原文
"That" was a shallow woodland pool in the center of a little open glade
where the path ended. Later on in the season it would be dried up
and its place filled with a rank growth of ferns; but now it was a
glimmering placid sheet, round as a saucer and clear as crystal. A
ring of slender young birches encircled it and little ferns fringed its
margin.
語彙など
- shallow:浅い
- woodland:森林
- pool:水たまり
- glade:林間の空地
- later on:やがて
- be dried up:干上がる
- rank:はびこった,(草が)ぼうぼうと生える
- fern:シダ
- glimmer:かすかに光る,ほのかに見える
- placid:落ち着いた
- sheet:シーツ
- saucer:受け皿
- crystal:水晶
- slender:ほっそりした
- birch:樺の木
- encircle:取り囲む
- fringe:縁取る
- margin:縁