Chapter 3 Flashcards
in full bloom
she saw that there was cherry tree in full bloom by her window.
[満開で]
drop on one’s knees / gaze
Anne dropped on her knees and gazed out into the June morning, her eyes shining with delight.
[崩れるようにひざまずく / verb: じっと見る]
scope
There was scope for imagination here.
[noun: (行動などの)自由、余地]
look on / unlovely
Anne had looked on so many unlovely places in her life, poor child;
[~を見る、見物する / 醜い、魅力的でない]
as lovely as / anything
woods and fields of the farm was as lovely as anything she had ever dreamed.
[素晴らしい、楽しい、嬉しい / pronoun: なんでも、どんなものでも]
make up one’s mind / declare
I’ve made up my mind to enjoy this drive, “declared Anne as they turned out of the gate.
[決心する / verb: 宣言する]
nearly / firmly
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
[adv: ほとんど、危うく、もう少しで / adv: しっかりと、かたく]
not even
I’m not even going to think about going back to the asylum during our drive.
[〜さえない]
wild rose
Oh, look, a wild rose.
[noun: 野ばら]
Don’t you wish ~ ?
Don’t you wish roses could talk?
[そう思わない?]
anybody / get to be ~ / grow up
Did you ever know of anybody whose hair was red when she was young, but got to be another color when she grew up?
[pronoun: 誰か / 〜になる / 成長する、大人になる]
be likely to ~ / either
“No,” replied Marilla, “and it isn’t likely to happen in your case, either.”
[〜しそうである / adv: ~も~しない]
sigh
Anne sighed.
[verb: ため息をつく]
graveyard
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
[noun: 墓地]
comfort
I say it to comfort myself when I’m disappointed.
[verb: 〜を慰める]
insist on doing / might as well
“Five miles, and since you insist on talking you might as well tell me what you know about yourself.
[〜すると言い張る / 〜するほうがましだ]
obey
Anne obeyed.
[verb: 〜に従う]
die of / afterward
My mother died of fever when I was three months old, and father died four days afterward from fever too.
[(〜がもとで)死ぬ / adv: あとで、その後]
take someone in / someone have ever seen
Mrs. Thomas, who took me in, said that I was the ugliest baby she had ever seen.
[身柄を引き取る / 未だかつてみたことがない]
even then
See, nobody really wanted me even then.
[その時でさえも]
overcrouded
they said it was overcrowded.
[adj: 人が多すぎる]
finish up with ~
Anne finished up with big sigh.
[〜で締めくくる]
except for ~
Except for at the asylum.
[〜を別にすれば]
not much / far away
Not much. It was too far away.
[〜と大差ない / 遠くはなれている]