原文
Mr. Phillips was back in the corner explaining a problem in algebra to
Prissy Andrews and the rest of the scholars were doing pretty much as
they pleased eating green apples, whispering, drawing pictures on their
slates, and driving crickets harnessed to strings, up and down aisle.
Gilbert Blythe was trying to make Anne Shirley look at him and failing
utterly, because Anne was at that moment totally oblivious not only
to the very existence of Gilbert Blythe, but of every other scholar in
Avonlea school itself. With her chin propped on her hands and her eyes
fixed on the blue glimpse of the Lake of Shining Waters that the west
window afforded, she was far away in a gorgeous dreamland hearing and
seeing nothing save her own wonderful visions.
Gilbert Blythe wasn't used to putting himself out to make a girl look at him and meeting with failure. She SHOULD look at him, that red-haired Shirley girl with the little pointed chin and the big eyes that weren't like the eyes of any other girl in Avonlea school.
語彙など
- algebra:代数
- scholar:生徒
- whisper:内緒話をする
- slate:石板
- cricket:コオロギ
- harness:付ける
- string:ひも
- aisle:通路
- utterly:完全に
- oblivious:気づかない
- prop:もたせかける
- fix on:〜にくぎ付けになる
- glimpse:一瞥,垣間見ること
- afford:提供する,与える
- dreamland:夢の国
- save:〜を除いて,〜のほかは
- be used to doing:〜することに慣れている
- meet with:〜を経験する
- pointed chin:とがった顎