原文
The Improvers DID know, all too well. Even the least imaginative among
them could picture the grotesque effect of half a mile of board fence
adorned with such advertisements. All thought of church and school
grounds vanished before this new danger. Parliamentary rules and
regulations were forgotten, and Anne, in despair, gave up trying to keep
minutes at all. Everybody talked at once and fearful was the hubbub.
語彙など
- imaginative:想像力に富んだ
- grotesque:奇怪な,グロテスクな
- board fence:板塀
- adorn:装飾する
- advertisement:広告
- vanish:消えてなくなる
- parliamentary rule:議院法規
- regulation:規制
- in despair:絶望して
- give up:〜をあきらめる
- minute:議事録
- at once:同時に,一気に
- hubbub:騒音