原文
"Promote fiddlesticks!" said Marilla, who honestly thought it was all
nonsense.
But all the field afternoons and recitation Fridays and physical culture contortions paled before a project which Miss Stacy brought forward in November. This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas Night, for the laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag. The pupils one and all taking graciously to this plan, the preparations for a program were begun at once. And of all the excited performers-elect none was so excited as Anne Shirley, who threw herself into the undertaking heart and soul, hampered as she was by Marilla's disapproval. Marilla thought it all rank foolishness.
語彙など
- fiddlestick:くだらない,ばからしい
- nonsense:ナンセンス,ばかげたこと
- recitation:朗読会
- physical culture:保健体育
- contortion:こじつけ
- pale:見劣りする
- bring forward:提案する,持ち出す
- scholar:生徒
- get up:〜の準備をする
- laudable:称賛に値する
- one and all:誰も彼も
- graciously:快く
- elect:選ばれたもの
- undertaking:取り組み
- hamper:阻害する
- disapproval:不同意
- rank:全くひどい
- foolishness:愚かさ