原文
"It's worth something to have that," admitted Marilla.
Miss Stacy came back to Avonlea school and found all her pupils eager for work once more. Especially did the Queen's class gird up their loins for the fray, for at the end of the coming year, dimly shadowing their pathway already, loomed up that fateful thing known as "the Entrance," at the thought of which one and all felt their hearts sink into their very shoes. Suppose they did not pass! That thought was doomed to haunt Anne through the waking hours of that winter, Sunday afternoons inclusive, to the almost entire exclusion of moral and theological problems. When Anne had bad dreams she found herself staring miserably at pass lists of the Entrance exams, where Gilbert Blythe's name was blazoned at the top and in which hers did not appear at all.
語彙など
- gird up one's loins:気持ちを引き締める
- fray:争い
- dimly:ぼんやりと
- shadow:影で覆う
- pathway:経路
- loom up:不意に立ちはだかる
- fateful:運命を決する
- one and all:誰も彼も
- heart sinks in one's boots:気落ちする
- doom:〜を(悪い方向へ)運命づける
- haunt:悩ませる
- inclusive:(〜を)含めた(後置で使われる)
- exclusion:除外
- moral:道徳的な
- theological:神学の
- staring:見つめる
- miserably:惨めに
- blazon:公表する