原文
"We ARE rich," said Anne staunchly. "Why, we have sixteen years to our
credit, and we're happy as queens, and we've all got imaginations, more
or less. Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of
things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had
millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. You wouldn't change into any
of those women if you could. Would you want to be that white-lace girl
and wear a sour look all your life, as if you'd been born turning up
your nose at the world? Or the pink lady, kind and nice as she is, so
stout and short that you'd really no figure at all? Or even Mrs. Evans,
with that sad, sad look in her eyes? She must have been dreadfully
unhappy sometime to have such a look. You KNOW you wouldn't, Jane
Andrews!"
語彙など
- staunchly:断固として
- to one's credit:の名誉となる､評価できる
- imagination:想像力
- more or less:多かれ少なかれ
- change into:〜に変わる
- sour:不機嫌な
- turn up one's nose at:軽蔑する
- as:〜だけれども
- stout:太った
- figure:想像する,思う
- dreadfully:すごく
- sometime:いつか,あるとき