Cecily Flashcards
A2
‘‘I dont like……. It isnt at all a…….’’’
'’I dont like German. It isnt at all a becoming Language.’’ A2
A2
‘‘Dear Uncle…… is so very…..!’’
'’Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious!’’
A2
‘‘I keep a…… in order to enter the………. of my….’’
A2 - ‘‘I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life’’
A2
‘‘I dont like…… that end…… They depress me……’’
I don’t like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.- A2
A2
‘‘Horrid………! Horrid……! Horrid, horrid…….!’’
“Horrid Political Economy! Horrid Geography! Horrid, horrid German!” A2
A2
‘‘I have never…… any really……. before. I feel rather…… I am so afraid he will look…….’’
“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else”- A2
A2
‘‘I hope you have not been…… a……., pretending to be……. and being really….. all the time. That would be……’’
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”- A2
A2
‘‘Well, i know, of course, how important it is not to…….., if one wants to retain any sense of the…….’’
“Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life”- A2
A2
‘‘It is rather…… of you’’
“It is rather Quixotic of you”- A2
A2
‘‘But what……. you have got on!’’
“But what horrid clothes you have got on!”- A2
A2
‘‘I think your…… does you………… credit’’
“I think your frankness does you great credit”-A2 (contextualise)
A2
‘‘Oh no…. it is simply a young girls…….. of her own…… and….., and consequently meant for……’’
“Oh no… it is simply a young girl’s publication of her own thought and impressions, and consequently meant for publication”-A2
A2
‘‘Why, we have been…… for the last…’’
“Why, we have been engaged for the last three months”- A2
A2
‘‘the three you wrote me after………. are so beautiful and so…….. that even now i can hardly read them………. a little’’
“the three you wrote me after I broke off the engagement are so beautiful and so badly spelled that even no I can hardly read them without crying a little”-A2
A2
‘‘To-day i broke off my….. with….. I feel it is better…… The weather still……..’’
“‘To-day I broke off my engagement with Ernest. I feel it is better to do so. The weather still continues charming’”- A2
A2
‘‘It wouldnt have been a really….. engagement if it hadnt been……. at least…’’
“it wouldn’t have been a really serious engagement if it hadn’t been broken off at least once”-A2
A2
‘‘I hope your hair…….., does it’’
“I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?”-A2
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‘‘it had always been a…….. of mine to love one………. was……’’
“it had always been a girlish dream of mine to love one whose name was Ernest”-A2
A2
‘‘but i dont like the……….’’.
“but I don’t like the name of Algernon”- A2
A2
‘‘couldnt you make it………’’
“couldn’t you make it twenty minutes”-A2
A2
‘‘I like his hair……’’
“I like his hair so much”- A2
A2
‘‘Miss……. I suppose one of the…….. good………’’
“Miss Fairfax! I suppose one of the many good elderly women….” - A2
A2
‘‘I dont quite like……. who are interested in………. work’’
“I don’t quite like quiet women who are interested in philanthropic work”- A2
A2
‘‘I am very……. of being……. at’’
“I am very fond of being looked at”- A2
