原文
The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and
wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial
old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their
lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school
children. The schoolhouse was set back from the road and behind it was
a dusky fir wood and a brook where all the children put their bottles of
milk in the morning to keep cool and sweet until dinner hour.
Marilla had seen Anne start off to school on the first day of September with many secret misgivings. Anne was such an odd girl. How would she get on with the other children? And how on earth would she ever manage to hold her tongue during school hours?
Things went better than Marilla feared, however. Anne came home that evening in high spirits.
語彙など
- whitewashed wall:白塗りの壁,しっくいを塗った壁
- eaves:軒,ひさし
- furnish:備え付ける
- substantial:しっかりした,頑丈な
- carve:刻む
- lid:ふた
- hieroglyphics:判読しにくい[訳の分からない]文字
- schoolhouse:校舎
- dusky:薄暗い
- brook:小川
- start off:旅立つ
- misgiving:不安
- get on with:〜と仲良くやっていく
- on earth:一体(全体)
- hold one's tongue:言いたいことを我慢する
- in high spirits:上機嫌で