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Some words about my favorite story
Sometimes I think about the fact that unfortunately we can’t explore all the wonderful pieces of world art and culture, even if we try to do our best. By the end of our life we will not have read or seen even one fourth of books and movies that are worth attention. There are so many deep, pleasurable and breathtaking stories that it’s always hard to pick one of them as a favorite. However some of them will just stay as good acquaintances forever, while others become really close friends and obtain a special meaning.
One of these special stories for me is Penny Dreadful, a British-American horror drama. It’s a TV show about Victorian England and a battle against mysterious creatures. Every character is unique and has a skeleton in the cupboard, but in general the plot is devoted to one specific woman. Her name is Vanessa Yves. She is a medium and a gorgeous dame, amazing, but lonely. She did some mistakes in the past and nowadays, she tries to save her beloved friend who was carried away by the most dangerous vampire in history. But as time goes by we see that the only goal of all the world evil is Vanessa herself. She has to cope with ancient demons attacking her again and again to grab her immortal soul. Her desperate struggling and powerful personality are the main topics of all three seasons of the show.
Of course in a symbolic way it’s a story about overcoming your inner demons and personal fears. Vanessa teaches us how to be yourself in spite of the fact, some people may threaten you or, on the contrary, promise their love, if you do what they want. She keeps being true under all the pressure she suffers from, and that’s way I love her so much.
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The best place to live
The place I would like to live in is Bavaria, Germany. I have been there twice and it was love at the first sight. Everything in this land fascinates me: medieval castles, snowy Bavarian Alps, neat, romantic and well-maintained cities, cozy and peaceful villages lying in picturesque valleys… It seemed people there are very cheerful and sympathetic. When they discovered that I don’t speak German, they easily started to use English, despite I had been told they don’t like to do it in general.
If I knew what kind of job I could find there exactly, I would move to Munich, the capital of Bavaria. Nowadays it’s my favorite city in the whole world. I like its lively and energetic atmosphere, ginger roofs of the old historical centre and a clear sense of security. What is more, Munich has well-organized and comfortable system of public transport, consisting of trains, buses and metro lines. It even has a train station at the airport, so you can easily reach the centre of the city in around 40 minutes. Perhaps I would choose Nurnberg as a place to live too... Just because of its medieval appearance, so mysterious and dramatic that I can’t help admiring. From time to time I imagine myself standing at beautiful balcony, holding a cup of coffee and watching red sunset behind those ginger roofs. Sweet, perfect dreams… Will they come true?
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Somebody extraordinary
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When I came to Germany for the first time, I visited beautiful palace Nymphenburg, one of the domains of well-known Bavarian dynasty Wittelsbach. The palace had been founded in 1664 and for the next centuries was used as a summer royal residence in Munich. Now it’s museum attracting a lot of attention as the largest royal castle in Europe. Thousands of tourists from all over the world come to see it every year, but I discovered that one part of the museum is private.
Franz Bonaventura Adalbert lives there. He is 84 years old and he is Duke of Bavaria, present Head of the House of Wittelsbach, leading its history from XII century. His grandfather was the last real sovereign of Bavaria. The dynasty where he came from had been controlling a half of Europe and have never been cut. Names of all those kings and queens, princes and duchesses still live in the streets, buildings and parks… But Herr Adalbert himself got through Nazi regime, a concentration camp, where he was put at the age of 11, and, eventually, through global changes in the whole world.
His titles don’t have legal significance any more, but I guess he still is an unique and respectable person. I believe, if I had an opportunity to speak with him, I would make an interview of whole my life. As a journalist I have a billion of questions about his life and experience. I wonder how is it to be born with such a background? What does the world look like from his point of view? What can Franz Adalbert say as a spectator of different epochs? Well, if I could invite somebody extraordinary to dinner, I would chose him.
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Kiddie dreams about future profession
Could somebody correct my mistakes in this text? I will be grateful!
When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. As I remember now it was one of my first intentions in the sphere of professions. I very loved animals and actually I do now, but at that time taking care of animals seemed to me the prettiest thing in the world. I was reading books about wild life during all the childhood, growing up with the stories of Ernest Thompson Seton and Jack London, watching documentaries about savanna’s lions or Australian crocodiles. That’s why I started to dream of a zooilogist job eventually. I had a romantic desire to discover new species, to explore nature all over the earth and to live side by side with amazing creatures. But an elementary chemic course at school showed up the fact me and chemistry won’t get along. So, at that point my naive kiddie dreams crushed. If ten-years-old-me looked at my nowadays-personality, she would surprise by six years’ experience in the field of journalism. Despite I had been in love with writing since I had learnt how to hold a pen and how to differ one letter from another. As well as I established myself as a zoo specialist, I imagined myself as a writer and played with this idea a lot. But I didn’t ever think about career in journalism. It found me itself and now it’s probably the best thing I can do.
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The most important person in my life
Could somebody correct my mistakes in this text? I will be grateful!
Answering the question “Who is the most important person in your life”? I am risky to be trivial: it’s me myself. It sounds selfishly and even vainly, right?
But if to look at the point more intently, ask yourself, who have always been staying with you after the doors have been closed and all the voices have been carried away. There is only your personality finally.
Close, emotional relationships, faithful friends and loyal relatives are basically important for our mental health, and it’s a luck and an honor to have them. But so many people have been tending to spend all their lives trying to be comfortable for others, doing something their beloved people want them to do.
