原文
"Nothing very dreadful. I was just trying to write out some of my
thoughts, as Professor Hamilton advised me, but I couldn't get them to
please me. They seem so still and foolish directly they're written down
on white paper with black ink. Fancies are like shadows . . . you can't
cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. But perhaps I'll learn
the secret some day if I keep on trying. I haven't a great many spare
moments, you know. By the time I finish correcting school exercises and
compositions, I don't always feel like writing any of my own."
"You are getting on splendidly in school, Anne. All the children like you," said Gilbert, sitting down on the stone step.
語彙など
- dreadful:ひどい
- still:ひっそりしている,黙っている
- foolish:ばかばかしい
- directly:そのまま
- write down:書き留める
- fancy:空想
- cage:かごに入れる
- wayward:気まぐれな
- spare moment:余分な時間
- composition:作文
- feel like:〜したい気分である
- get on:うまくいく,成功する
- splendidly:立派に
- stone step:石段