原文
Marilla looked at Anne and softened at sight of the child's pale face
with its look of mute misery--the misery of a helpless little creature
who finds itself once more caught in the trap from which it had escaped.
Marilla felt an uncomfortable conviction that, if she denied the appeal
of that look, it would haunt her to her dying day. More-over, she did
not fancy Mrs. Blewett. To hand a sensitive, "highstrung" child over to
such a woman! No, she could not take the responsibility of doing that!
語彙など
- soften:心が優しくなる
- at sight of:〜を見て
- pale:青ざめた
- look:様子
- mute:無言の
- misery:悲惨,不幸
- creature:生き物
- trap:わな
- conviction:信念,確信
- deny:否定する
- appeal:訴え,嘆願
- haunt:〜に取り付かれる,悩ませる
- fancy:好む,気に入る
- hand over:引き渡す
- sensitive:感じやすい,感性豊かな
- highstrung:ひどく緊張した、ひどく神経質な
- take the responsibility:責任を引き受ける