原文
Alas! Matthew did not know that Samuel, in the recent expansion of his
business, had set up a lady clerk also; she was a niece of his wife's
and a very dashing young person indeed, with a huge, drooping pompadour,
big, rolling brown eyes, and a most extensive and bewildering smile. She
was dressed with exceeding smartness and wore several bangle bracelets
that glittered and rattled and tinkled with every movement of her hands.
Matthew was covered with confusion at finding her there at all; and
those bangles completely wrecked his wits at one fell swoop.
語彙など
- set up:配置する
- dashing:威勢の良い,派手な
- droop:垂れる
- pompadour:ポンパドール(女性の場合は前髪を上に持ち上げる髪形)
- roll:目をギョロギョロさせる
- extensive:大規模な
- bewildering:ひどく困惑させる
- exceeding:過度の
- smartness:抜け目ないこと,粋なこと
- bangle:飾り輪,腕輪
- bracelet:ブレスレット,腕輪
- glitter:キラキラ光る
- rattle:〜をガタガタ鳴らす
- tinkle:チリンチリンと鳴る
- confusion:混乱状態
- at all:とにかく
- wreck:破壊する
- wit:理性
- at one fell swoop:一撃で,一挙に