原文
Diana also took a very pessimistic view of affairs.
"It will be horribly lonesome here next winter," she mourned, one twilight when the moonlight was raining "airy silver" through the cherry boughs and filling the east gable with a soft, dream-like radiance in which the two girls sat and talked, Anne on her low rocker by the window, Diana sitting Turkfashion on the bed. "You and Gilbert will be gone . . . and the Allans too. They are going to call Mr. Allan to Charlottetown and of course he'll accept. It's too mean. We'll be vacant all winter, I suppose, and have to listen to a long string of candidates . . . and half of them won't be any good."
語彙など
- pessimistic view:悲観的な見解
- affair:事柄
- horribly:ひどく
- lonesome:ひとりで寂しい
- mourn:嘆く
- twilight:黄昏どき
- airy:空気のような
- bough:大きな枝
- radiance:燦然,輝き
- rocker:揺りいす,ロッキングチェア
- Turk:トルコの
- mean:みすぼらしい
- vacant:空虚な
- string:列
- candidate:候補者