原文
"I'm just tired of everything . . . even of the echoes. There is nothing
in my life but echoes . . . echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys.
They're beautiful and mocking. Oh Anne, it's horrid of me to talk like
this when I have company. It's just that I'm getting old and it doesn't
agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully cranky by the time I'm sixty.
But perhaps all I need is a course of blue pills." At this moment
Charlotta the Fourth, who had disappeared after lunch, returned, and
announced that the northeast corner of Mr. John Kimball's pasture was
red with early strawberries, and wouldn't Miss Shirley like to go and
pick some.
語彙など
- tire of:うんざりする
- echo:エコー,こだま
- but:〜を除いて
- mocking:あざけるような
- horrid:恐ろしい,忌まわしい
- agree with:人の性に合う
- cranky:気難しい,偏屈な
- course of medication:薬物治療
- blue pill:青汞丸薬(金属水銀の微粒子を油脂中に分散させてつくったものを糖衣錠の形にしたもの)
- pasture:牧草地