原文
Anne locked the schoolhouse door on a still, yellow evening, when the
winds were purring in the spruces around the playground, and the shadows
were long and lazy by the edge of the woods. She dropped the key into
her pocket with a sigh of satisfaction. The school year was ended, she
had been reengaged for the next, with many expressions of satisfaction.
. . . only Mr. Harmon Andrews told her she ought to use the strap
oftener . . . and two delightful months of a well-earned vacation
beckoned her invitingly. Anne felt at peace with the world and herself
as she walked down the hill with her basket of flowers in her hand.
Since the earliest mayflowers Anne had never missed her weekly
pilgrimage to Matthew's grave. Everyone else in Avonlea, except Marilla,
had already forgotten quiet, shy, unimportant Matthew Cuthbert; but his
memory was still green in Anne's heart and always would be. She could
never forget the kind old man who had been the first to give her the
love and sympathy her starved childhood had craved.
語彙など
- lock:〜に錠をかける
- still:静かな
- purr:(猫が)のどを鳴らす
- spruce:トウヒ
- playground:運動場
- lazy:眠気を誘う
- sigh of satisfaction:満足の溜息
- engage:雇う
- expression:表現
- strap:革ひも
- beckon:招く
- invitingly:気をそそるように
- feel at peace:心が安らぐ
- mayflower:5月に咲く花
- pilgrimage:巡礼
- grave:墓
- shy:恥ずかしがりの
- unimportant:取るに足りない
- green:生き生きした
- sympathy:同情
- starved:欠乏して
- crave:〜を渇望する