アンの青春 第二十七章

CHAPTER XXVII An Afternoon at the Stone House(31)

原文
While Anne was not beautiful in any strictly defined sense of the word she possessed a certain evasive charm and distinction of appearance that left beholders with a pleasurable sense of satisfaction in that softly rounded girlhood of hers, with all its strongly felt potentialities. Those who knew Anne best felt, without realizing that they felt it, that her greatest attraction was the aura of possibility surrounding her. . . the power of future development that was in her. She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

語彙など
  • strictly:厳密に
  • define:〜を定義する
  • possess:保有する
  • evasive:捕えがたい
  • charm:魅力
  • distinction:差異
  • beholder:見る人
  • girlhood:少女時代
  • potentiality:可能性
  • aura:オーラ,雰囲気