原文
After a wearisome drive the girls reached Spencervale and turned down
the "Tory" Road . . . a green, solitary highway where the strips of grass
between the wheel tracks bore evidence to lack of travel. Along most of
its extent it was lined with thick-set young spruces crowding down
to the roadway, with here and there a break where the back field of
a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stumps was
aflame with fireweed and goldenrod.
語彙など
- wearisome:退屈な,疲れさせる
- solitary:孤独な
- strip of grass:一区画の細長い草地
- wheel:車輪
- tracks:足跡
- bear evidence of:〜の証拠を示す,〜を物語る
- lack:欠如
- thick:茂っている
- spruce:トウヒ
- crowd:〜に押し寄せる
- expanse of:一面の〜
- stump:切り株
- aflame:燃え立って
- fireweed:焼け跡に生える雑草
- goldenrod:アキノキリンソウ