ように translation help


Page seven in my book has the following text, which is linked to the next
sentence on page seventeen.

> 貫くような衝撃が顎から脳天を突き抜け、次第に目の前が真っ白になってゆく感覚に襲われる中、耳には銀髪の外国人の興奮した声が入ってきていた。
>
> (translation: The impact reverberates to the top of my head by passing
> through my jaw, as my mind gradually goes blank at the resulting sensation
> of defeat during her attack, meanwhile I hear the silver-haired foreigner’s
> intrigued voice.)

Page 17:

> たしか、殴られて気を失ったように思う。

I'm trying to translate the sentence in a way that the meaning of ように is
incorporated into the translation, but I'm having trouble with making English
sentences that sound right, and contain all the bits of the original Japanese.
The closest one I can make that sounds 'right' is missing the ように part:

> If I remember correctly, I recall losing consciousness to her punch.

And the one that I think is closest to the original that includes the ように part
does not sound grammatically correct in English:

> If I’m not mistaken, in order to remember her punch I recall blacking out.

Can someone tell me how I can improve my translation(s) of the page 17
sentence so that it is/they are as close to the original as possible?




I think the wall that you might be hitting when trying to incorporate ように in
your translation of

> たしか、殴られて気を失ったように思う。

is that you are incorrectly interpreting ように with a 目的（結果）meaning instead of a
推量 meaning. The phrasing you used in your second translation, "in order to
remember," hints that you might be interpreting ように with a 目的（結果）meaning like
it is used in the following sentence:

> 遅刻しないように、早く起きる
>
> Waking up early (in order to avoid being late / so that I will not be late)

But the よう in ように思う in this context has a 推量 meaning, i.e. what precedes it is
designated as a guess/inference.

Which means that your first translation,

> If I remember correctly, I recall losing consciousness to her punch.

is actually quite accurate.

Here is another possible translation:

> If I remember correctly, I think her punch knocked me unconscious.

Or if you would prefer a more liberal translation,

> Not quite sure, but I think I blacked out after eating one of her punches.

Source: [This article on the various meanings and usages of
よう](https://www.jpf.go.jp/j/project/japanese/teach/tsushin/grammar/201307.html)




I think the wall that you might be hitting when trying to incorporate ように in
your translation of

> たしか、殴られて気を失ったように思う。

is that you are incorrectly interpreting ように with a 目的（結果）meaning instead of a
推量 meaning. The phrasing you used in your second translation, "in order to
remember," hints that you might be interpreting ように with a 目的（結果）meaning like
it is used in the following sentence:

> 遅刻しないように、早く起きる
>
> Waking up early (in order to avoid being late / so that I will not be late)

But the よう in ように思う in this context has a 推量 meaning, i.e. what precedes it is
designated as a guess/inference.

Which means that your first translation,

> If I remember correctly, I recall losing consciousness to her punch.

is actually quite accurate.

Here is another possible translation:

> If I remember correctly, I think her punch knocked me unconscious.

Or if you would prefer a more liberal translation,

> Not quite sure, but I think I blacked out after eating one of her punches.

Source: [This article on the various meanings and usages of
よう](https://www.jpf.go.jp/j/project/japanese/teach/tsushin/grammar/201307.html)

