درس 2

What an abundance of leisure he must have!
His leisure time was given up to natural history, and especially to mineralogy and botany.

They would have some time to enjoy a late Christmas at home when they returned.
You're beginning to enjoy it, aren't you?

Are you writing a book?
Another guy was writing for a magazine.

Sounds like a dime novel, doesn't it?
Her first independent novel, Indiana, was written.

You guys are my hobby; keeping you informed and safe.
It was more like a hobby – or maybe a collection.

"How strange!" she exclaimed, drawing a long breath.
The red planet beneath her was drawing closer.

Sonya sat in the drawing room at the round table, copying a design for embroidery.
That was something she had trouble imagining, but the wrought iron design was open and graceful.

I have to learn to control myself.
You need to learn a few more things on your own.

Want to play a game?
Sometimes Alex and Jonathan play soccer, and sometimes we all go for a ride in the buggy.

He obliged and she started to sing Happy Birthday.
"What shall I sing?" he asked.

He glanced at his watch and swallowed before answering.
Watch for that ambulance.

You be there to show her what a good sport you are.
There remained a second rope, various books on the sport of ice climbing and a few pitons.

Dusty rose to pull on his gym clothes.
I need an hour in the gym then we'll go over the logistics issues you're inheriting.

We have the skill and the strategy.
Darkyn's lie detector skill gave Deidre a tingling at the base of her skull that she took to be a red flag.

She glanced down at her swim suit.
Animals either swim or burrow.

Read books that are true.
He lifted the paper and started to read again.

I can't imagine what he was thinking to hide a thing like that from you.
The people did not like this.

I love you so much.
We love our parents, siblings and friends.

I hate peanut butter.
He was beginning to hate the cold.

They'll invite you to a sports game even though you've never expressed an interest or when you say "I like action movies" they'll only hear "movies" and take you to a hip-hop dance flick because they think that's what women like.
Fiona was best friends with Ronnie and together they formed a hip-hop duo, Fresh & Fly.

It was agreed that one rap should mean "no" and three "yes," while more complicated messages were - and are - obtained in other ways, such as calling over or pointing to letters of the alphabet, when raps occur at the required letters.
A rap on the doors of the bottom two apartments brought no better results than the doorbell.

Patience wasn't his strong suit and Mrs. Lincoln and jazz music somehow weren't sufficient evening entertainment.
He and Fred did not enjoy the same music so when both were home the five-disc machine usually contained two jazz selections for Dean, two country and western for Fred, and a pop group neither liked but both could tolerate.

The Latin word for "cow" is vacca.
He was educated privately and was so precocious a boy as to translate a Latin version of the Battle of the Frogs and Mice into French in 1796, which was published by his father in 1797.

Don't just stand there.
He can't stand to sit around and do nothing.

Everybody has a mother and father.
Everybody is tempted now and then, Cassie.

Nobody stays at home to look after the kids any more.
Maybe it was nobody at all.

I will lead you to it.
I'm so glad I have you.

I love you so much.
I remember you very well.

She is betraying us!
On that subject she was adamant.

Even so, she had accepted it in her mind to a degree.
His mother shook her head and said: No, Benjamin.

But he paid no attention to her warning.
He will save Europe!

They could not give him any help.
Looking down at him, she sighed.

The fire snapped as it grew.
It was the earthquake.

What time are we going to leave tomorrow?
We wouldn't grow under ground, I'm sure.

You didn't tell us it was her birthday.
I hope he likes us all.

They had two adopted children already.
They say she is amazingly beautiful.

We'll take care of them together.
After lunch, all four of them went outside to play ball.

Everyone was looking at her.
Everyone was staring at her as if they expected her to faint or something.

I really like the look of wood - especially when it looks this graceful.
You look really tired.

It's like a chess game, and the humans are pawns to be used and destroyed, he explained.
In it he wrote on a great variety of subjects, including chess and whist.

We won't have you skiing any place where you're not comfortable.
During the two weeks there was a Mexican dinner at the Catholic church, a couple of movies, three evenings at the Ouray Hot Springs Pool and even a day of downhill skiing at Telluride.

I'll write something every day.
"Quick, write down the plate number," I said.

Human philosophy, theoretical physics, poetry, Italian Masters, romance.
He loved poetry and soon began to write poems of his own.