AtD translation: For something to actually . . . light up

[Mike Jing]

You are absolutely right, of course. I only just figured it out. Thanks.


On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 3:13 AM Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com>
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> No one would believe her if … she enthused about subject matter of her
> classes.
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> “Light up” is almost certainly what you probably suspect: getting “turned
> on” by a class.
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> Which she is saying is not the usual thing for students, especially girls.
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> Many years later in my own college days, people were still talking about
> girls going to college to get their “Mrs” degree.
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> Mike Jing wrote:
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> P499.3-7   Cyprian, it’s nothing I expected. We are sent here, most of us,
> aren’t we really, to stay out of the way, not be a bother—the books, the
> tutoring, the learning, it’s all incidental.  For something to actually . .
> . light up, it’s . . . no one would believe me, if I . . . oh, one or two
> boys in Hardy’s classes, but certainly no one back at Chunxton Crescent.
>
> What does "light up" mean here exactly? And what was left unsaid after
> "it's . . ." and "if I . . . "?
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