原文
With this encouragement Anne bearded the lion in its den--that is to
say, walked resolutely up to the sitting-room door and knocked faintly.
A sharp "Come in" followed.
Miss Josephine Barry, thin, prim, and rigid, was knitting fiercely by the fire, her wrath quite unappeased and her eyes snapping through her gold-rimmed glasses. She wheeled around in her chair, expecting to see Diana, and beheld a white-faced girl whose great eyes were brimmed up with a mixture of desperate courage and shrinking terror.
語彙など
- encouragement:励まし
- beard the lion in his den:虎穴に入る,強敵に大胆に立ち向かう
- that is to say:すなわち
- resolutely:堅く決心して
- faintly:かすかに
- prim:上品ぶった,とりすました
- rigid:厳格な,かたくなな
- knit:編む
- fiercely:猛烈に
- wrath:激怒
- unappeased:鎮められていない
- snap:ピシャリと言う,投げる
- gold-rimmed glasses:金縁メガネ
- wheel around:振り返る
- behold:注視する
- brim:いっぱいに入れる
- desperate courage:死に物狂いの勇気
- shrink:尻込みする,ひるむ