原文
"No, I don't want any of your imaginings. Just you stick to bald facts.
Begin at the beginning. Where were you born and how old are you?"
"I was eleven last March," said Anne, resigning herself to bald facts with a little sigh. " in Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia. My father's name was Walter Shirley, and he was a teacher in the Bolingbroke High School. My mother's name was Bertha Shirley. Aren't Walter and Bertha lovely names? I'm so glad my parents had nice names. It would be a real disgrace to have a father named--well, say Jedediah, wouldn't it?"
"I guess it doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself," said Marilla, feeling herself called upon to inculcate a good and useful moral.
語彙など
- stick to:〜に専念する
- bald fact:ありのままの事実
- resign oneself to:観念して〜する
- with a sigh:溜息をついて
- Bolingbroke:ボーリングブローク
- Nova Scotia:カナダ・ノバスコシア州
- disgrace:不名誉
- matter:重要である
- as long as:〜する限り
- behave oneself:行いを慎む,きちんと振る舞う
- call upon:求める,〜を頼む
- inculcate:熱心に説き聞きかせる
- moral:道徳