原文
Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such
exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered
by contrast. The house was a very old-fashioned one, situated on a
slope, which fact had necessitated the building of a stone basement
under one end. The house and out-buildings were all whitewashed to a
condition of blinding perfection and not a weed was visible in the prim
kitchen garden surrounded by its white paling.
語彙など
- homestead:家屋敷
- exceeding:過度の
- external:外観
- neatness:こぎれいさ,整然
- suffer:苦しむ
- by contrast:それに比べて
- old-fashioned:古風な
- necessitate:必要とする
- basement:基礎,基底部
- whitewash:水しっくいを塗る
- weed:雑草
- prim:堅苦しい,とりすました
- paling:垣,境界