原文
Before the house was an oblong garden into which the lane gate where
the girls were standing opened. The house bounded it on one side; on
the three others it was enclosed by an old stone dyke, so overgrown with
moss and grass and ferns that it looked like a high, green bank. On the
right and left the tall, dark spruces spread their palm-like branches
over it; but below it was a little meadow, green with clover aftermath,
sloping down to the blue loop of the Grafton River. No other house or
clearing was in sight . . . nothing but hills and valleys covered with
feathery young firs.
語彙など
- oblong:長楕円形
- lane:小道
- bound:境界となる
- enclose:囲む
- dyke:岩脈
- moss:コケ
- fern:シダ
- spruce:トウヒ
- palm:手のひら
- meadow:牧草地
- clover:クローバー
- aftermath:二番刈り,二番草
- loop:環,波の腹
- clearing:空き地
- feathery:フワッとした