原文
"Ain't it an awful nice-smelling evening?" asked Davy, sniffing
delightedly as he swung a hoe in his grimy hands. He had been working
in his garden. That spring Marilla, by way of turning Davy's passion for
reveling in mud and clay into useful channels, had given him and Dora
a small plot of ground for a garden. Both had eagerly gone to work in
a characteristic fashion. Dora planted, weeded, and watered carefully,
systematically, and dispassionately. As a result, her plot was already
green with prim, orderly little rows of vegetables and annuals. Davy,
however, worked with more zeal than discretion; he dug and hoed and
raked and watered and transplanted so energetically that his seeds had
no chance for their lives.
語彙など
- awful:たいへんな
- sniff:においを嗅ぐ
- delightedly:うれしそうに
- swing a hoe:鍬を振るう
- grimy hands:汚れた手
- passion for:〜への情熱
- revel in:〜を大いに楽しむ
- mud:泥
- clay:粘土
- channel:方向,水路
- plot:小区画の土地
- characteristic:独特の
- fashion:やり方
- weed:雑草をとる
- systematically:整然と
- dispassionately:冷静に
- as a result:結果として
- prim:整った
- orderly:規則正しい
- row:列
- annual:一年生植物
- zeal:熱意
- discretion:慎重さ
- dig:掘る
- hoe:くわで掘る
- rake:熊手でかく,かき払う
- transplant:移植する
- energetically:精力的に
- seed:種子