原文
Anne had made good use of every waking moment of that fortnight. Already
she was acquainted with every tree and shrub about the place. She had
discovered that a lane opened out below the apple orchard and ran up
through a belt of woodland; and she had explored it to its furthest end
in all its delicious vagaries of brook and bridge, fir coppice and wild
cherry arch, corners thick with fern, and branching byways of maple and
mountain ash.
She had made friends with the spring down in the hollow--that wonderful deep, clear icy-cold spring; it was set about with smooth red sandstones and rimmed in by great palm-like clumps of water fern; and beyond it was a log bridge over the brook.
語彙など
- make use of:〜を利用する
- fortnight:2週間
- be acquainted with 〜:〜をよく知っている,〜に詳しい
- shrub:低木,潅木
- lane:狭い道,小道
- orchard:果樹園
- belt:帯,地帯
- woodland:森林地帯,森林
- explore:探検する
- delicious:実におもしろい
- vagary:予測できない変化
- brook:小川
- fir:モミ
- coppice:低林
- fern:シダ(類)
- branching:分岐
- byway:脇道
- maple:カエデ
- mountain ash:ナナカマド
- make friends with:〜と友達になる
- spring:泉
- hollow:くぼ地,谷間
- sandstone:砂岩
- rim:縁取る
- clump:茂み,群れ
- water fern:水生シダ(rimmed in by great palm-like clumps of water fernとあるので、文字通りの水生シダではなく、fern by the waterと考えたほうがよさそう)
- brook:小川
Fern
mountain ash(Sorbus americana):ナナカマド