赤毛のアン 第十五章

CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot(4)

原文
It was. Other people besides Anne thought so when they stumbled on it. It was a little narrow, twisting path, winding down over a long hill straight through Mr. Bell's woods, where the light came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as flawless as the heart of a diamond. It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead. Now and then you might see a rabbit skipping across the road if you were quiet--which, with Anne and Diana, happened about once in a blue moon. Down in the valley the path came out to the main road and then it was just up the spruce hill to the school.

語彙など
  • besides:〜の他に
  • stumble on:偶然出くわす
  • twist:ねじれる
  • wind down:巻いたネジがゆるむ
  • sift through:〜をより分ける,取捨選択する
  • emerald:エメラルド,鮮緑色
  • flawless:非の打ちどころがない,無傷の
  • fringe:縁取る
  • birch:樺の木
  • stemmed:茎のある
  • lissom:しなやかな
  • boughed:大枝
  • fern:シダ
  • starflower:星状の花をつける草本
  • lily of the valley:鈴蘭,スズラン
  • scarlet:緋色の
  • tuft:小さな房
  • pigeonberry:ヨウシュヤマゴボウ(の実)
  • spiciness:spiceの名詞(芳しさ)
  • now and then:たまに
  • once in a blue moon:ごくまれに
  • spruce:こぎれいな

lily of the valey

pigeonberry