原文
"In four more years we'll be able to put our hair up," said Diana.
"Alice Bell is only sixteen and she is wearing hers up, but I think
that's ridiculous. I shall wait until I'm seventeen."
"If I had Alice Bell's crooked nose," said Anne decidedly, "I wouldn't--but there! I won't say what I was going to because it was extremely uncharitable. Besides, I was comparing it with my own nose and that's vanity. I'm afraid I think too much about my nose ever since I heard that compliment about it long ago. It really is a great comfort to me. Oh, Diana, look, there's a rabbit. That's something to remember for our woods composition. I really think the woods are just as lovely in winter as in summer. They're so white and still, as if they were asleep and dreaming pretty dreams."
語彙など
- ridiculous:ばかげた
- crooked nose:斜鼻
- decidedly:きっぱりと
- uncharitable:意地悪な,手厳しい
- besides:おまけに
- compare A with B:A を B と比較する
- vanity:うぬぼれ
- compliment:褒め言葉,お世辞
- composition:作文
- still:静かな,しんとした