原文
"I'm not even going to look at a schoolbook in vacation," she told
Marilla. "I've studied as hard all the term as I possibly could and I've
pored over that geometry until I know every proposition in the first
book off by heart, even when the letters ARE changed. I just feel tired
of everything sensible and I'm going to let my imagination run riot for
the summer. Oh, you needn't be alarmed, Marilla. I'll only let it run
riot within reasonable limits. But I want to have a real good jolly time
this summer, for maybe it's the last summer I'll be a little girl. Mrs.
Lynde says that if I keep stretching out next year as I've done this
I'll have to put on longer skirts. She says I'm all running to legs and
eyes. And when I put on longer skirts I shall feel that I have to live
up to them and be very dignified. It won't even do to believe in fairies
then, I'm afraid; so I'm going to believe in them with all my whole
heart this summer. I think we're going to have a very gay vacation. Ruby
Gillis is going to have a birthday party soon and there's the Sunday
school picnic and the missionary concert next month. And Mr. Barry says
that some evening he'll take Diana and me over to the White Sands Hotel
and have dinner there. They have dinner there in the evening, you know.
Jane Andrews was over once last summer and she says it was a dazzling
sight to see the electric lights and the flowers and all the lady guests
in such beautiful dresses. Jane says it was her first glimpse into high
life and she'll never forget it to her dying day."
語彙など
- vacation:休暇
- term:学期
- pore over:熟読する
- geometry:幾何学
- proposition:命題,定理
- learn off by heart:丸暗記する
- tire of:〜に飽きる
- sensible:実用本位の
- run riot:放蕩する
- within reasonable limits:妥当な制限内で
- jolly:陽気な,すてきな
- stretch:能力一杯に働かせる
- put on:身につける
- run to legs and eyes:run to arms(急いで武器を取る)やrun to extremes(極端に走る)から類推すると、色んなことに興味がいくぐらいでしょうか
- live up to:〜に応じて生活する
- dignified:品位のある
- fairy:妖精
- with all one's heart:心から喜んで
- gay:陽気な
- missionary:宣教師
- dazzling sight:目がくらむような光景
- electric:電気の
- glimpse:垣間見ること