桐壺94：亡き人のすみか尋ねいでたりけむしるしの釵(かんざし)ならましかば、と思ほすもいとかひなし。
帝は、これがあの長恨歌に出て来る「幻術師が冥界から持ち帰ったという証拠の釵」であったならどんなに嬉しかったろう、などと思ったりしたが、もとより甲斐のないことであった。
N君：仮定法の匂いがプンプンしますね。
He wished that they might have been the hair ornaments which people said a magician in the Chohgonka had brought with him from another world as the evidence that he met the heavenly Princess Yang. But the expectation was fruitless.
S先生：He thought how happy He would be if they were the hairpins a wizard had brought back from the other world, as was witten in "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow." But it was no use wishing like that.
N君：有名な It is no use crying over spilt milk.「覆水盆に返らず」の構文が出ました。no use の後にあった in が省略されたのですね。
