原文
Before them on the right extended Mr. Harrison's broad, gray-green field
of late oats, wet and luxuriant; and there, standing squarely in the
middle of it, up to her sleek sides in the lush growth, and blinking at
them calmly over the intervening tassels, was a Jersey cow!
Anne dropped the reins and stood up with a tightening of the lips that boded no good to the predatory quadruped. Not a word said she, but she climbed nimbly down over the wheels, and whisked across the fence before Diana understood what had happened.
語彙など
- extend:広がる
- broad:広々とした,広大な
- oat:カラスムギ,オート麦
- luxuriant:繁茂している
- squarely:堂々と
- sleek:つやつやした
- side:横腹
- lush:青々と茂った
- blink at:〜を見て驚く,〜を驚きの目で見る
- calmly:静かに,落ち着いて
- intervene:間に入る,邪魔する
- tassel:雄穂
- Jersey cow:ジャージー種の乳牛
- rein:手綱
- tighten:堅く締める
- bode:〜の前兆になる
- predatory:食肉の
- quadruped:四肢動物,四つ足獣
- nimbly:素早く,敏捷に
- wheels:自動車
- whisk:〜をサッと払う