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.
«Di solito non va in città in questo periodo dell'anno e non fa mai visita a nessuno; se avesse finito i semi di rapa non si sarebbe messo in ghingheri e non avrebbe preso il calesse per andarne a comprare altri; non guidava abbastanza in fretta da andare a chiamare un dottore.
Yet something must have happened since last night to start him off.
Eppure qualcosa deve essere successo dalla notte scorsa per farlo partire.
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."
Sono del tutto sconcertata, ecco cosa sono, e non avrò un minuto di pace nella mente o nella coscienza finché non saprò cosa ha spinto Matthew Cuthbert ad allontanarsi da Avonlea oggi.»
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.
Così, dopo il tè, la signora Rachel si mise in cammino; non aveva molta strada da fare; la grande casa disordinata, nascosta tra i frutteti, dove vivevano i Cuthbert, si trovava a meno di un quarto di miglio su per la strada da Lynde's Hollow.
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
A dire il vero, il lungo vialetto la rendeva molto più lontana.
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.
Il padre di Matthew Cuthbert, timido e silenzioso quanto il figlio che venne dopo di lui, si era allontanato il più possibile dai suoi simili senza però ritirarsi davvero nel bosco, quando aveva fondato la sua fattoria.
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 era stata costruita al margine più lontano del suo terreno disboscato e lì si trovava ancora oggi, appena visibile dalla strada principale lungo la quale tutte le altre case di Avonlea erano così amichevolmente situate.
Mrs. Rachel Lynde did not call living in such a place _living_ at all.
La signora Rachel Lynde non avrebbe mai chiamato vivere in un posto del genere vero e proprio vivere.
"It's just _staying_, that's what," she said as she stepped along the deep-rutted, grassy lane bordered with wild rose bushes.
«È solo sopravvivere, ecco cosa è,» disse mentre camminava lungo il vialetto profondamente solcato, erboso, bordato di cespugli di rose selvatiche.
Vocabulary
- Di
- Of, from (preposition)
- solito
- Usually, customarily, as usual
- non
- Not (negation particle)
- va
- Goes, is going (present tense of andare)
- in
- In, into (preposition)
- città
- City, town
- questo
- This, this one (demonstrative pronoun)
- periodo
- Period, season, time of year
- anno
- Year
- fa
- Makes, does; ago (temporal marker)
- mai
- Never, ever (negation adverb)
- visita
- Visit, inspection (noun)
- nessuno
- Nobody, no one, none (pronoun)
- se
- If, whether (conditional conjunction)
- avesse
- Had (past subjunctive of avere)
- finito
- Finished, ended (past participle)
- semi
- Seeds (plural noun)
- si
- Himself, herself, oneself (reflexive pronoun)
- sarebbe
- Would be (conditional of essere)
- messo
- Put, placed (past participle of mettere)
- avrebbe
- Would have (conditional of avere)
- preso
- Taken, caught (past participle of prendere)
- il
- The (masculine singular article)
- per
- For, in order to (preposition)
- andarne
- To go away from there (infinitive)
- comprare
- To buy, to purchase (infinitive)
- altri
- Others, other ones (plural pronoun)
- guidava
- Drove, was driving (imperfect of guidare)
- abbastanza
- Enough, quite, rather (adverb)
- fretta
- Hurry, haste (noun)
- da
- From, by, since (preposition)
- andare
- To go (infinitive verb)
- chiamare
- To call, to summon (infinitive)
- un
- A, an (masculine singular article)
- dottore
- Doctor, physician (noun)
- Eppure
- Yet, however, and yet (conjunction)
- qualcosa
- Something, anything (pronoun)
- deve
- Must, has to (present of dovere)
- essere
- To be (infinitive verb)
- successo
- Happened, occurred (past participle)
- notte
- Night (noun)
- scorsa
- Last, past (adjective feminine)
- farlo
- To make him/it (infinitive with pronoun)
- partire
- To depart, to leave (infinitive)
- Sono
- I am (present of essere)
- tutto
- All, whole, completely (adjective/adverb)
- ecco
- Here is, there is (interjection)
- cosa
- Thing, what (noun/pronoun)
- avrò
- I will have (future of avere)
- minuto
- Minute (noun)
- pace
- Peace (noun)
- mente
- Mind (noun)
- coscienza
- Conscience, consciousness (noun)
- finché
- Until, as long as (conjunction)
- saprò
- I will know (future of sapere)
- ha
- Has, have (present of avere)
- spinto
- Pushed, driven (past participle of spingere)
- ad
- To, at (preposition before vowel)
- allontanarsi
- To move away, to go away (infinitive)
- oggi
- Today (adverb)
- Così
- So, thus, therefore (adverb)
- dopo
- After, afterward (preposition/adverb)
- tè
- Tea (noun)
- la
- The (feminine singular article)
- signora
- Madam, Mrs., lady (noun)
- mise
- Put, placed (past tense of mettere)
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