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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar - except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat contry that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks runnung through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull gray as everything else.
When Aunt Em came there to live, she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.
Language
lumber
timber sawed or spilt into planks, boards, etc.
제재, 판재
cellar
an underground room or story
지하 저장실
prairie
an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississipi vally, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west
대초원
blister
to break out in or as if in swelling or bubbles
~에 물집이 생기게 하다
sparkle
to shine or glisten with little gleams of light
불꽃을 튀기다. 번쩍이다
gaunt
extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated
몹시 여윈, 수척한
orphan
a child who has lost both parents through death
고아
startle
to start involuntarily, as from a shock of surprise or alarm
~을 깜짝 놀라게 하다, 펄쩍 뛰에 하다
merry
full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit
즐거운
EBS Power English Aug, 2008 중에서
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