原文
Pushing through the undergrowth beyond, the girls came out to the young
green seclusion of Mr. Silas Sloane's back pasture. Across it they
found the entrance to a lane striking up through the woods and voted
to explore it also. It rewarded their quest with a succession of pretty
surprises. First, skirting Mr. Sloane's pasture, came an archway of wild
cherry trees all in bloom. The girls swung their hats on their arms
and wreathed their hair with the creamy, fluffy blossoms. Then the lane
turned at right angles and plunged into a spruce wood so thick and dark
that they walked in a gloom as of twilight, with not a glimpse of sky or
sunlight to be seen.
語彙など
- undergrowth:下生え
- seclusion:人里離れた場所
- pasture:牧草地
- entrance:入口
- lane:小道
- strike up:浮き上がらせる
- vote:投票する,賛成する
- quest:探索
- succession of:一連の
- skirt:〜の周囲をめぐる
- archway:アーチの下を通る道
- in bloom:真っ盛りで
- swing:動かす,揺らす
- wreathe:〜を飾る
- fluffy:フワフワした
- blossom:花
- right angle:直角
- plunge into:〜に突入する
- spruce:トウヒ
- gloom:暗がり
- twilight:黄昏どき
- glimpse:一目