原文
"Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always
going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh
when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts
one's feelings. After tea Diana and I made taffy. The taffy wasn't very
good, I suppose because neither Diana nor I had ever made any before.
Diana left me to stir it while she buttered the plates and I forgot and
let it burn; and then when we set it out on the platform to cool the cat
walked over one plate and that had to be thrown away. But the making of
it was splendid fun. Then when I came home Mrs. Barry asked me to come
over as often as I could and Diana stood at the window and threw kisses
to me all the way down to Lover's Lane. I assure you, Marilla, that I
feel like praying tonight and I'm going to think out a special brand-new
prayer in honor of the occasion."
語彙など
- decidedly:きっぱりと
- big word:難解な言葉,大げさな言葉
- taffy:タフィー,牛乳を使って作った柔らかめのお菓子
- stir:かき混ぜる
- butter:バターを塗る
- platform:台
- throw away:投げ捨てる
- splendid:素晴らしい
- pray:祈る
- brand-new:真新しい
- prayer:祈り
- in honor of:〜に敬意を表して,〜を祝って