Anne of Green Gables — Page 4
"He doesn't generally go to town this time of year and he _never_ visits; if he'd run out of turnip seed he wouldn't dress up and take the buggy to go for more; he wasn't driving fast enough to be going for a doctor.
« Il ne va généralement pas en ville à cette époque de l'année et il ne rend _jamais_ visite à personne ; s'il avait manqué de graines de navet, il ne se serait pas habillé et n'aurait pas pris le boghei pour en aller chercher d'autres ; il ne conduisait pas assez vite pour aller chercher un médecin.
Yet something must have happened since last night to start him off.
Pourtant, quelque chose a dû se passer depuis hier soir pour le mettre en route.
I'm clean puzzled, that's what, and I won't know a minute's peace of mind or conscience until I know what has taken Matthew Cuthbert out of Avonlea today."
Je suis vraiment perplexe, voilà ce que je suis, et je n'aurai pas une minute de tranquillité d'esprit ni de conscience avant de savoir ce qui a fait sortir Matthew Cuthbert d'Avonlea aujourd'hui. »
Accordingly after tea Mrs. Rachel set out; she had not far to go; the big, rambling, orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde's Hollow.
Aussi, après le thé, Mme Rachel se mit en route ; elle n'avait pas loin à aller ; la grande maison aux allures de labyrinthe, nichée dans un verger, où habitaient les Cuthbert, se trouvait à peine à un quart de mille de Lynde's Hollow en remontant la route.
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
Certes, la longue allée la rendait bien plus éloignée en réalité.
Matthew Cuthbert's father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he founded his homestead.
Le père de Matthew Cuthbert, aussi timide et silencieux que son fils après lui, s'était éloigné le plus possible de ses semblables sans pour autant se retirer dans les bois lorsqu'il avait fondé son domaine.
Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated.
Green Gables avait été construite à l'extrémité la plus reculée de sa terre défrichée, et elle s'y trouvait encore de nos jours, à peine visible depuis la route principale le long de laquelle toutes les autres maisons d'Avonlea étaient si agréablement situées.
Mrs. Rachel Lynde did not call living in such a place _living_ at all.
Mme Rachel Lynde n'appelait pas du tout _vivre_ le fait d'habiter un tel endroit.
"It's just _staying_, that's what," she said as she stepped along the deep-rutted, grassy lane bordered with wild rose bushes.
« C'est tout juste _séjourner_, voilà ce que c'est », dit-elle en marchant le long de l'allée herbeuse aux profondes ornières, bordée de buissons d'églantines.
Vocabulary
- va
- Third person singular of aller: goes
- généralement
- Usually, in most cases, as a general rule
- ville
- A town or city where people live
- époque
- A period or era in time
- année
- A full calendar year
- rend
- Returns or pays, from rendre
- _jamais_
- Never, at no time whatsoever
- visite
- A visit paid to someone
- personne
- Nobody, or a person depending on context
- manqué
- Missed or lacked something needed
- graines
- Seeds of plants used for sowing
- navet
- A turnip, a root vegetable
- serait
- Conditional of être: would be
- habillé
- Dressed, wearing clothing, past participle
- aurait
- Conditional of avoir: would have
- pris
- Past participle of prendre: taken
- boghei
- A light horse-drawn carriage or buggy
- aller
- To go somewhere
- chercher
- To look for or fetch something
- conduisait
- Imperfect of conduire: was driving
- assez
- Enough or quite, expressing sufficient degree
- vite
- Quickly, at a fast speed
- médecin
- A doctor or physician who treats patients
- Pourtant
- However, yet, expressing contrast or contradiction
- quelque
- Some, a certain unspecified thing or amount
- chose
- A thing or object
- dû
- Past participle of devoir: had to, must have
- passer
- To happen or to pass by
- depuis
- Since or for a period of time
- hier
- Yesterday, the day before today
- soir
- Evening, the end part of the day
- mettre
- To put, place, or set something somewhere
- route
- A road or a journey underway
- vraiment
