原文
"What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good
just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born
yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can
never have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way
to go to school by, isn't it?"
"It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one's best chum would have forever and ever branded as "awful mean" the girl who did it. And yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you.
語彙など
- draw a long breath:深く息を吸う
- dusty:ほこりっぽい
- practically:実用的に
- peep into:〜をちょっとのぞき込む
- mentally:心の中で
- toothsome:(食物が)うまい,おいしい
- raspberry tart:ラズベリータルト
- repose:横になる
- bite:ひとかじり
- pool:出し合う
- share:分かち合う
- chum:仲良し
- forever and ever:永遠に
- brand as:〜というレッテルを貼る
- awful:ひどい
- mean:けちな
- and yet:それなのに
- tantalize:からかう