原文
Spring had come once more to Green Gables--the beautiful capricious,
reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a
succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles
of resurrection and growth. The maples in Lover's Lane were red budded
and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad's Bubble. Away up in
the barrens, behind Mr. Silas Sloane's place, the Mayflowers blossomed
out, pink and white stars of sweetness under their brown leaves. All the
school girls and boys had one golden afternoon gathering them, coming
home in the clear, echoing twilight with arms and baskets full of
flowery spoil.
語彙など
- capricious:気まぐれの
- reluctant:渋っている
- lingering:ぐずぐずする
- succession of:一連の
- chilly:肌寒い
- miracle:奇跡
- resurrection:復活
- maple:メイプル,カエデ
- budded;芽ぐんだ,つぼみを持った
- curly:巻き毛の,巻いている
- fern:シダ
- barren:不毛の
- Mayflower:5月に花咲く草木
- sweetness:美しさ,愛らしさ
- echo:こだまする
- spoil:戦利品