pompous ['pOmpqs], audience ['O:dIqns], undulate ['AndjVleIt]
Mrs. Lippett, behind the scenes, did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with which she faced an audience of Trustees and lady visitors. Jerusha gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn, beyond the tall iron paling that marked the confines of the asylum, down undulating ridges sprinkled with country estates, to the spires of the village rising from the midst of bare trees.
The day was ended (день закончился) — quite successfully, so far as she knew (вполне успешно, насколько ей было известно). The Trustees and the visiting committee had made their rounds (попечители и инспекционная комиссия совершили обход; round — шар; обход), and read their reports (прочитали доклады), and drunk their tea (выпили чай), and now were hurrying home to their own cheerful firesides (а теперь спешили домой, к своим /собственным/ веселым домашним очагам), to forget their bothersome little charges for another month (чтобы позабыть о своих докучливых маленьких питомцах на целый месяц; little — маленький, небольшой; несущественный, неважный; charge — нагрузка; лицо, состоящее на попечении, подопечный). Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity (Джеруша подалась вперед, наблюдая с любопытством) — and a touch of wistfulness (и с некоторой тоской; touch — прикосновение; чуточка, примесь) — the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates (за вереницей карет и автомобилей, которые выкатывались за ворота приюта; stream — речка, ручеек; вереница, поток).
trustee [trA'sti:], committee [kq'mItI], curiosity ["kjV(q)rI'OsItI]
The day was ended — quite successfully, so far as she knew. The Trustees and the visiting committee had made their rounds, and read their reports, and drunk their tea, and now were hurrying home to their own cheerful firesides, to forget their bothersome little charges for another month. Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity — and a touch of wistfulness — the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out of the asylum gates.
In imagination she followed first one equipage (в своем воображении она последовала сперва за одним экипажем), then another (потом за другим), to the big houses dotted along the hillside (к большим домам, что были разбросаны по холму; to dot — ставить точки; усеивать, испещрять). She pictured herself in a fur coat (она представила себя в шубе;
