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Every single light in their large house is completely off and the family car is nowhere to be seen, so they must have already left for the distant airport hours ago.

彼らの大きな家のあらゆる電気が完全に消え、家族の車もどこにも見当たらないので、彼らは何時間も前にもう遠くの空港へ出発したに違いない。

The expensive antique vase that always stood on the hallway table is now lying shattered on the floor, so the mischievous cat must have knocked it over during the night.

いつも廊下のテーブルにあった高価な骨董の花瓶が今や床に割れて転がっているので、いたずら好きの猫が夜中にそれを倒したに違いない。

She greeted the visiting professor warmly and confidently in fluent perfect French, so she must have lived in Paris for at least several long years at some earlier point in her life.

彼女は訪問教授を流暢で完璧なフランス語で温かく自信たっぷりに迎えたので、人生のどこかでパリに少なくとも数年は住んでいたに違いない。

There were muddy footprints leading directly from the back door all the way to the locked study, so someone must have broken quietly into the house while we were away.

裏口から鍵のかかった書斎まで泥の足跡がまっすぐ続いていたので、私たちが留守の間に誰かが静かに家に侵入したに違いない。

He looked utterly exhausted and could barely keep his tired eyes open during the long afternoon meeting, so he must have stayed up nearly the entire previous night finishing the report.

彼は長い午後の会議中、疲れ切った目をほとんど開けていられないほど消耗して見えたので、前夜ほぼ徹夜で報告書を仕上げたに違いない。

My honest brother was absolutely definitely in distant Tokyo all of last week on a business trip, so he simply can't have committed that terrible robbery in Osaka on Tuesday night.

正直な兄は先週ずっと出張で間違いなく遠くの東京にいたので、火曜の夜に大阪であの恐ろしい強盗を犯したはずがない。

The very young child can barely even reach the high kitchen counter on tiptoe, so she honestly can't have taken the heavy cookie jar down from the very top shelf by herself.

その幼い子供はつま先立ちでようやく高い台所の調理台に届くくらいなので、一番上の棚から重いクッキーの瓶を一人で下ろしたはずが正直ない。

You say you posted the important letter yesterday morning, but it can't have arrived at the office already, because the regular mail simply never travels that incredibly fast.

あなたは昨日の朝に重要な手紙を投函したと言うが、もうオフィスに着いたはずがない。普通郵便がそんなに信じられないほど速く届くことは決してないからだ。

The whole exhausted team had been working hard nonstop since dawn, so they can't have been deliberately lazy or careless about meeting that absolutely crucial project deadline.

疲れ切ったチーム全体が夜明けからずっと休みなく懸命に働いていたので、極めて重要なプロジェクトの締切を守ることに故意に怠惰で不注意だったはずがない。

She left the busy crowded party well before ten o'clock in front of dozens of witnesses, so she couldn't possibly have overheard that strictly private conversation in the back garden at midnight.

彼女は何十人もの目撃者の前で10時よりかなり前に混雑したパーティーを出たので、真夜中に裏庭でのあの極秘の会話を立ち聞きできたはずがない。

You were honestly driving far too fast and recklessly on that dangerous icy mountain road, and you could very easily have killed some innocent pedestrian or seriously injured yourself.

あなたはあの危険な凍った山道を正直あまりに速く無謀に運転していて、罪のない歩行者を簡単に死なせたり、自分自身を重傷を負わせたりしていたかもしれない。

If only you had simply phoned me the moment you arrived, I could have come down to the crowded busy station to meet you and helped carry all your heavy luggage.

着いた瞬間に電話してくれさえすれば、混雑した忙しい駅まで迎えに降りていって、あなたの重い荷物を全部運ぶのを手伝えたのに。

The talented young athlete trained so very hard for years, and she genuinely could have won that important national championship if she had not unluckily injured her knee just beforehand.

才能ある若いアスリートは何年も非常に懸命に練習し、直前に運悪く膝を痛めていなければ、本当にあの重要な全国選手権で優勝できたかもしれない。

Instead of wasting so many precious hours stuck in that terrible traffic jam, we could quite easily have taken the much faster express train into the busy city center.

あのひどい渋滞にはまって多くの貴重な時間を無駄にする代わりに、私たちはずっと速い特急列車で忙しい都心に簡単に行けたのに。

Looking back now, the careless company could have avoided the entire costly disaster altogether if it had only listened to its experienced senior engineers' repeated early warnings.

今振り返ると、その不注意な会社は経験豊富な上級エンジニアたちの繰り返しの早期警告に耳を傾けてさえいれば、費用のかかる災害全体を完全に避けられたのに。