原文
"Well, you'll get into no end of hot water if you do. Better leave it
alone, Anne, that's what. People don't like being improved."
"Oh, we are not going to try to improve the PEOPLE. It is Avonlea itself. There are lots of things which might be done to make it prettier. For instance, if we could coax Mr. Levi Boulter to pull down that dreadful old house on his upper farm wouldn't that be an improvement?"
語彙など
- hot water:トラブル,苦境
- leave:〜をそのままにしておく
- improve:向上させる
- for instance:例えば
- coax:説得する
- dreadful:ひどい
- improvement:改善,向上