原文
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne
the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as
I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply
another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred
to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood
lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch
of a girl who knew and cared nothing bout God's love, since she had
never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.
語彙など
- embarrassed:《形》恥ずかしい
- than ever before:かつてないほど
- classic:古典
- glimmering:チラチラ光る
- fitness:適応度
- prayer:祈り
- sacred:神聖な
- white-robed:白衣をまとった
- lisp:舌足らずに話す
- motherly:やさしい,母の
- unsuited:不適当な
- freckled:そばかすのある
- witch:魔女
- translate:理解できる言葉で言い換える
- medium:媒介物