Online Class Notes (Ally)

就算他打再多的电话过来，我也不会理他的 (3 sentences each in addition to this one)

a ridiculous weibo announcement

Vocabulary

saliva: kou shui

without further ado: no more chitchat, let’s get down to work

Grammar

tense : time of verb

voice

I really like this class hw
I really like the hw today/ today’s hw
I really like the hw for this class

the govt is cheating on us
the govt is cheating us of 2 days

she suicide herself
she committed suicide

Grammar

even: emphasis
ie. I keep myself polite, even when I am angry.
ie. I can’t even imagine it.

even+if: conditional
ie. Even if I tried, I wouldn’t make it.
ie. Even if you take an umbrella, you still need sunscreen.

even though: A and B are different
ie. Even though I’m a cat person, I have been searching up cute puppies.
ie. Even though i tried, I didn’t make it.
ie. Even though I learned this before, I still have no idea how to use it.

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)

Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow. She grew up in an artistic and relatively affluent family. Her father was a professor and founder of the Museum of Fine Arts, and her mother was a concert pianist. Her first poem Evening Album was published in 1910, when she was 18/She published her first poem at 8 years old. She has devoted her life to poetry, verse plays, and prose pieces. Her poems were written on the subject of life and death, love and art, and time and country. She is good at using a delicate, lovely, powerful but suppressed style of female gaze to view/observe a time of change and turbulence in Russian history. She is considered as one of the most renowned poets of 20th-century Russia.

Poem #2
从童话到童话

一切是你的：期盼着奇迹，
四月里整个的忧伤，
如此急切地响往天空的一切，——
可是，你不需要什么理性。
直到死亡来临，我仍然是
一个小女孩，哪怕只是你的小女孩。

亲爱的，在这个冬天的黄昏，
请像小男孩一般，和我在一起。
不要打断我的惊奇，
像一个小男孩，总是
在可怕的奥秘中，让我依然
做个小女孩，哪怕已成为你的妻

#Translation by me#
From a fairy tale to a fairy tale

Everything is yours: looking forward to a miracle/praying for a miracle/wishing for a miracle/longing for a miracle/fingers crossed for a miracle,
a whole sadness in April,
Everything can’t stop filling the sky, —
However, you don’t need reasons/practicality.
until death comes, I am still a little girl,
even if just your little girl.

Dear, at this winter dusk,
Please like a little boy, stay with me.
Do not break in my surprise,
Like a little boy, always
In a terrible secret. Make me still
Be a little girl, even was your wife.

In a terrible mystery, let me still be a little girl,
even when I’m already your wife.

#Translation by Google#
FROM A FAIRY TALE – TO A FAIRY TALE

All yours: longing for a miracle,
All the melancholy of April days
Everything that stretched so towards the sky –
But do not demand intelligence.
I’ll be dead to death
A girl, although yours.

Honey, this winter evening
Be like a little one with me.
Don’t bother me to be surprised
Be like a boy in a terrible secret
And stay help me
A girl, although a wife.

Pronunciation

25th : twenty-fifth