原文
The Avonlea graveyard was as yet the grass-grown solitude it had always
been. To be sure, the Improvers had an eye on it, and Priscilla Grant
had read a paper on cemeteries before the last meeting of the Society.
At some future time the Improvers meant to have the lichened, wayward
old board fence replaced by a neat wire railing, the grass mown and the
leaning monuments straightened up.
語彙など
- graveyard:墓地
- solitude:人里離れた場所
- to be sure:確かに
- have an eye on:〜に気を配っている,〜に目をつける
- cemetery:墓地
- lichened:地衣の生えた(植物)
- wayward:気まぐれな
- replace by:〜と取り替える
- neat:こぎれいな
- wire:針金
- railing:ガードレール,手すり
- mow:刈る
- lean:傾く
- monument:墓石
- straighten up:体起こす