原文
Marilla was thinking of her whole past life, her cramped but not unhappy
childhood, the jealously hidden dreams and the blighted hopes of her
girlhood, the long, gray, narrow, monotonous years of dull middle life
that followed. And the coming of Anne--the vivid, imaginative, impetuous
child with her heart of love, and her world of fancy, bringing with her
color and warmth and radiance, until the wilderness of existence had
blossomed like the rose. Marilla felt that out of her sixty years she
had lived only the nine that had followed the advent of Anne. And Anne
would be home tomorrow night.
語彙など
- cramped:ひねくれた,窮屈な
- jealously:しっとして
- monotonous:単調な
- dull:味気ない
- vivid:生気に満ちた
- impetuous:激しい,衝動的な
- fancy:空想,想像
- radiance:輝き
- advent:出現