原文
"Well, I always like to look on the bright side, Eliza."
"There isn't any bright side."
"Oh, indeed there is," cried Anne, who couldn't endure such heresy in silence. "Why, there are ever so many bright sides, Miss Andrews. It's really a beautiful world."
"You won't have such a high opinion of it when you've lived as long in it as I have," retorted Miss Eliza sourly, "and you won't be so enthusiastic about improving it either. How is your mother, Diana? Dear me, but she has failed of late. She looks terrible run down. And how long is it before Marilla expects to be stone blind, Anne?"
語彙など
- look on:〜を見る
- bright:明るい
- indeed:本当に,実際に
- endure:〜を我慢する
- heresy:異説
- in silence:黙って
- high opinion:高い評価
- retort:鋭く言い返す
- sourly:不機嫌に
- enthusiastic about:〜に熱心な
- Dear me!:まあ!,えっ!(驚きや感動を示す)
- of late:最近
- run down:元気がなくなる
- stone-blind:全盲の