原文
When school was dismissed and the children had gone Anne dropped wearily
into her chair. Her head ached and she felt woefully discouraged. There
was no real reason for discouragement, since nothing very dreadful had
occurred; but Anne was very tired and inclined to believe that she would
never learn to like teaching. And how terrible it would be to be doing
something you didn't like every day for . . . well, say forty years. Anne
was of two minds whether to have her cry out then and there, or wait
till she was safely in her own white room at home. Before she could
decide there was a click of heels and a silken swish on the porch floor,
and Anne found herself confronted by a lady whose appearance made her
recall a recent criticism of Mr. Harrison's on an overdressed female he
had seen in a Charlottetown store. "She looked like a head-on collision
between a fashion plate and a nightmare."
語彙など
- dismiss:解散させる
- wearily:だるそうにして
- ache:痛む
- woefully:ひどく
- dreadful:ひどい,無惨な
- then and there:その場で,直ちに
- click:カチッという音
- heel:かかと,ハイヒール
- silken:絹の
- swish:ヒューと言う音
- porch:玄関
- confront:応対する
- appearance:外見
- criticism:非難
- head-on collision:正面衝突
- fashion plate:最新流行服を着ている人,おしゃれさん