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1·I realized then how much work Ault would be for me.

我意识到，在奥尔特我有多少功课要做。

2·It became December. (I have been at Ault seventy-eight days.)

十二月了，我来奥尔特已经78天了。

3·In the common room, Dede said, Surprise holiday is an Ault tradition.

休息室里，黛德说：“惊喜假日是奥尔特的一个传统。”

4·I think, looking back, that this was the single best thing about Ault, the sense of possibility.

如果回头来看，我想这是奥尔特最了不起的一点：让你感到还有可能。

5·The only Henry at Ault was Henry Thorpe, who I knew was currently going out with a prissy-seeming sophomore named Molly.

在奥尔特，“亨利”只指亨利·骚伯，而我知道，他现在和一个二年级的、看起来循规蹈矩、叫茉莉的女生交往。

6·I had forgotten myself, and I had forgotten Ault, at least the real, three-dimensional version in which I, too, was a presence.

之前，我忘记了自己，忘记了奥尔特，至少忘记了那个真实的，三维的，我存在于其间的奥尔特。

7·It was not clear to me how I’d arrived at this juncture gradewise, because before entering Ault, I’d never received lower than a B plus in any class.

我不明白自己在成绩上怎么沦落到如此田地，进奥尔特之前，任何功课我的分数都不低于B+。

8·I have been at Ault for a month. I talked to myself as I imagined my mother would talk to me if she actually thought boarding school was a good idea: You’re doing great.

我对自己说“你做得很棒”，如果妈妈认为寄宿学校是好地方，她是一定会这样对我说的，“我为你骄傲，莉”。

9·At Ault, I doubted I would ever need a second blue book because even my handwriting had changed-once my letters had been bubbly and messy, and now they were thin and small.

在奥尔特，我怀疑自己不会再需要第二本蓝皮本了，因为连我笔迹都改变了——我的字体曾经凌乱而有生气，现在却是又细又小。

10·All of this was still in the beginning of the year, the beginning of my time at Ault, when I was exhausted all the time by both my vigilance and my wish to be inconspicuous.

所有这一切还只是学年的开始，我的奥尔特岁月的开始，为了防备别人和不被人注意，我耗尽了所有的时间。