原文
Anne had come over to ask Mrs. Harrison for some of her yellow dahlias.
She and Diana were going through to Echo Lodge that evening to help Miss
Lavendar and Charlotta the Fourth with their final preparations for the
morrow's bridal. Miss Lavendar herself never had dahlias; she did not
like them and they would not have suited the fine retirement of her
old-fashioned garden. But flowers of any kind were rather scarce in
Avonlea and the neighboring districts that summer, thanks to Uncle Abe's
storm; and Anne and Diana thought that a certain old cream-colored stone
jug, usually kept sacred to doughnuts, brimmed over with yellow dahlias,
would be just the thing to set in a dim angle of the stone house stairs,
against the dark background of red hall paper.
語彙など
- dahlia:ダリア
- morrow:明日
- bridal:結婚式
- suit:似合う
- fine:すてきな
- retirement:隠棲場所
- old-fashioned:古風な,昔風の
- scarce:少ない
- district:地域
- thanks to:〜の結果
- jug:水差し,つぼ
- sacred:神聖な
- doughnut:ドーナツ
- brim:いっぱいに入れる
- dim:薄暗い
- angle:角,隅
- background:背景
- hall:玄関