原文
"Oh," sighed Anne. "I can't describe how I felt when I was standing
there, waiting my turn to be registered--as insignificant as the
teeniest drop in a most enormous bucket. It's bad enough to feel
insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul
that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant, and that
is how I did feel--as if I were invisible to the naked eye and some of
those Sophs might step on me. I knew I would go down to my grave unwept,
unhonored and unsung."
語彙など
- register:登録する
- insignificant:取るに足らない
- teeny:ちっちゃな
- unbearable:耐えられない
- grain:粒にするにする
- invisible to:〜に対して見えない
- naked eye:肉眼
- soph:二年生
- step on:〜を踏みつける
- unwept:嘆く者もない
- unhonored:尊敬されていない