原文
Unfortunately for Anne, a professional elocutionist was staying at the
hotel and had consented to recite. She was a lithe, dark-eyed woman in a
wonderful gown of shimmering gray stuff like woven moonbeams, with gems
on her neck and in her dark hair. She had a marvelously flexible voice
and wonderful power of expression; the audience went wild over her
selection. Anne, forgetting all about herself and her troubles for the
time, listened with rapt and shining eyes; but when the recitation ended
she suddenly put her hands over her face. She could never get up and
recite after that--never. Had she ever thought she could recite? Oh, if
she were only back at Green Gables!
語彙など
- elocutionist:演説法の専門家,雄弁家
- consent to:〜を承諾する
- recite:朗読する
- lithe:しなやかな
- shimmer:揺らめく
- woven:織った
- moonbeam:月光
- gem:宝石
- marvelously:驚くばかりに
- flexible:しなやかな,柔軟な
- expression:表現
- go wild:大喜びする
- rapt:心を奪われている
- recitation:朗読