赤毛のアン 第二十二章

CHAPTER XXII. Anne is Invited Out to Tea(4)

原文
Anne went to bed that night speechless with misery because Matthew had said the wind was round northeast and he feared it would be a rainy day tomorrow. The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day. Anne thought that the morning would never come.

語彙など
  • speechless:黙っている,言葉を失う
  • rustle:カサカサいう音
  • poplar:ポプラ
  • pattering of raindrops:雨垂れの音
  • faraway:遠方の
  • roar:鳴り響く音
  • gulf:湾
  • sonorous:響き渡る
  • haunting:耳にこびりついて離れないような
  • prophecy:予言
  • maiden:娘,乙女