原文
The winter weeks slipped by. It was an unusually mild winter, with so
little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by
way of the Birch Path. On Anne's birthday they were tripping lightly
down it, keeping eyes and ears alert amid all their chatter, for Miss
Stacy had told them that they must soon write a composition on "A
Winter's Walk in the Woods," and it behooved them to be observant.
語彙など
- slip by:早く経つ,過ぎ去る
- unusually:いつになく
- trip:軽快な足取りで歩む
- keep alert:目配りする
- amid:真っ最中に
- chatter:おしゃべり
- composition:作文
- behoove:〜にとって義務である
- observant:観察力が鋭い