（５６）雑草を抜く

My wife prefers weeding at flower beds to clearing rooms.　I gathered the phrases about weeding from the book "The Secret Garden" written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Now I enjoyed reading it. 部屋の片付けより、家の花壇の草むしりが好きな妻。除草に関する言葉を、今楽しみに読んでいる「秘密の花園」から集めました。作者はフランセス・ホジソン・バーネットです。


1. pull up weeds 草をむしる
2. root up a weed　雑草を根こそぎ抜く
3. weed 雑草を抜く

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文例１
Mary was an odd, determined little person, and , now she had something interesting to be determined about, she was very much absorbed indeed. She worked and dug and pulled up weeds steadily, only becoming more pleased with her work every hour instead of tiring of it. p111　メアリーは、ちょっとかわった、がんこな子どもだったので、興味をひかれて、これをやろうと決めたいまでは、すっかり夢中になってしまっていた。根気良く、土をほじっくって雑草を抜き、どんなに長くはたらいても、あきるどころか、自分のはたらきぶりにますますよろこびを感じていた。
（フォア文庫　秘密の花園、　渡辺南都子・訳）

文例２
'Do you like roses?' she said.
Ben Weatherstaff rooted up a weed and threw it aside before he answered. p116　「おじいさんはバラが好きなの？」こたえるまえに、ベン・ウェザースタッフは雑草を抜いて、わきになげすてた。
（フォア文庫　秘密の花園、　渡辺南都子・訳）

文例３
The moisture which was good for the flowers was also good for the weeds, which thrust up tiny blades of grass and points of leaves which must be pulled up before their roots took too firm hold. Colin was as good at weeding as anyone in these days, ---   p214
単語の意味
blades of grass 草の葉
points of leaves 葉のとんがった芽

―The Secret Garden,  Frances Hodgson Burnett, KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL