原文
After the first week the girls of Patty's Place settled down to a steady
grind of study; for this was their last year at Redmond and graduation
honors must be fought for persistently. Anne devoted herself to English,
Priscilla pored over classics, and Philippa pounded away at Mathematics.
Sometimes they grew tired, sometimes they felt discouraged, sometimes
nothing seemed worth the struggle for it. In one such mood Stella
wandered up to the blue room one rainy November evening. Anne sat on the
floor in a little circle of light cast by the lamp beside her, amid a
surrounding snow of crumpled manuscript.
語彙など
- grind:ガリ勉学生
- persistently:絶え間なく
- pore over:〜に打ち込む
- pound away:攻撃する
- amid:〜に囲まれて
- crumpled:しわくちゃの
- manuscript:手書きのもの