I have a new unbreakable rule (у меня новое нерушимое правило;
unbreakable [An'breIkqb(q)l], abyss [q'bIs], ignorance ['Ignqrqns], depth [depT]
I have a new unbreakable rule: never, never to study at night no matter how many written reviews are coming in the morning. Instead, I read just plain books — I have to, you know, because there are eighteen blank years behind me. You wouldn't believe, Daddy, what an abyss of ignorance my mind is; I am just realizing the depths myself.
The things that most girls with a properly assorted family (о тех вещах, которые большинство девушек с должным образом подобранной семьей;
I never read Mother Goose (я никогда не читала «Матушку Гусыню») or David Copperfield (или «Дэвида Копперфилда») or Ivanhoe (или «Айвенго») or Cinderella (или «Золушку») or Blue Beard (или «Синюю Бороду») or Robinson Crusoe (или «Робинзона Крузо») or Jane Eyre (или «Джейн Эйр») or Alice in Wonderland (или «Алису в Стране Чудес») or a word of Rudyard Kipling (и ни слова из Редьярда Киплинга). I didn't know that Henry the Eighth was married more than once (я не знала, что Генрих VIII был женат несколько раз: «более чем единожды») or that Shelley was a poet (и что Шелли был поэтом). I didn't know that people used to be monkeys (я не знала, что раньше люди были обезьянами;
library ['laIbr(q)rI], absorption [qb'zO:pS(q)n, qb'sO:pS(q)n], monkey ['mANkI], Eden [i:dn], myth [mIT]
The things that most girls with a properly assorted family and a home and friends and a library know by absorption, I have never heard of. For example:
I never read Mother Goose or David Copperfield or Ivanhoe or Cinderella or Blue Beard or Robinson Crusoe or Jane Eyre or Alice in Wonderland or a word of Rudyard Kipling. I didn't know that Henry the Eighth was married more than once or that Shelley was a poet. I didn't know that people used to be monkeys and that the Garden of Eden was a beautiful myth. I didn't know that R. L. S. stood for Robert Louis Stevenson or that George Eliot was a lady.
I had never seen a picture of the 'Mona Lisa' (я никогда не видела картину «Мона Лиза») and (it's true but you won't believe it (и (это правда, но вы не поверите),) I had never heard of Sherlock Holmes (я никогда не слышала о Шерлоке Холмсе).