'I'm so homesick (я так тоскую по дому) that I simply can't stand it (что просто не могу этого вынести;
I smiled a little and said no (я слегка улыбнулась и сказала что нет); I thought I could pull through (я думаю, что могу как-то пережить это;
home-sick ['hqVm"sIk], homesickness ['hqVm"sIknIs], disease [dI'zi:z]
P.S. (9 o'clock.)
Sallie McBride just poked her head in at my door. This is what she said:
'I'm so homesick that I simply can't stand it. Do you feel that way?'
I smiled a little and said no; I thought I could pull through. At least homesickness is one disease that I've escaped! I never heard of anybody being asylum-sick, did you?
October 10th.
Did you ever hear of Michael Angelo (вы когда-нибудь слышали о Микеланджело)?
He was a famous artist (он был знаменитым живописцем;
famous ['feImqs], archangel ['Q:keIndZ(q)l], embarrassing [Im'bxrqsIN]
Did you ever hear of Michael Angelo?
He was a famous artist who lived in Italy in the Middle Ages. Everybody in English Literature seemed to know about him, and the whole class laughed because I thought he was an archangel. He sounds like an archangel, doesn't he? The trouble with college is that you are expected to know such a lot of things you've never learned. It's very embarrassing at times.
But now, when the girls talk about things that I never heard of (но теперь, когда девушки говорят о вещах, о которых я никогда не слышала), I just keep still and look them up in the encyclopedia (я помалкиваю и отыскиваю их в энциклопедии;
I made an awful mistake the first day (я совершила ужасную ошибку в первый же день). Somebody mentioned Maurice Maeterlinck (кто-то упомянул Мориса Метерлинка), and I asked if she was a Freshman (а я спросила, она, что, первокурсница). That joke has gone all over college (это шутка облетела: «обошла» весь колледж). But anyway, I'm just as bright in class as any of the others (но, в любом случае, я такая же смышленая в нашей группе, как и все остальные;
encyclopedia [In"saIklq'pi:dIq], joke [dZqVk], bright [braIt]
But now, when the girls talk about things that I never heard of, I just keep still and look them up in the encyclopedia.
I made an awful mistake the first day. Somebody mentioned Maurice Maeterlinck, and I asked if she was a Freshman. That joke has gone all over college. But anyway, I'm just as bright in class as any of the others — and brighter than some of them!