Home Assignment

A. Translate into Romanian by using both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries:

“Always in our house one of life’s principal sensual pleasures has been to smell at fresh
coffee. I would go to Sheffield with my mother, to Davey’s provision store; there take a
morning coffee at a low table, and then accompany her round the various counters for
brawn, pressed-ham, crisp golden tubes of sugar fried in fat, and the fresh-ground coffee
which came in crackling green bags tied with thin string. When we got home it was
always my job to empty the coffee into our coffee tin, squeezing the bag until not a grain
was left. Then came the savouring as we passed the tin around, sniffing carefully so as
not to inhale the powder.”
Una dintre plăcerile senzuale principale ale vieții a fost intotdeauna in casa noastra să
miroși cafeaua proaspătă. Aș merge la Sheffield cu mama, la magazinul de provizii al lui
Davey; acolo iau cafeaua diminetii la o masuta și apoi o insotesc în jurul diferitelor
tejghele pentru muschi, sunca presată, tuburi crocante de zahăr prăjit în ulei și cafeaua
proaspăt măcinată care a venit în pungi verzi fosnitoare legate cu sfoară subțire.
Când ajungeam acasă, treaba mea era întotdeauna să golesc cafeaua în cutia noastra de
cafea, strângând punga până nu mai rămânea nici măcar un bob. Apoi savurand dadeam
cutia de jur împrejur, adulmecând cu grijă astfel incat să nu inhalăm pulberea.”
(from I Said the Sparrow by Paul West)
B. Translate into English by using both monolingual and bilingual dictionaries:
a. Nu-l mai vazuse atat de dezamagit de multa vreme.
b. Copiii se joaca in gradina in fiecare dupa-amiaza.
c. Uite! Rasare luna!
d. De indata ce am intrat in Predeal, a inceput sa ninga.
e. L-am intalnit acum cateva zile pe cand ma plimbam pe strada.
f. Voi pleca la munte saptamana viitoare.
g. Am terminat deja primul capitol din carte.
h. Ai vazut vreodata nuferi?
„Judecata era de o nedreptate scandaloasa si se vedea ca nu vine decat din rautate.
Pascalopol incerca sa imblanzeasca situatia.
- Cocoana Aglae, azi esti rau dispusa. Domnisoara Otilia canta minunat, e o artista.
Aurica lasa capul in jos, strangandu-si buzele intre dinti.
- Asa esti dumneata, galant, mai arunca Aglae o intepatura. Mai bine mi-ai spune ce sa
fac cu Titi, ca sunt foarte suparata. L-a lasat corigent, iar il persecuta fiindca el e timid,
nu e indraznet ca altii a fost si bolnav.
Poate cunosti pe cineva, sa puna o vorba buna la toamna.
- Punem, punem, cum sa nu, se oferi Pascalopol, intotdeauna indatoritor, dar eu zic ca
pana atuncea sa-l prepare cineva, ca sa fim mai siguri.”
(George Calinescu, Enigma Otiliei)
a. She hadn't seen him so disappointed in a long time.
b. The children play in the garden every afternoon.
c. Look! Moon is rising!
d. As soon as we entered Predeal, it started to snow.
e. I met him a few days ago while I was walking on the street.
f. I will go to the mountains next week.
g. I have already finished the first chapter of the book.
h. Have you ever seen water lilies?
"The judgment was a scandalous injustice, and it could be seen that it only comes from malice.
Pascalopol tries to tame the situation.
- Cocoana Aglae, you are in a bad mood today. Miss Otilia sings beautifully; she is an artist.
Aurica lowers her head, pressing her lips between her teeth.
- That's how you are, gallant, Aglae throws another jab. You'd better tell me what to do with Titi
because I'm very upset. He left him correct and persecuted him because he is shy, he is not brave
like others, and he was sick.
Maybe you know someone, put in a good word in the fall.
- We put it, we put it, how can we not, offered Pascalopol, always obliging, but I say that until
then someone should prepare it, so that we can be surer.

"The judgment was a scandalous injustice, and it could be seen that it only comes from malice.
Pascalopol tries to tame the situation.
- Lady Aglae, you are in a bad mood today. Miss Otilia sings beautifully; she is an artist.
Aurica lowers her head, pinched her lips between her teeth.
- That's how you are, gallant, Aglae throws another jab. You'd better tell me what to do with Titi
because I'm very upset. He left him flunk, and he persecuted him because he is shy, he is not
bold like others, he was also sick.
Maybe you know someone, to put a good word in the autumn.
- We put , we put , how can we not, offered Pascalopol, always obliging, but I say that until then
someone should prepare him, so that we can be sure."
(George Calinescu, Enigma Otiliei)