- Really, truly, genuinely
- perplexe
- Puzzled, confused, unable to understand something
- voilà
- There it is, that is the situation
- aurai
- Future of avoir: will have
- minute
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds
- tranquillité
- Calmness, peace, absence of disturbance
- esprit
- Mind, spirit, or wit
- ni
- Nor, used in negative constructions
- conscience
- Conscience or awareness of one's actions
- avant
- Before, prior to a time or event
- savoir
- To know a fact or information
- fait
- Makes or does, third person of faire
- sortir
- To go out or leave a place
- aujourd'hui
- Today, on this present day
- Aussi
- Therefore, also, consequently
- après
- After, following a time or event
- thé
- Tea, a hot beverage made from leaves
- Mme
- Abbreviation for Madame, Mrs or Ma'am
- mit
- Past historic of mettre: put on, set out
- loin
- Far away, at a great distance
- grande
- Large or tall, feminine form of grand
- maison
- A house or home building
- allures
- Appearances, looks, styles of a place
- labyrinthe
- A labyrinth or maze of confusing paths
- nichée
- Nestled or tucked away in a location
- verger
- An orchard of fruit trees
- habitaient
- Imperfect of habiter: used to live
- trouvait
- Imperfect of trouver: found, considered
- peine
- Hardly, barely, with difficulty
- quart
- A quarter, one fourth of something
- mille
- A mile, unit of distance measurement
- remontant
- Going back up, climbing upward again
- Certes
- Certainly, admittedly, it is true that
- longue
- Long in distance or duration, feminine form
- allée
- A lane or pathway leading to a house
- rendait
- Imperfect of rendre: made or rendered
- bien
- Well, good, very, expressing degree
- éloignée
- Far away, distant, remote, feminine past participle
- réalité
- Reality, what is actually true or existing
- père
- Father, male parent
- aussi
- Also, too, as well
- timide
- Shy, timid, lacking confidence socially
- silencieux
- Silent, quiet, not making noise
- fils
- Son, male child of a parent
- possible
- Possible, able to be done or achieved
- semblables
- Fellow human beings, one's peers or equals
- sans
- Without, lacking something
- autant
- As much, as many, to that extent
- retirer
- To withdraw or retreat to a place
- bois
- Woods or forest, also wood as material
- lorsqu'
- When, at the time that
- fondé
- Founded, established, past participle of fonder
- domaine
- An estate or domain of land
- été
- Past participle of être: been; also summer
- construite
- Built, constructed, feminine past participle
- extrémité
- The far end or extremity of something
- reculée
- Remote, far back, distant from main areas
- terre
- Land, earth, or ground
- défrichée
- Cleared of vegetation for farming or use
- y
- There, a pronoun referring to a place
- encore
- Still, yet, again
- jours
- Days, plural of jour
- visible
- Visible, able to be seen clearly
- principale
- Main or principal, most important, feminine form
- long
- Along, used in expression le long de
- laquelle
- Which, relative pronoun feminine singular form
- toutes
- All, every, feminine plural form of tout
- maisons
- Houses, plural of maison
- si
- So, such, expressing a high degree
- agréablement
- Pleasantly, in a pleasing or agreeable manner
- situées
- Situated, located, feminine plural past participle
- appelait
- Imperfect of appeler: called, named
- tout
- All, completely, entirely
- _vivre_
- To live, to be alive and experience life
- habiter
- To live in or inhabit a place
- tel
- Such, of that kind
- endroit
- A place or spot, a specific location
- juste
- Just, only, merely, or fair
- _séjourner_
- To stay temporarily, to sojourn somewhere
- dit-
- Said, past historic of dire in inversion
- marchant
- Walking, present participle of marcher
- herbeuse
- Grassy, covered with grass, feminine adjective
- profondes
- Deep, profound, feminine plural adjective
- ornières
- Ruts or wheel tracks worn into a road
- bordée
- Bordered or lined by something on the sides
- buissons
- Bushes or shrubs growing close to the ground
- églantines
- Wild roses or sweetbriar flowers
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