原文
"Oh, I AM grateful," protested Anne. "But I'd be ever so much
gratefuller if--if you'd made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
Puffed sleeves are so fashionable now. It would give me such a thrill,
Marilla, just to wear a dress with puffed sleeves."
"Well, you'll have to do without your thrill. I hadn't any material to waste on puffed sleeves. I think they are ridiculous-looking things anyhow. I prefer the plain, sensible ones."
"But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself," persisted Anne mournfully.
語彙など
- protest:〜に抗議する
- grateful:感謝する
- puffed:膨らんだ
- fashionable:流行の
- thrill:身震い,ワクワクする感じ
- material:服地
- ridiculous:おかしな,ばかばかしい
- plain:飾り気のない
- sensible:実用本位の
- all by oneself:自分だけで
- persist:言い張る
- mournfully:悲しげに