原文
Marilla glanced at the radiant young face and refrained from further
sarcastic comments. Perhaps some realization came to her that after all
it was better to have, like Anne, "the vision and the faculty divine"
. . . that gift which the world cannot bestow or take away, of looking at
life through some transfiguring . . . or revealing? . . . medium, whereby
everything seemed apparelled in celestial light, wearing a glory and
a freshness not visible to those who, like herself and Charlotta the
Fourth, looked at things only through prose.
"When's the wedding to be?" she asked after a pause.
語彙など
- glance at:〜をちらりと見る
- radiant:晴れやかな
- refrain from:〜を控える
- sarcastic comment:皮肉な言葉
- realization:認識
- vision:空想
- faculty:能力
- divine:天与の
- gift:天賦の才
- bestow:授ける
- take away:取り上げる
- transfigure:(外観をより高貴なものに)変える
- reveal:明らかにする
- medium:媒体
- whereby:(それによって)〜する
- apparel:衣服を着せる
- celestial light:神々しい光り
- glory:栄光
- freshness:新鮮味
- visible:目に見える