原文
"Why, she scrubbed the kitchen floor every second day," Mrs. Lynde told
Marilla Cuthbert indignantly, "and if you could see it now! I had to
hold up my skirts as I walked across it."
Finally, Mr. Harrison kept a parrot called Ginger. Nobody in Avonlea had ever kept a parrot before; consequently that proceeding was considered barely respectable. And such a parrot! If you took John Henry Carter's word for it, never was such an unholy bird. It swore terribly. Mrs. Carter would have taken John Henry away at once if she had been sure she could get another place for him. Besides, Ginger had bitten a piece right out of the back of John Henry's neck one day when he had stooped down too near the cage. Mrs. Carter showed everybody the mark when the luckless John Henry went home on Sundays.
語彙など
- scrub:〜を磨きあげる
- every second day:1日おきに,隔日に
- indignantly:怒って
- parrot:オウム
- consequently:その結果として,したがって
- proceeding:行為
- respectable:立派な,尊敬すべき
- unholy:神聖でない
- swear:悪態をつく,毒づく
- besides:そのうえ,おまけに
- bite:〜をかむ,〜にかみつく
- stoop down:前かがみになる
- luckless:不運な