原文
For two years she had worked earnestly and faithfully, making many
mistakes and learning from them. She had had her reward. She had taught
her scholars something, but she felt that they had taught her much
more . . . lessons of tenderness, self-control, innocent wisdom, lore
of childish hearts. Perhaps she had not succeeded in "inspiring" any
wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her
own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good
and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives
finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness,
keeping aloof from all that savored of falsehood and meanness and
vulgarity. They were, perhaps, all unconscious of having learned such
lessons; but they would remember and practice them long after they had
forgotten the capital of Afghanistan and the dates of the Wars of the
Roses.
語彙など
- earnestly:熱心に
- faithfully:忠実に
- make a mistake:誤りを犯す
- reward:報酬
- scholar:学生
- lesson:貴重な経験
- tenderness:優しさ
- self-control:自制
- innocent:邪心のない
- lore:教え
- inspire:鼓舞する
- ambition:大きな望み
- personality:性格
- precept:処世訓
- finely:立派に
- graciously:優しく
- fast:しっかりと
- courtesy:礼儀正しさ
- aloof:遠く離れて,超然として
- savor of:〜が感じられる
- falsehood:うそ
- meanness:卑劣
- vulgarity:下品
- unconscious:〜に気付かないで
- capital:首都
- Wars of the Roses:バラ戦争