質問: わからない個所を教えてください。 jamie is nowhere to be seen. after a few minutes of walking back and forth, i settle down to wait, finding a comfortable place to sit and raking together a pile of pebbles to throw at the larger rocks. it is warm and i feel lazy and happy.(前回の終わりの部分です) lena and i go for a walk up the valley. sometimes we do this, though not often; more usually our walks take us down, to the shops and the central square and the piglets and the drinking-fountain. i like the drinking-fountain a lot. the bronze lion’s head, with its snarlingly open mouth and constant stream of bright water, entrances me. even when we are sitting at toni’s waiting for ice-creams and cokes, i keep my eye on it. this afternoon, though, we go further along the road, and then, once we are quite far from the town, down a side-track that lena says once led to one of the outlying farms. lena is telling me stories, too – some of which i’ve heard before and know almost by heart – and keeping her eyes open for wild herbs growing by the track: sage, sorrel and thyme, to pick and use in the kitchen. a bunch of wild myrtle hung at the window will keep the flies away. i go happily along with her, sometimes running ahead and waiting for her to catch me up, sometimes carrying her basket for her. ****************************************** 主人公のalexはartistで、展示会に備えるために、幼い頃過ごしたイタリアに戻ってきています。この英文は現在からまた過去のシーンに戻っているように思われます。 sometimes we do this, though not often; more usually our walks take us down, to the shops and the central square and the piglets and the drinking-fountain.の中に、the pigletsとあるのですが、子豚、という意味ですか? the central squareは中央広場、the drinking-fountainは噴水式水飲み器だと思うのですが、そこにthe pigletsが出てくるのがわかりません。 this afternoon, though, we go further along the road, and then, once we are quite far from the town, down a side-track that lena says once led to one of the outlying farms. の中に出てくるonceは、once we are quite far from the town,は”一度”、lena says once led to one of the outlying farms.は”かつて”の意味ですか? down a side-track that lena says once led to one of the outlying farms.についてですが、ledの主語はa side-trackですか?lenaが言うかつて遠くの農場の一つに導いた側線を下り?(a side-trackとは鉄道に関する線のことですか?) 教えてください。お願いします。
回答: とりあえず piglet についてだけ。下記 wikipedia を参照すると、piglet はイタリア語で porcellino、フロレンスにはブロンズのイノシシ (boar) の像の噴水があり、porcellino と呼ばれているようなので、これのことを指しているのではないかと思われます。