原文
Gilbert and Anne, happily unconscious that their future was thus being
settled by Mrs. Rachel, were sauntering through the shadows of the
Haunted Wood. Beyond, the harvest hills were basking in an amber sunset
radiance, under a pale, aerial sky of rose and blue. The distant spruce
groves were burnished bronze, and their long shadows barred the upland
meadows. But around them a little wind sang among the fir tassels, and
in it there was the note of autumn.
語彙など
- unconscious:〜に気付かないで
- settled:解決する
- saunter:散歩する
- harvest:収穫期
- bask in:〜に浴する
- amber:琥珀色
- radiance:燦然,輝き
- pale:青白い,薄い
- aerial:とらえどころのない
- spruce:トウヒ
- grove:林
- burnished bronze:艶出しされた青銅
- bar:ふさぐ,禁止する
- upland meadow:山地草原
- fir:モミ
- tassel:雄穂
- note:雰囲気,響き