Audiobook Dictation: “Where was his boyhood now…”

Where was his boyhood now?

彼の少年時代は今どこにあるのだろう？

He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.

彼は誰にも顧みられず、幸福で、生の野生の心臓のすぐそばにいた。

Her thighs, fuller and soft-hued as ivory, were bared almost to the hips, where the white fringes of her drawers were like feathering of soft white down.

象牙のように柔らかな色合いの、よりふくよかな太腿は、腰近くまであらわになっていて、そこでは下穿きの白い縁飾りが柔らかな白い綿毛の羽毛のようだった。

Her slate-blue skirts were kilted boldly about her waist and dovetailed behind her.

スレートブルーのスカートは大胆に腰までたくし上げられ、後ろで燕の尾のように合わされていた。

Her bosom was as a bird's, soft and slight, slight and soft as the breast of some dark-plumaged dove.

その胸は鳥の胸のように、柔らかくほっそりとして、黒っぽい羽の鳩の胸のように、ほっそりと柔らかだった。

But her long fair hair was girlish: and girlish, and touched with the wonder of mortal beauty, her face.

だが長い金髪は少女のものだった。そして、その顔もまた少女のもので、死すべき者の美の驚異に触れていた。