原文
Anne and the rest of the Avonlea scholars reached town just in time to
hurry off to the Academy. That first day passed pleasantly enough in a
whirl of excitement, meeting all the new students, learning to know the
professors by sight and being assorted and organized into classes. Anne
intended taking up the Second Year work being advised to do so by Miss
Stacy; Gilbert Blythe elected to do the same. This meant getting a
First Class teacher's license in one year instead of two, if they were
successful; but it also meant much more and harder work. Jane, Ruby,
Josie, Charlie, and Moody Spurgeon, not being troubled with the
stirrings of ambition, were content to take up the Second Class work.
Anne was conscious of a pang of loneliness when she found herself in
a room with fifty other students, not one of whom she knew, except the
tall, brown-haired boy across the room; and knowing him in the fashion
she did, did not help her much, as she reflected pessimistically.
Yet she was undeniably glad that they were in the same class; the old
rivalry could still be carried on, and Anne would hardly have known what
to do if it had been lacking.
語彙など
- scholar:生徒
- just in time:ぎりぎりの時間に
- whirl:(出来事などの)めまぐるしい連続
- by sight:顔は(知っている)
- assort:類別する
- take up:始める
- elect to:〜することを選択する
- license:免許
- stirrings of:〜への動揺
- ambition:大望
- conscious:意識する
- pang:悲痛
- loneliness:孤独
- fashion:やり方
- reflect:思案する
- pessimistically:悲観的に
- undeniably:明らかに
- carry on:継続する
- lacking:欠けている