We didn't get back to college till half-past six (в колледж мы вернулись только в половине седьмого) — half an hour late for dinner (на полчаса опоздали на ужин) — and we went straight in without dressing (и мы направились прямиком в /столовую/, не переодеваясь), and with perfectly unimpaired appetites (с совершенно неослабленными /съеденным нами/ аппетитами;
strawberry ['strO:b(q)rI], jam [dZxm], syrup ['sIrqp], unimpaired ["AnIm'peqd], appetite ['xpItaIt]
Anyway, all nineteen of us settled like locusts over the furniture and clamoured for honey. There wasn't enough to go round, but Mrs. Crystal Spring (that's our pet name for her; she's by rights a Johnson) brought up a jar of strawberry jam and a can of maple syrup — just made last week — and three loaves of brown bread.
We didn't get back to college till half-past six — half an hour late for dinner — and we went straight in without dressing, and with perfectly unimpaired appetites! Then we all cut evening chapel, the state of our boots being enough of an excuse.
I never told you about examinations (я ничего не рассказала вам об экзаменах;
Speaking of classics (говоря о классиках), have you ever read Hamlet (вы когда-нибудь читали «Гамлета»)? If you haven't, do it right off (если нет, сделайте это немедленно). It's
quotation [kwqV'teIS(q)n], classic ['klxsIk], corking ['kO:kIN]
I never told you about examinations. I passed everything with the utmost ease — I know the secret now, and am never going to fail again. I shan't be able to graduate with honours though, because of that beastly Latin prose and geometry Freshman year. But I don't care. Wot's the hodds so long as you're 'appy? (That's a quotation. I've been reading the English classics.)
Speaking of classics, have you ever read Hamlet? If you haven't, do it right off. It's
I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life (я слышала о Шекспире всю свою жизнь), but I had no idea he really wrote so well (но я и понятия не имела, что он действительно так хорошо писал;