してるんですか？becoming docterかと思いましたが違いますよね？
→　thisだけを取り出すのではなく、 this idea ＝ becoming a doctor と考えるのが妥当だと思います。
文の意味：彼が[医者になる]という可能性を初めて思いついたのは、その時でした。[この考え]には一つだけ問題がありました。

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