原文
"Anne says Paul is a genius," said Mrs. Sloane.
"He may be. You never know what to expect of them Americans," said Mrs. Andrews. Mrs. Andrews' only acquaintance with the word "genius" was derived from the colloquial fashion of calling any eccentric individual "a queer genius." She probably thought, with Mary Joe, that it meant a person with something wrong in his upper story.
語彙など
- genius:天才
- acquaintance:知識
- derive from:〜から得る
- colloquial:日常会話の
- eccentric:変わった
- individual:個人
- upper story:頭,おつむ