赤毛のアン 第二十章

CHAPTER XX. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong(1)

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