日本昔ばなしシリーズ　ネズミ観音さま

A mice which is covinced that he is the fastest runner in Japan, lose in a race with a horse, so he went to the Goddess of mercy to become a horse.

The Goddess of mercy agreeded with the mice in exchange for two requirements that to clean The Goddess of mercy and don’t do something bad for 35 days, and the mice made efforts a lot.

At the last day, the mice give rice cake witch the mice robed a girl of to the Goddess of mercy and the Goddess of mercy changed the mice to a horce which looks the horce but is mice size.

The Goddess of mercy knew that mice took the rice cake and changed the death horce which tried to come in the goddess of mery to make it up but died because of lack of stamina, into another the goddess of mercy on the back.

1,熟語　be convinced of　〜に自信がある

be sure of やbe confident of　も同じ意味、用法で使えます。ofを外してthat をつけて文を繋げる用法もありまあす。beleiveともよく似ています。

例文）I’m convinced that he will pass the exam.

私は彼がこのテスト受かる自信がある。

2,熟語　in exchange for 〜との引き換えに

exchangeがもともと両替の意味があるので　同じ価値のあるもの　と訳せばこれが〜との引き換えに、となるのも理解できます。

例文）I gave him this book which  I read many times in exchange for some sandwiches.

いくつかのサンドウィッチと引き換えになんども読んだこの本を彼にあげた。

3,単語　requirement　条件　要求

conditionやtermと置き換えることもできます。

My teacher impose a requirement on student.

先生は１つの条件を生徒に貸した。

4,熟語　rob A of B　　AのBを奪う

stealも同じ意味です。

例文）These strangers robbed me of books last night on that street.

複数の通り魔が自分の本を昨夜あの道で奪われた。