It’s so pleasantly to set somebody into the centre of your soul, especially if it’s a person you definitely adore. It’s so simply to get lost, to disappear in a feeling of love or whatever you take as a love. But we have only one life, only one body and a heart that can easily be broken. And in my opinion, the main thing is to learn how to respect yourself firstly, how to save your identity for a happy and harmonious future, where other important and needful people also would be.
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Translation time
Hi there!
This is the next part of my translation studies. I continue doing exercises and learning how to translate sentences from Russian to English. Could anybody check it out and say, if it's all correct there?
1. Jane nodded miserably.
2. Liz angrily pinched her hand.
3. Usually they worked in this room.
4. This one James’ speech curiously brought them together.
5. Momentarily she seemed to be ready to hit him, but she stopped.
6. He stood up indignantly.
7. He warned emphatically, there is no way for mess / one can’t make any mess.
8. Then he, incredibly, agreed.
9. He thought through all the possibilities inwardly.
10. Usually a few people only knew about such an incidents.
11. Perry appeared periodically.
12. He winked at me furtively.
13. He spoke characteristically straight.
14. Hugh decided that it would be decently to tell Ann tomorrow, he is leaving on Tuesday.
15. Suddenly it crossed his mind, paradoxically, but perhaps Randall is jealous of him.
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My translation attempts
Hi there!
I'm trying to translate several simple sentences from Russian to English. Could anybody check it out and say, if it's all correct there?
1. Don't be absurd.
2. Are you serious?
3. All those things were perplexing for her.
4. Frank was evasive, when he was speaking about this business.
5. He looked like he’d been totally clear about her rudeness, and it irritated her.
6. She was full of hope to meet him once.
7. His daughter was insisting that we didn’t tell father about it.
8. She was absolutely unbelieving.
9. Probably he spoke his mind reservedly because he wasn’t clear about his thoughts himself.
10. He was very rude to her.
11. Don’t be so literal.
12. He was so anxious about his health, and his doctor visited him two times a week.
13. I am not quite clear about the rest of the story.
14. Colleges were friendly and sympathetic toward him.
15. I thought I’d been totally clear in the explanation.
16. Go and pack your stuff. But be in a hurry! We don’t have enough time.
17. Why are you so nice with me?
18. She bought a hot dog and a cup of coffee, and the way how these things looked was reassuring.
19. “You are in hysterics”, – Gwen’s voice was cold.
20. Could you be more defining?
21. Carbon wagons were too slow-moving.
22. She was firming that they did it immediately.
23. Wouldn’t it be more comfortable for you, if I turn lights on?
24. Well, the supper is not ready, isn’t it? We are just starving.
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Need help with some formal subject's constractions
Hi there!
I'm trying to translate several simple sentences from Russian to English. Could anybody check it out and say, if it's all correct there?
1. Mountains are rather cool.
2. There looked like his marriage will be happy.
3. I think, it is around 8 o’clock.
4. It was almost impossible to obtain nails.
5. One has one’s own problems.
6. “But one cannot live on 3 thousands per year!” – she exclaimed.
7. One must accept the world as it is.
8. I needed a minute to make up my mind.
9. You definitely cannot argue with a man which fist is like a steel hammer.
10. It’s no any sense to discuss it / It's no any good discussing this.
11. She’s got married, they say.
12. Try to go to this factory. They want workers there.
13. It is pleasant to take a walk in the early morning.
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The woman I'd like to be similar to
Do you know any person who impresses you so much, that you want to be similar to them? Or have you ever read about such person, have you found them in ancient or modern culture? I realized that I am greatly admired by one imagine woman. Her name is Vanessa Ives and she is a character of TV show Penny Dreadful.
Vanessa is called the most mysterious woman of Victorian London. She is unhappy in love, but full of dignity, elegant and gorgeous. What is more important, she is a person of exceptionally high level of inwardness, showing us how to be strong and true no matter what is happening in the world. Vanessa is forced to fight against an evil creatures, which are craving to possess her. But in fact it is the story about an internal demons of human’s soul. In the final Vanessa stopped to combat them and accepted herself with all of her good or bad wishes. And she decided to leave this world after she had realized that sometimes the best thing we can do is to go away.
I love Vanessa for her bravery and self-respect. In the show she was played by amazing Eva Green, and since that time Eva has been my favorite actress.
2017年11月17日
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The greatest journey in my life
Last summer I traveled abroad for the first time.
My friend, who had moved to Germany with her husband a couple of years ago, invited me to their present city Munchen. When my journey started I was so excited like it would be trip to Mars, not to place inhabited by humans. My friend met me in the airport and then we got S-Bahn train and arrived to the city. When I stepped on Munchen’s streets I was fascinated by almost everything. I liked roses and pretty houses overgrown by green ivy, glass cases and bikes and especially old romantic buildings in the centre. We visited Nymphenburg Palace, Deutsches Museum, Old Pinakothek and some other amazing places. Moreover we had one day trips to Salzburg and to one country place near the Bavarian Alps.
It was the greatest vacation in my life, allowed me to take a look at unknown culture and to feel a breath of history. I had never heard a real German language alive so closely and frequently, so I realized this language is charming despite the fact that I understood completely nothing.
Nowadays I am planning to return to this beautiful land and to have a new portion of adventures next year.
2017年11月14日
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