原文
On the morning when the final results of all the examinations were to be
posted on the bulletin board at Queen's, Anne and Jane walked down the
street together. Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over
and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further
considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions
and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For
we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although
ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but
exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
Anne was pale and quiet; in ten more minutes she would know who had
won the medal and who the Avery. Beyond those ten minutes there did not
seem, just then, to be anything worth being called Time.
語彙など
- post on:公表する,発表する
- bulletin board:掲示板
- consideration:考慮
- trouble:煩わせる
- soaring:高邁な
- consequently:その結果
- unrest:不安,心配
- attendant:付随する,付き物の
- thereon:その結果
- pay a price for:犠牲を払う
- cheaply:手軽に
- exact:要求する,強いる
- due:代償
- self-denial:禁欲,克己
- anxiety:心配事,気遣い
- discouragement:落胆