アンの青春 第十三章

CHAPTER XIII A Golden Picnic(36)

原文
"I wonder what a soul . . . a person's soul . . . would look like," said Priscilla dreamily.

"Like that, I should think," answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. "Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers . . . and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea . . . and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn."

語彙など
  • dreamily:ぼんやりと
  • radiance:燦然,輝き
  • sift:(篩を通るように)落ちてくる
  • birch tree:樺の木
  • shape:形状
  • feature:特徴
  • fancy:〜したい気がする
  • stain:染み
  • quiver:震え,振動
  • glitter:きらめき
  • transparent:透明な,透き通る
  • mist:霧,霞
  • at dawn:明け方に