原文
Anne was welcomed back to school with open arms. Her imagination had
been sorely missed in games, her voice in the singing and her dramatic
ability in the perusal aloud of books at dinner hour. Ruby Gillis
smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May
MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a
floral catalogue--a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea
school. Sophia Sloane offered to teach her a perfectly elegant new
pattern of knit lace, so nice for trimming aprons. Katie Boulter gave
her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied
carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the
following effusion:
語彙など
- with open arms:諸手を挙げて,心から
- sorely:ひどく
- perusal:読むこと
- smuggle:こっそり持ち込む
- plum:プラム,西洋スモモ
- testament:聖書
- pansy:パンジー,三色スミレ
- floral:花の
- catalogue:=catalog,カタログ,目録
- species:種
- prize:重んじる,尊重する
- trim:装飾する
- perfume bottle:香水瓶
- slate:石板
- copy:写し取る
- scallop:(ホタテガイの縁のような)波形に仕上げる
- effusion:口をついて出る言葉(詩文など)
pansy