原文
"I'm just as ambitious as ever. Only, I've changed the object of my
ambitions. I'm going to be a good teacher--and I'm going to save your
eyesight. Besides, I mean to study at home here and take a little
college course all by myself. Oh, I've dozens of plans, Marilla. I've
been thinking them out for a week. I shall give life here my best, and
I believe it will give its best to me in return. When I left Queen's my
future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought
I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I
don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the
best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder
how the road beyond it goes--what there is of green glory and
soft, checkered light and shadows--what new landscapes--what new
beauties--what curves and hills and valleys further on."
語彙など
- ambitious:大望のある
- object:目的,対象
- eyesight:視力
- besides:そのうえ
- dozens of:何十もの
- think out:案出する,考え抜く
- in return:お返しに,引き換えに
- stretch out:広がる
- many a:(単数形の名詞を伴って) 数々の
- milestone:里程標式,一里塚
- bend:カーブ
- fascination:魅力
- glory:壮観
- checker:〜を格子縞模様にする
- landscape:風景