原文
Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it. She looked like a woman of narrow experience and rigid conscience, which she was; but there was a saving something about her mouth which, if it had been ever so slightly developed, might have been considered indicative of a sense of humor.
"We're all pretty well," said Mrs. Rachel. "I was kind of afraid YOU weren't, though, when I saw Matthew starting off today. I thought maybe he was going to the doctor's."
Marilla's lips twitched understandingly. She had expected Mrs. Rachel up; she had known that the sight of Matthew jaunting off so unaccountably would be too much for her neighbor's curiosity.
語彙など
- angle:角
- curve:曲線
- streak:筋
- twist:ねじる,編む
- knot:結び
- wire:針金で作った
- stick:〜に突き刺す
- rigid:融通の利かない
- conscience:善悪の観念
- saving:救いの,欠点を補う
- ever so:非常に
- slightly:ほっそりと
- develop:成長する
- indicative:暗示する
- kind of:ちょっと
- twitch:ピクピク動く
- understandingly:分かってるわというふうに
- up:やってくる
- jaunt off:出かける
- unaccountably:不可解なことに