原文
"It's the sweetest, prettiest place I ever saw or imagined," said Anne
delightedly. "It looks like a bit out of a story book or a dream."
The house was a low-eaved structure built of undressed blocks of red Island sandstone, with a little peaked roof out of which peered two dormer windows, with quaint wooden hoods over them, and two great chimneys. The whole house was covered with a luxuriant growth of ivy, finding easy foothold on the rough stonework and turned by autumn frosts to most beautiful bronze and wine-red tints.
語彙など
- delightedly:うれしそうに
- look like:〜のように見える
- eave:軒庇(建築)
- undressed:略装の,手入れしていない
- sandstone:砂岩
- peaked roof:まびさしのある屋根
- peer:垣間見る
- dormer window:屋根窓,屋根裏部屋の採光のための窓
- quaint:風変わりな,古風で趣のある
- hood:フード
- chimney:煙突
- luxuriant:繁茂した,鬱蒼と茂った
- ivy:セイヨウキヅタ,ツタ
- foothold:足場
- rough:荒れた
- stonework:石造物
- frost:霜,寒気
- bronze:青銅色
- wine red:ワインレッド,赤ブドウ酒色
- tint:色合い