درس دوم - داستان‌های شخصی

They say she is amazingly beautiful.
He was amazingly good, his fingers plucking the strings with quick nimble strokes.

Fortunately, breakfast was nothing like she imagined.
Fortunately, Gerald and Sam had escaped.

One day she said, sadly: I am blind and deaf.
But sadly, other people don't think his work is any good.

The voice was strangely timid.
The name looks strangely familiar.

Luckily, they were the only ones in the lobby, so quickly obtained a room.
He might have just fallen, luckily closer to the bottom than the top, or he'd be a dead man.

Why would she suddenly remember that phrase?
Suddenly, she jumped to her feet.

Surprisingly, he wasn't satisfied by it.
Surprisingly, Quinn said nothing.

Unfortunately, this session was unsuccessful.
Unfortunately, he has said nothing to me about you.

I guess that's a good question.
I guess I'm not a good investigator.

I've never been so frightened in my life.
He was frightened and ready to cry.

You do amuse me.
"He shall amuse us with his tricks tomorrow," said the Princess.

I like a challenge once in a while.
We had no right to challenge his choices in spite of our lives being tied to his as tightly as a water-logged knot.

It would only confuse the issue further.
For the same reason it is erroneous to confuse " all existing" with a general idea.

Kiera took two steps back, shuddering in disgust and fear.
He made no attempt to hide the disgust in his eyes.

You'd just embarrass the poor guy.
I didn't mean to embarrass you.

This will excite the curiosity of our structural engineers.
The least stimulus which suffices to excite is known as the stimulus of threshold value.

There was little interest in another round of Monopoly.
Somehow it failed to interest me.

They still had something mysterious and exciting to explore.
It should have been an exciting discovery.

He'd been so excited about his phone.
I'm too excited to remember!

For a moment he looked confused, and then turned away.
Sarah seemed confused as well.

The words sounded confusing, even to her.
Catharsis can be a confusing emotional experience for some people.

It was sweet and amusing by turns.
His mock heroics are, to say the least, amusing, and among these may be mentioned Myszeis, where he describes how King Popiel, according to the legend, was eaten up by rats.

He studied her face with amused eyes.
Alex shifted a faintly amused gaze to Carmen.

All this talk about bears was frightening her.
I don't care how frightening it will be, I want to go ahead.

Her stomach grumbled but the thought of a ham sandwich disgusted her.
In 1832 the Avenir was condemned, and the disgusted Lamennais left the Roman Church.

"Well there certainly are disgusting people," thought Rostov as he entered.
"The mob is terrible--disgusting," he said to himself in French.

I must be boring you to death.
She didn't stay long in the boring room.

I'm not bored, but it is getting late.
He must be getting bored with watching her.

I truly believe he may be interested in doing the same to you.
Are you as interested in photography as we are?

That was certainly a surprising turn of events!
It is not surprising that we are taking awhile to get it right.

I was a little surprised at the invitation.
I'm surprised to see you out here.

There's nothing to be embarrassed about.
I was kind of embarrassed about the money not coming in the mail like I said.

This is embarrassing, but I really need the money for gro­ceries.
I suppose it's getting a little embarrassing now.