原文
"Why?" moaned Phil. "Oh, why must a minister's wife be supposed to utter
only prunes and prisms? I shan't. Everybody on Patterson Street uses
slang--that is to say, metaphorical language--and if I didn't they would
think me insufferably proud and stuck up."
語彙など
- moan:うめき声を出す
- utter:口から出す
- prunes and prisms:affected, primly precise, or priggish speech or behavior
- slang:俗語
- metaphorical:隠喩的な
- insufferably:我慢ならないほど
- stuck-up:生意気な,高慢ちきな