这些东西是莎莉•麦可白帮我在高年级学生办的拍卖会上挑的。她从小到大都在家里住，对于家具摆饰颇有经验。如果您这辈子从没拿超过5毛钱，您是很难体会那种购物的乐趣。用一张真的5元钞票去买东西，还能找些零头回来！我向您保证，亲爱的叔叔，我对您给的零用钱真的心存感激。

Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world--and Julia Rutledge Pendleton the least so. It's queer what a mixture the registrar can make in the matter of room-mates. Sallie thinks everything is funny--even flunking--and Julia is bored at everything. She never makes the slightest effort to be amiable. She believes that if you are a Pendleton, that fact alone admits you to heaven without any further examination. Julia and I were born to be enemies.

莎莉算是全世界最好的人了，而茱莉亚•平莱顿则相反。注册处的人将这么一对安排在一起，可真够古怪的。莎莉觉得每件事，甚至连考试不及格都很有趣。而茱莉亚则不然，事事都让她不开心，对人从未有过亲切的表示。也许她相信，只要是平莱顿家族的，无庸置疑一定可以上天堂的——茱莉亚跟我是天生的冤家。

And now I suppose you've been waiting very impatiently to hear what I am learning?

现在您一定急于知道我的功课情况吧？

I. Latin: Second Punic war. Hannibal and his forces pitched camp at Lake Trasimenus last night. They prepared an ambuscade for the Romans, and a battle took place at the fourth watch this morning. Romans in retreat.

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