原文
Most of them were, of course, quite well known to her. Her own
classmates had passed out in the preceding year but the rest had all
gone to school with her, excepting the primer class and ten newcomers
to Avonlea. Anne secretly felt more interest in these ten than in those
whose possibilities were already fairly well mapped out to her. To be
sure, they might be just as commonplace as the rest; but on the other
hand there MIGHT be a genius among them. It was a thrilling idea.
語彙など
- pass out:出て行く,去る
- preceding year:前の年
- primer:入門書,手引書
- newcomer:新参者
- possibility:可能性,見込み
- map out:精密に描く,調査する
- to be sure:いかにも,なるほど
- commonplace:普通の
- on the other hand:他方では
- genius:天才
- thrilling:わくわくさせる