traipse: 터벅터벅 걷다walk or tramp about
“I don’t see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for,” said Marilla shortly.
mirth: (유쾌한·즐거운) 웃음소리, 즐거움great merriment
Tinkles of sleigh bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter.
threadbare: 새로울 게 없는, 뻔한repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
...Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea...
sate: (욕구를) 채우다fill to contentment
It was eleven when they got home, sated with dissipation, but with the exceeding sweet pleasure of talking it all over still to come.
dissipation: 소멸, 소실dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
It was eleven when they got home, sated with dissipation, but with the exceeding sweet pleasure of talking it all over still to come.
furtive: 은밀한; 엉큼한secret and sly or sordid
Diana preserved a discreet silence, but she and Anne exchanged furtive smiles of guilty amusement across the table.
pensive: (특히 슬픔·걱정 때문에) 깊은 생각에 잠긴, 수심 어린deeply or seriously thoughtful
Mrs. Lynde laughed comfortably over her mild joke, but Anne remained pensive.
telltale: 고자쟁이(어른에게 다른 아이의 잘못을 일러바치는 아이)someone who gossips indiscreetly
“I’m no telltale, Anne Shirley, and anyhow I was just as much to blame as you.”
valise: (옷을 넣어 다니는) 작은 여행 가방a small overnight bag for short trips
That evening Miss Barry gave Diana a silver bangle bracelet and told the senior members of the household that she had unpacked her valise.
capricious: 변덕스러운changeable
Spring had come once more to Green Gables—the beautiful capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.
limpid: 맑은clear and bright
Anne looked at her with eyes limpid with sympathy.
inexorable: 가차없는 impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
But Marilla was inexorable.
presentiment: (특히 불길한) 예감
a feeling of evil to come
“Wasn’t it fortunate, Marilla, that I took an extra handkerchief to school today? I had a presentiment that it would be needed.”
actuate: (기계를) 작동시키다: give an incentive for doing something
If Marilla, in going down to Mrs. Lynde’s that evening, was actuated by any motive save her avowed one of returning the quilting frames she had borrowed the preceding winter, it was an amiable weakness shared by most of the Avonlea people.
sojourn: 일시적인 체류a temporary stay
He was a widower when he came, and a widower he remained, despite the fact that gossip regularly married him to this, that, or the other one, every year of his sojourn.
dyspeptic: 소화 불량의, 소화 불량을 겪는suffering from indigestion
Mrs. Lynde says ministers are dyspeptic, but I don’t think Mr. Allan has been a minister long enough for it to have had a bad effect on him.
adulterate: (음식이나 음료에) 불순물을 섞다make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
Just suppose perhaps the baking powder isn’t good? I used it out of the new can. And Mrs. Lynde says you can never be sure of getting good baking powder nowadays when everything is so adulterated.
inveigle: 감언이설로 구슬리다influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
Matthew was there, having been inveigled into the party only goodness and Anne knew how.
anodyne: 온건한capable of relieving pain
I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment.
demure: 눈에 띄게 내심적인
shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment.
deportment: 몸가짐the way a person behaves toward other people
Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment.
sonorous: (소리가) 듣기 좋은, 낭랑한full and loud and deep
The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
pithy: 간결하나 함축적인concise and full of meaning
“The trouble with you, Anne, is that you’re thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her,” said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice.
seraph: 치품천사(구품 천사 가운데 가장 높은 천사)an angel of the first order
She was dressed in the sweetest dress of pale-pink organdy, with dozens of frills and elbow sleeves, and she looked just like a seraph.
untoward: (보통 좋지 못한 방향으로) 뜻밖의not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
They had a very good time and nothing untoward happened until after tea, when they found themselves in the Barry garden, a little tired of all their games and ripe for any enticing form of mischief which might present itself.
gamely: 투지 있게
in a plucky or sporting manner
Then Josie Pye dared Jane Andrews to hop on her left leg around the garden without stopping once or putting her right foot to the ground; which Jane Andrews gamely tried to do, but gave out at the third corner and had to confess herself defeated.
precarious: (금방 넘어지거나 사람을 넘어뜨릴 것처럼) 위태로운not secure; beset with difficulties
Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.
recourse: (힘든 상황에서 도움을 얻기 위한) 의지something or someone turned to for assistance or security
He had recourse to his pipe that evening to help him study it out, much to Marilla’s disgust.
inscrutable: (사람·표정이) 불가해한difficult or impossible to understand
Probably some wise, inscrutable motive was to be served thereby.
cogitation: 사고(력); 숙고attentive consideration and thought
After much cogitation Matthew resolved to go to Samuel Lawson’s store instead of William Blair’s.
contrive: 고안하다, (어려운 가운데도) 성사시키다make or work out a plan for; devise
He could contrive to deal with them when he knew exactly what he wanted and could point it out; but in such a matter as this, requiring explanation and consultation, Matthew felt that he must be sure of a man behind the counter.
ingratiating: 환심을 사려는calculated to please or gain favor
Miss Lucilla Harris inquired, briskly and ingratiatingly, tapping the counter with both hands.
humdrum: 단조로운, 따분한tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
Junior Avonlea found it hard to settle down to humdrum existence again.
beset: 괴롭히다
assail or attack on all sides
But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else.
complacent: 현실에 안주하는, 자기만족적인contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions
Anne nodded, trying hard not to look virtuously complacent and failing miserably.
opine: 의견을 밝히다express one's view openly and without fear or hesitation
No boys were allowed in it—although Ruby Gillis opined that their admission would make it more exciting—and each member had to produce one story a week.
rile: (사람을) 귀찮게 하다disturb, especially by minor irritations
But there! Here I am saying the very thing I was so riled with Rachel Lynde for saying at the Aid today.
veracity: 진실성unwillingness to tell lies
The peddler had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn’t wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.
impeach: …에 대해 의문을 제기하다challenge the honesty or veracity of
The peddler had certainly spoken the truth when he declared that the dye wouldn’t wash off, however his veracity might be impeached in other respects.
snood: (여성이 뒷머리에 장식으로 씌우는) 머리 망an ornamental net that confines a woman's hair
Diana says when my hair begins to grow to tie a black velvet ribbon around my head with a bow at one side. She says she thinks it will be very becoming. I will call it a snood—that sounds so romantic.