原文
Its beauty seemed to strike the child dumb. She leaned back in the
buggy, her thin hands clasped before her, her face lifted rapturously to
the white splendor above. Even when they had passed out and were driving
down the long slope to Newbridge she never moved or spoke. Still with
rapt face she gazed afar into the sunset west, with eyes that saw
visions trooping splendidly across that glowing background. Through
Newbridge, a bustling little village where dogs barked at them and small
boys hooted and curious faces peered from the windows, they drove, still
in silence. When three more miles had dropped away behind them the child
had not spoken. She could keep silence, it was evident, as energetically
as she could talk.
"I guess you're feeling pretty tired and hungry," Matthew ventured to say at last, accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of. "But we haven't very far to go now--only another mile."
語彙など
- strike A dumb:Aを唖然とさせる
- lean back:後ろにもたれる,背をそらせる
- buggy:一頭立て軽装馬車
- clasp:握りしめる
- rapturously:熱狂的に
- splendor:豪華,壮観
- rapt:心を奪われた,うっとりした
- gaze:じっと見つめる
- vision:素晴らしい光景
- troop:ぞろぞろ集まる
- bustling:活気のある
- bark at:〜に吠えかかる
- hoot:わめく,叫ぶ
- peer:目を凝らしてじっと見る,垣間見る
- energetically:エネルギッシュに
- venture:思い切って〜する
- account for:とみなす
- dumbness:無言