原文
"But she DID say it, Marilla. And indeed I'm not vain about it. How can
I be, when I'm such a dunce at geometry? Although I'm really beginning
to see through it a little, too. Miss Stacy makes it so clear. Still,
I'll never be good at it and I assure you it is a humbling reflection.
But I love writing compositions. Mostly Miss Stacy lets us choose
our own subjects; but next week we are to write a composition on some
remarkable person. It's hard to choose among so many remarkable people
who have lived. Mustn't it be splendid to be remarkable and have
compositions written about you after you're dead? Oh, I would dearly
love to be remarkable. I think when I grow up I'll be a trained nurse
and go with the Red Crosses to the field of battle as a messenger of
mercy. That is, if I don't go out as a foreign missionary. That would
be very romantic, but one would have to be very good to be a missionary,
and that would be a stumbling block. We have physical culture exercises
every day, too. They make you graceful and promote digestion."
語彙など
- vain:自慢にして
- dunce:できの悪い生徒
- geometry:幾何学
- humbling:屈辱的な
- reflection:反省v
- composition:作文
- subject:主題
- remarkable:卓越した
- trained nurse:正看護師
- mercy:慈悲
- foreign missionary:外国へ派遣された宣教師
- stumbling block:悩みの種
- physical culture:保健体育
- graceful:上品な
- digestion:消化