原文
"Judging from what you all, say" remarked Aunt Jamesina, "the sum
and substance is that you can learn--if you've got natural gumption
enough--in four years at college what it would take about twenty years
of living to teach you. Well, that justifies higher education in my
opinion. It's a matter I was always dubious about before."
"But what about people who haven't natural gumption, Aunt Jimsie?"
語彙など
- remark:(意見を)述べる
- sum and substance:根本,要点
- gumption:進取の気性
- justify:正当化する
- dubious:疑わしい