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Dareka Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Added on to their home
I have little idea about what "added on to their home" means in the following.
My guess is something along the line that they had contributed to their home financially. But who are "they"? Her children or tapestries?
Thanks in advance.
Clinton, one of the world's most powerful women, told the story of a woman she once met at a craft market in Nepal. The secretary said the woman had not been allowed to leave her home after her marriage, until her husband was injured and could no longer earn a living. With the family in a dire situation, the woman had to ask her husband and mother-in-law for permission to sell the tapestries and crafts she could produce.
"As a result of her talent and her skill, she now employed two other weavers, and she now is sending her children to school, and they had added on to their home. And I said, 'So what do your husband and your mother-in-law think now?' She said, 'They think it's good.'"
My guess is something along the line that they had contributed to their home financially. But who are "they"? Her children or tapestries?
Thanks in advance.
Clinton, one of the world's most powerful women, told the story of a woman she once met at a craft market in Nepal. The secretary said the woman had not been allowed to leave her home after her marriage, until her husband was injured and could no longer earn a living. With the family in a dire situation, the woman had to ask her husband and mother-in-law for permission to sell the tapestries and crafts she could produce.
"As a result of her talent and her skill, she now employed two other weavers, and she now is sending her children to school, and they had added on to their home. And I said, 'So what do your husband and your mother-in-law think now?' She said, 'They think it's good.'"
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They had added on to their home - they built an extension (made the home bigger). Therefore they would be the husband, Wife and possibly the mother in Law.
- They had added on to their home - they built an extension (made the home bigger).
- Therefore they would be the husband, Wife and possibly the mother in Law.
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They had added on to their home - they built an extension (made the home bigger). Therefore they would be the husband, Wife and possibly the mother in Law.
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