原文
"Yes, I believe she could," said Marilla dryly. "She does plenty of
unofficial preaching as it is. Nobody has much of a chance to go wrong
in Avonlea with Rachel to oversee them."
"Marilla," said Anne in a burst of confidence, "I want to tell you something and ask you what you think about it. It has worried me terribly--on Sunday afternoons, that is, when I think specially about such matters. I do really want to be good; and when I'm with you or Mrs. Allan or Miss Stacy I want it more than ever and I want to do just what would please you and what you would approve of. But mostly when I'm with Mrs. Lynde I feel desperately wicked and as if I wanted to go and do the very thing she tells me I oughtn't to do. I feel irresistibly tempted to do it. Now, what do you think is the reason I feel like that? Do you think it's because I'm really bad and unregenerate?"
語彙など
- dryly:素っ気なく,皮肉っぽく
- plenty of:たくさんの〜
- unofficial:私的な
- preach:説教する
- as it is:今のままでも,実のところ
- much of:大した〜,ひどい〜
- go wrong:悪に走る,堕落する
- oversee:監督する
- confidence:うち明け話,秘密
- more than ever:ますます,これまでになく
- approve of:〜に賛成する
- desperately:ひどく
- wicked:悪い,
- irresistibly:抗し難く
- tempt:誘惑する
- unregenerate:生まれ変わらない,罪深い