我笑了笑说:“才不呢。”我想我能挺得过去。至少思乡病是我绝不会染上的疾病,没听说过有人想孤儿院的,是吗?
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Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
亲爱的长腿叔叔:
Did you ever hear of Michael Angelo?
您听说过米开朗琪罗吗?
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, I just keep still and look them up in the encyclopedia.
他是中世纪意大利著名画家,上英国文学课的人好像都知道他。我说他是个天使,惹得全班哄堂大笑。可那名字听上去很像天使,您说是吗?糟糕的是在大学里,大家都认为你应该懂得一些你根本没学过的东西。有时真的让人很尴尬,不过现在只要女孩们提到我不懂的事,我就闭口不言,而是回去查查字典。
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!
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