原文
All this might be quite true, and indeed, proved to be so, but it did
not materially help Anne in the first agony of homesickness that seized
upon her. She looked dismally about her narrow little room, with its
dull-papered, pictureless walls, its small iron bedstead and empty
book-case; and a horrible choke came into her throat as she thought of
her own white room at Green Gables, where she would have the pleasant
consciousness of a great green still outdoors, of sweet peas growing in
the garden, and moonlight falling on the orchard, of the brook below the
slope and the spruce boughs tossing in the night wind beyond it, of a
vast starry sky, and the light from Diana's window shining out through
the gap in the trees. Here there was nothing of this; Anne knew that
outside of her window was a hard street, with a network of telephone
wires shutting out the sky, the tramp of alien feet, and a thousand
lights gleaming on stranger faces. She knew that she was going to cry,
and fought against it.
語彙など
- materially:実質的に
- agony:苦痛
- homesickness:ホームシック
- seize upon:〜をぐっとつかむ
- dismally:惨めに
- dull:味気ない
- iron:鉄製の
- bedstead:ベッドの枠組
- empty:空の
- horrible:恐ろしい
- choke:窒息,閉塞
- throat:のど
- consciousness:自覚,感情
- still:静かな
- sweet pea:スイートピー
- orchard:果樹園
- brook:小川
- spruce:トウヒ(マツ科トウヒ属の常緑高木)
- bough:大枝
- toss:ぽいと投げる
- starry sky:星空
- gap:隙間,途切れ
- hard:硬質の
- telephone wire:電話線
- shutout:相手を封ずる目的で高くせり上げること
- tramp:重い足取り
- alien:よそ者,異邦人
- gleam:光る,輝く