赤毛のアン 第三十八章

CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the road(17)

原文
When it became noised abroad in Avonlea that Anne Shirley had given up the idea of going to college and intended to stay home and teach there was a good deal of discussion over it. Most of the good folks, not knowing about Marilla's eyes, thought she was foolish. Mrs. Allan did not. She told Anne so in approving words that brought tears of pleasure to the girl's eyes. Neither did good Mrs. Lynde. She came up one evening and found Anne and Marilla sitting at the front door in the warm, scented summer dusk. They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odor of mint filled the dewy air.

語彙など
  • noise abroad:言いふらす,広める
  • give up:断念する,あきらめる
  • foolish:思慮のない,愚かな
  • approve:賛成する
  • pleasure:喜び
  • scent:におわす
  • dusk:夕暮れ,たそがれ
  • twilight:薄明かり,たそがれ
  • moth:蛾
  • odor:におい,香り
  • mint:ミント
  • dewy:露を帯びた