原文
"I never in all my life say or heard anything to equal her," muttered
Marilla, beating a retreat down to the cellar after potatoes. "She
is kind of interesting as Matthew says. I can feel already that I'm
wondering what on earth she'll say next. She'll be casting a spell over
me, too. She's cast it over Matthew. That look he gave me when he went
out said everything he said or hinted last night over again. I wish he
was like other men and would talk things out. A body could answer back
then and argue him into reason. But what's to be done with a man who
just LOOKS?"
Anne had relapsed into reverie, with her chin in her hands and her eyes on the sky, when Marilla returned from her cellar pilgrimage. There Marilla left her until the early dinner was on the table.
語彙など
- equal:〜に匹敵する
- mutter:つぶやく
- beat a retreat:急いで逃げる,逃げ出す
- cellar:地下貯蔵室
- after:〜を求めて
- potato:ジャガイモ
- kind of:ちょっと
- wonder:あれこれ思いを巡らす,知りたがる
- cast a spell:魔法をかける
- talk out:話し合いで解決する
- body:人物,人
- argue into:(人)に〜するように説得する
- reason:道理,分別
- relapse into:〜に戻る
- reverie:空想,夢想
- chin:あご
- pilgrimage:巡礼,長旅