原文
"Trees haven't souls," said practical Diana, "but the smell of dead fir
is certainly lovely. I'm going to make a cushion and fill it with fir
needles. You'd better make one too, Anne."
"I think I shall . . . and use it for my naps. I'd be certain to dream I was a dryad or a woodnymph then. But just this minute I'm well content to be Anne Shirley, Avonlea schoolma'am, driving over a road like this on such a sweet, friendly day."
"It's a lovely day but we have anything but a lovely task before us," sighed Diana. "Why on earth did you offer to canvass this road, Anne? Almost all the cranks in Avonlea live along it, and we'll probably be treated as if we were begging for ourselves. It's the very worst road of all."
語彙など
- soul:魂,精神
- practical:現実的な
- cushion:クッション
- fir needles:モミの針状の葉
- nap:うたた寝,昼寝
- dryad:ドリュアス(木の精)
- nymph:ニンフ(ギリシャ神話)
- content:満足している
- anything but:〜とは程遠い
- task:仕事
- sigh:ため息をつく
- on earth:一体(全体)
- canvass:=canvas,(支持･寄付･投票･意見などを)求める
- crank:変人
- beg:物乞いをする