Behold me — a Sophomore (полюбуйтесь на меня — второкурсница)! I came up last Friday (я приехала /в колледж/ в прошлую пятницу), sorry to leave Lock Willow (/мне было/ жаль покидать Лок-Уиллоу), but glad to see the campus again (но /я была/ рада увидеть территорию колледжа снова). It is a pleasant sensation to come back to something familiar (это приятное ощущение — возвращаться к чему-то знакомому). I am beginning to feel at home in college (в колледже я начинаю чувствовать себя как дома), and in command of the situation (и хозяйкой положения;
I don't suppose you understand in the least (я полагаю, что вы не понимаете ни в малейшей степени;
familiar [fq'mIlIq], crept [krept], sufferance ['sAf(q)rqns]
Behold me — a Sophomore! I came up last Friday, sorry to leave Lock Willow, but glad to see the campus again. It is a pleasant sensation to come back to something familiar. I am beginning to feel at home in college, and in command of the situation; I am beginning, in fact, to feel at home in the world — as though I really belonged to it and had not just crept in on sufferance.
I don't suppose you understand in the least what I am trying to say.
A person important enough to be a Trustee (человек, достаточно влиятельный, чтобы быть попечителем;
And now, Daddy, listen to this (а теперь, Папочка, послушайте-ка вот что). Whom do you think I am rooming with (с кем, как вы думаете, я живу в одной комнате)? Sallie McBride and Julia Rutledge Pendleton. It's the truth (это /сущая/ правда). We have a study and three little bedrooms (у нас кабинет =
Sallie and I decided last spring (мы с Салли решили прошлой весной) that we should like to room together (что нам бы хотелось жить вместе в одной комнате), and Julia made up her mind to stay with Sallie (а Джулия решила остаться вместе с Салли) — why, I can't imagine (почему — не могу себе представить), for they are not a bit alike (ведь они совершенно не похожи;
truth [tru:T], conservative [kqn'sq:vqtIv], inimical [I'nImIk(q)l]
A person important enough to be a Trustee can't appreciate the feelings of a person unimportant enough to be a foundling.
And now, Daddy, listen to this. Whom do you think I am rooming with? Sallie McBride and Julia Rutledge Pendleton. It's the truth. We have a study and three little bedrooms —