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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
Antonia: nine questions
Hello,
Can you please help me with the following questions:
What does it mean:
1. He walked a tight circle
2. She made a spot check on me around 2 o'clock (She checked whether I was there around 2 o'clock?)
3. I'm a religious man. That's what caught me up with Sara.
4. You like to keep up with your girls (to be updated, to be informed about?)
5. He sat back, letting the sun hit him square on the chest. (directly?)
6. That was how she had met Greg M., her last boyfriend of any consequence.
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7. to throw the games in honour of his masculinity (stop the game, or admit that sb else won)
8. She rolled her head side to side, revering in the aftermath.(does revering comes from the revere=to honour, respect or from reverie=daydreaming?) (what does the blue expression mean?)
9. she felt her body letting go, her mind coming back into focus (how do you understand this sentence?)
Can you please help me with the following questions:
What does it mean:
1. He walked a tight circle
2. She made a spot check on me around 2 o'clock (She checked whether I was there around 2 o'clock?)
3. I'm a religious man. That's what caught me up with Sara.
4. You like to keep up with your girls (to be updated, to be informed about?)
5. He sat back, letting the sun hit him square on the chest. (directly?)
6. That was how she had met Greg M., her last boyfriend of any consequence.
[L]
7. to throw the games in honour of his masculinity (stop the game, or admit that sb else won)
8. She rolled her head side to side, revering in the aftermath.(does revering comes from the revere=to honour, respect or from reverie=daydreaming?) (what does the blue expression mean?)
9. she felt her body letting go, her mind coming back into focus (how do you understand this sentence?)
Top answer
1-- more context would be nice, but I presume he walked around in a small circle. 2-- a spot check is a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning. 3-- Hmm.
- 1-- more context would be nice, but I presume he walked around in a small circle.
- 2-- a spot check is a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning.
- 3-- Hmm.
- Perhaps that's why Sara was disappointed/offended/upset with me .
- 4-- Yes.
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1-- more context would be nice, but I presume he walked around in a small circle.
2-- a spot check is a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning.
3-- Hmm. Perhaps that's why Sara was disappointed/offended/upset with me.
4-- Yes.
5-- Yes.
6-- last significant/important/serious boyfriend
7-- to lose intentional
2-- a spot check is a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning.
3-- Hmm. Perhaps that's why Sara was disappointed/offended/upset with me.
4-- Yes.
5-- Yes.
6-- last significant/important/serious boyfriend
7-- to lose intentional
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Hello Mister Micawber,
Your answers fit the context. I'm not sure for the number 3: This is said by the rapist to the victim's husband to provoke him.(he's (the rapist) been tried for the rape and served his time, and now the husband, who didn't know that his wife had been raped, comes to visit him in his house).
As of 8, it is not revelling, but revering. Does it m
Your answers fit the context. I'm not sure for the number 3: This is said by the rapist to the victim's husband to provoke him.(he's (the rapist) been tried for the rape and served his time, and now the husband, who didn't know that his wife had been raped, comes to visit him in his house).
As of 8, it is not revelling, but revering. Does it m
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3-- OK; my second try is that to catch one up with someone means to attract one to someone; notice/preoccupy with someone.
8-- Antonia, it makes no sense at all to me unless it is a misprint for revelling: that's what one does after ***: revel in the postcoital ecstasy (she thinks it's her boyfriend, whom she loves, right?).
8-- Antonia, it makes no sense at all to me unless it is a misprint for revelling: that's what one does after ***: revel in the postcoital ecstasy (she thinks it's her boyfriend, whom she loves, right?).
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Could no.8 be based on reverie?--
Etymology: French rêverie, from Middle French, delirium, from resver, rever to wander, be delirious
EDIT: (oops, I see Antonia has already wondered about this possibility. Anyhow, that would be my guess, although I'm not convinced it's a word.)
Etymology: French rêverie, from Middle French, delirium, from resver, rever to wander, be delirious
EDIT: (oops, I see Antonia has already wondered about this possibility. Anyhow, that would be my guess, although I'm not convinced it's a word.)
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I have some ideas about question 8 In the afternoon of the desert: it means we shared to each other a secret, she had been in diet for two days, she didn't eat anything because she was very resent At that day ,we were nine or ten. I was very familiar in Dalat but she was a strange. I took her to a small restaurant to eat chinese soup. More than ten years after, we met each other in a special
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Couldn't 8 be revelling?
edit: sorry, MM, I hadn't read all of your post
edit: sorry, MM, I hadn't read all of your post
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Well, it does seem there is no modern verbal version of the Middle French rever: to be wandering deliriously.
Too bad...we could use such a word. It might explain a lot of things.
Too bad...we could use such a word. It might explain a lot of things.
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Hello everybody,
If it is an expression that you, Mr Micawber, and others, have heard a lots of times before, then OK, because it is possible that it's a mistake in the text. I've come across some other mistakes in the book, such as wrong names of the characters, wrong spelling of the names and other words. The book has 400 pages, no wonder there are some mistakes.
But, can you p
If it is an expression that you, Mr Micawber, and others, have heard a lots of times before, then OK, because it is possible that it's a mistake in the text. I've come across some other mistakes in the book, such as wrong names of the characters, wrong spelling of the names and other words. The book has 400 pages, no wonder there are some mistakes.
But, can you p
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I don't know such a verb, and I could not find one when we were discussing this, Antonia. Maybe Phuong can come up with one from wherever he is abiding.
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