原文
"Diana is a very pretty little girl. She has black eyes and hair and
rosy cheeks. And she is good and smart, which is better than being
pretty."
Marilla was as fond of morals as the Duchess in Wonderland, and was firmly convinced that one should be tacked on to every remark made to a child who was being brought up.
But Anne waved the moral inconsequently aside and seized only on the delightful possibilities before it.
語彙など
- smart:賢い
- be fond of:〜が好き
- moral:教訓,道徳
- Duchess in Wonderland:不思議の国の公爵夫人(不思議の国のアリス)
- firmly:きっぱりと,断固として
- convinced:確信して
- tack on:追加する,付け加える
- remark:意見
- bring up:育てる
- wave aside:軽く一蹴する,無視する
- inconsequently:取るに足らないように,見当違いとして
- seize on:〜に飛びつく
- delightful:楽しい,愉快な
- possibility:可能性,見込み