原文
"Well, I hope it will turn out all right," said Mrs. Rachel in a tone
that plainly indicated her painful doubts. "Only don't say I didn't
warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well--I
heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did
that and the whole family died in fearful agonies. Only, it was a girl
in that instance."
"Well, we're not getting a girl," said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy. "I'd never dream of taking a girl to bring up. I wonder at Mrs. Alexander Spencer for doing it. But there, SHE wouldn't shrink from adopting a whole orphan asylum if she took it into her head."
語彙など
- turn out all right:万事うまくいく
- tone:調子
- plainly:明らかに
- painful:うんざりする
- doubt:疑い
- burn down:全焼させる
- strychnine:ストリキニーネ(中枢神経興奮剤:猛毒)
- well:井戸
- orphan asylum:孤児院
- agony:苦痛
- instance:場合,例
- poison:毒を盛る
- feminine:女の
- accomplishment:得意なこと
- dread:を恐れる
- bring up:養育する
- there:(残念ながら）どうしようもない
- shrink from:〜に尻込みする
- adopt:〜を養子にする
- take it into one's head:〜と思い込む
But there:そこはそれ、彼女のことだから、というぐらいの意味でしょうか。