原文
"Go by the road and waste half an hour! I'd like to catch you!"
"I can't go through the Haunted Wood, Marilla," cried Anne desperately.
Marilla stared.
"The Haunted Wood! Are you crazy? What under the canopy is the Haunted Wood?"
"The spruce wood over the brook," said Anne in a whisper.
"Fiddlesticks! There is no such thing as a haunted wood anywhere. Who has been telling you such stuff?"
語彙など
- waste:無駄に消費する
- go through:通り抜ける
- haunted:幽霊のよく出る,とりつかれた
- desperately:ひどく,必死に
- crazy:気が狂った
- under the canopy:一体全体
- spruce:トウヒ,マツ科トウヒ属の常緑高木
- brook:小川
- in a whisper:小声で
- fiddlestick:くだらない,ばからしい
- stuff:がらくた,物事