アンの青春 第二十四章

CHAPTER XXIV A Prophet in His Own Country(6)

原文
"Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring," said Anne one evening to Marilla, as they sat on the front door steps and listened to the silver-sweet chorus of the frogs. "I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful . . . that they are alive, if for nothing else. I feel exactly as Eve must have felt in the garden of Eden before the trouble began. IS that grass in the hollow green or golden? It seems to me, Marilla, that a pearl of a day like this, when the blossoms are out and the winds don't know where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight must be pretty near as good as heaven."

語彙など
  • Thanksgiving:感謝祭
  • celebrate:祝う,執り行う
  • front door:表玄関
  • frog:カエル
  • ever so much:大変多く
  • thankful:感謝している
  • grass:草,芝生
  • hollow:くぼ地,谷間
  • pearl:真珠
  • sheer:完全な,純然たる
  • crazy:熱中した