原文
"Well, how do you like them?" said Marilla.
Anne was standing in the gable room, looking solemnly at three new dresses spread out on the bed. One was of snuffy colored gingham which Marilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer because it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-white checkered sateen which she had picked up at a bargain counter in the winter; and one was a stiff print of an ugly blue shade which she had purchased that week at a Carmody store.
She had made them up herself, and they were all made alike--plain skirts fulled tightly to plain waists, with sleeves as plain as waist and skirt and tight as sleeves could be.
語彙など
- gable:破風,切妻
- solemnly:まじめに
- spread out:広げる
- snuffy:薄汚い,嫌な
- gingham:ギンガム(チェックまたはストライプの平織り洋服地）
- peddler:行商人
- preceding:〜に先行する
- serviceable:実用的な,丈夫で長持ちする
- sateen:サティーン,綿繻子
- pick up:買う
- bargain counter:特売場,バーゲン売場
- stiff:ひどい
- print:プリント柄,模様
- shade:影
- plain:飾り気のない
- tightly:きっちりと