原文
"I think I'm going to like school here," she announced. "I don't think
much of the master, through. He's all the time curling his mustache
and making eyes at Prissy Andrews. Prissy is grown up, you know. She's
sixteen and she's studying for the entrance examination into Queen's
Academy at Charlottetown next year. Tillie Boulter says the master is
DEAD GONE on her. She's got a beautiful complexion and curly brown hair
and she does it up so elegantly. She sits in the long seat at the back
and he sits there, too, most of the time--to explain her lessons, he
says. But Ruby Gillis says she saw him writing something on her slate
and when Prissy read it she blushed as red as a beet and giggled; and
Ruby Gillis says she doesn't believe it had anything to do with the
lesson."
"Anne Shirley, don't let me hear you talking about your teacher in that way again," said Marilla sharply. "You don't go to school to criticize the master. I guess he can teach YOU something, and it's your business to learn. And I want you to understand right off that you are not to come home telling tales about him. That is something I won't encourage. I hope you were a good girl."
語彙など
- through:thoughのミスでしょう
- all the time:いつも
- curl:ひねる
- mustache:口ひげ
- make eyes at:(人)に色目を使う
- entrance examination:入学試験
- be dead gone on:夢中になる
- complexion:顔色,肌の色
- elegantly:上品に,優雅に
- long seat:長いす
- slate:石板
- beet:砂糖大根
- as red as a beet:真っ赤な
- giggle:クスクス笑う
- have something to do with:〜と関係がある
- in that way:あのように,あんなふうに
- sharply:鋭く,はっきりと
- criticize:〜のあらを探す,非難する
- right off:すぐに