原文
Far and wide was a white carpet, knee deep, of hailstones; drifts of
them were heaped up under the eaves and on the steps. When, three or
four days later, those hailstones melted, the havoc they had wrought was
plainly seen, for every green growing thing in the field or garden was
cut off. Not only was every blossom stripped from the apple trees but
great boughs and branches were wrenched away. And out of the two hundred
trees set out by the Improvers by far the greater number were snapped
off or torn to shreds.
語彙など
- knee-deep:膝までの
- hailstone:雹の粒
- drift:流されること
- heap up:積み上げる
- eaves:軒,ひさし
- melt:溶ける
- havoc:大惨事
- work:もたらす
- plainly:はっきりと
- cut off:切り取る
- strip:〜を剥ぎ取る
- bough:大枝
- wrench:〜をぐいとねじる
- set out:植え付ける
- by far:はるかに
- snap off:ポキッと折る
- tear:裂く
- shred:破片