原文
The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink silk curtains of
Anne's early visions had certainly never materialized; but her dreams
had kept pace with her growth, and it is not probable she lamented
them. The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that
softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of
pale-green art muslin. The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade
tapestry, but with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few
good pictures given Anne by Mrs. Allan. Miss Stacy's photograph occupied
the place of honor, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh
flowers on the bracket under it. Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly
perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance. There was no "mahogany
furniture," but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a
cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet table befrilled with white muslin,
a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes
painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a
low white bed.
語彙など
- velvet:ベルベット,ビロード製の
- vision:構想
- materialize:〜を実現する
- keep pace with:〜と歩調を合わせる
- probable:ありそうな
- lament:嘆く
- matting:マット材料,マット
- flutter:はためく
- vagrant:気紛れな
- breeze:そよ風
- muslin:モスリン,白の薄い平織り綿布
- brocade:にしき(織)
- tapestry:タペストリー,つづれ織り
- dainty:上品な
- adorn:飾る
- photograph:写真
- occupy:占有する,陣取る
- sentimental:感傷をそそる,情緒的な
- bracket:張り出し棚
- spike:(麦などの)穂
- faintly:かすかに,ほのかに
- perfume:〜を芳香で満たす
- fragrance:芳香
- mahogany:マホガニー
- cushioned:クッション性のある
- wicker:やなぎ細工の
- rocker:揺りいす
- toilet:化粧
- frilled:フリルをつけた
- muslin:モスリン
- quaint:風変わりな
- gilt-framed:金色の額に入った
- chubby:丸ぽちゃの
- Cupid:キューピッド
- arched top:アーチド･トップ,弓なり加工した上面
- used to:昔は〜していた