原文
The flat drifted under the bridge and then promptly sank in midstream.
Ruby, Jane, and Diana, already awaiting it on the lower headland, saw it
disappear before their very eyes and had not a doubt but that Anne
had gone down with it. For a moment they stood still, white as sheets,
frozen with horror at the tragedy; then, shrieking at the tops of
their voices, they started on a frantic run up through the woods, never
pausing as they crossed the main road to glance the way of the bridge.
Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying
forms and heard their shrieks. Help would soon come, but meanwhile her
position was a very uncomfortable one.
語彙など
- flat:平底船
- promptly:すぐに
- midstream:中流,途中
- headland:出鼻,岬
- stand still:動かずにいる
- horror:恐怖
- tragedy:悲劇
- shriek:悲鳴を上げる
- frantic:半狂乱の
- pause:休止する
- desperately:必死に
- precarious foothold:危険な足場
- meanwhile:それまでは