原文
"You've only two more months before the Entrance," said Marilla. "Do you
think you'll be able to get through?"
Anne shivered.
"I don't know. Sometimes I think I'll be all right--and then I get horribly afraid. We've studied hard and Miss Stacy has drilled us thoroughly, but we mayn't get through for all that. We've each got a stumbling block. Mine is geometry of course, and Jane's is Latin, and Ruby and Charlie's is algebra, and Josie's is arithmetic. Moody Spurgeon says he feels it in his bones that he is going to fail in English history. Miss Stacy is going to give us examinations in June just as hard as we'll have at the Entrance and mark us just as strictly, so we'll have some idea. I wish it was all over, Marilla. It haunts me. Sometimes I wake up in the night and wonder what I'll do if I don't pass."
語彙など
- entrance:入学
- get through:合格する
- shiver:震える
- horribly:恐ろしく,ひどく
- drill:〜を訓練する
- thoroughly:徹底的に
- get through:合格する
- for all:〜にもかかわらず
- stumbling block:障害,悩みの種
- geometry:幾何学
- Latin:ラテン語
- algebra:代数学
- arithmetic:計算
- feel ~ in one's bones:〜を直感する,勘で分かる
- examination:試験
- strictly:厳しく
- haunt:悩ませる