原文
Davy, however, was perfectly happy. He reveled in getting out in the
morning and shoveling out the paths to the well and henhouse. He gloried
in the Christmas-tide delicacies which Marilla and Mrs. Lynde vied with
each other in preparing for Anne, and he was reading an enthralling
tale, in a school library book, of a wonderful hero who seemed blessed
with a miraculous faculty for getting into scrapes from which he was
usually delivered by an earthquake or a volcanic explosion, which blew
him high and dry out of his troubles, landed him in a fortune, and
closed the story with proper ECLAT.
語彙など
- revel:大いに楽しむ
- shovel:ショベルで掘る
- henhouse:鶏小屋
- glory:誇りとする
- Christmastide:クリスマスシーズン
- delicacy:ごちそう
- vie:張り合う
- enthralling:魅力的な
- blessed:祝福された
- miraculous:奇跡的な
- faculty:能力
- scrape:窮地
- deliver:救い出す
- blow high, blow low:どんなことがあっても
- eclat:(フランス語)称賛