Audiobook Dictation: “It seems to me as if…”

It seems to me as if my companions, the moment they touched me, would receive a severe shock like that from an electric eel.

仲間たちが私に触れたとたん、電気ウナギに触れたような激しい衝撃を受けるのではないかと思われた。

At ten in the morning the symptoms of storm become aggravated.

午前十時、嵐の兆しはいっそう強まる。

The wind never lulls but to acquire increased strength; the vast bank of heavy clouds is a huge reservoir of fearful windy gusts and rushing storms.

風はやむかと思えばさらに強さを増すばかりで、重く垂れこめた巨大な雲の塊は、恐ろしい突風と荒れ狂う嵐をたたえた巨大な貯水池のようだ。

I am loth to believe these atmospheric menaces, and yet I cannot help muttering:

こうした空模様の脅しを信じたくはないが、それでも私は思わずつぶやいてしまう。

The Professor made no answer.

教授は答えなかった。

His temper is awful, to judge from the working of his features, as he sees this vast length of ocean unrolling before him to an indefinite extent.

果てしなく広がる大海原を前にして、教授の顔のひきつりようから察するに、その機嫌はひどいものだ。

He can only spare time to shrug his shoulders viciously.

彼はただ腹立たしげに肩をすくめるだけだ。

"There's a heavy storm coming on," I cried, pointing towards the horizon.

「ひどい嵐が来ますよ」と私は水平線を指さして叫んだ。

"Those clouds seem as if they were going to crush the sea."

「あの雲は海を押しつぶそうとしているみたいだ」

A deep silence falls on all around.

あたり一面に深い静寂が降りる。