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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
Antonia: to feel like an echo
Hello,
Can you please help me with the following?
What does it mean:
1 She felt like an echo.
2. She pressed the scroll on the caller ID unit. (What does ID stand for?) (answering amchine)
3 Which part of the boat is throttle?
4 Her stomach dropped when she heard his name. (Does it mean turned upside down?)
Thanks
Can you please help me with the following?
What does it mean:
1 She felt like an echo.
2. She pressed the scroll on the caller ID unit. (What does ID stand for?) (answering amchine)
3 Which part of the boat is throttle?
4 Her stomach dropped when she heard his name. (Does it mean turned upside down?)
Thanks
Top answer
1. No idea without context. Someone is being a bit 'poetic' here.
- 1.
- No idea without context.
- Someone is being a bit 'poetic' here.
- 2.
- caller ID - a system to display the identity of people who have phoned you, or their numbers at least.
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1. No idea without context. Someone is being a bit 'poetic' here.
2. caller ID - a system to display the identity of people who have phoned you, or their numbers at least.
3. the accelerator
4. It is more a feeling of dread (turned upside down could be that she was in love with him!)
2. caller ID - a system to display the identity of people who have phoned you, or their numbers at least.
3. the accelerator
4. It is more a feeling of dread (turned upside down could be that she was in love with him!)
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Nona The Brit(You're just not very 'poetic', huh, Nona?)
1. No idea without context. Someone is being a bit 'poetic' here.
How about?--
An echo is a reverberation of a sound, so 'she' feels like she has no voice of her own; her words are just reverberations of someone else's talk.
A bit more on the 'throttle'--
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He feels like he has no voice of his own. His words are just reverberations of someone else's post.
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Echo:
One who imitates another, as in opinions, speech, or dress.
(source: dictionary.com)
One who imitates another, as in opinions, speech, or dress.
(source: dictionary.com)
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First of all, thank you all for your replies.
Ok, here's the context:
Mother is telling her adult daughter that she had an affair. This is rather shocking experience for her daughter because she always felt that her parent's marriage was the embodiment of the ultimate idea of marriage and love.
Her mother tells her that she had affair. and then comes the sentence:
Ok, here's the context:
Mother is telling her adult daughter that she had an affair. This is rather shocking experience for her daughter because she always felt that her parent's marriage was the embodiment of the ultimate idea of marriage and love.
Her mother tells her that she had affair. and then comes the sentence:
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I wonder whether there's also an idea of "hollowness" at the bottom of it, as well.
The shock and disillusion make her feel suddenly hollow, like the shell of a building; when she speaks, her voice sounds like an echo in an empty building.
Or perhaps the shock brings the blood to her head: sometimes when that happens, your own voice sounds distance and echoey.
But maybe
The shock and disillusion make her feel suddenly hollow, like the shell of a building; when she speaks, her voice sounds like an echo in an empty building.
Or perhaps the shock brings the blood to her head: sometimes when that happens, your own voice sounds distance and echoey.
But maybe
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No, I think you are closer to the real meaning Mr Pedantic. Her mother didn't say exactly "I cheated on daddy" ([
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AnonymousI think it has to do with feeling empty, isn't echo connected in some way to hollow and empty spaces?Yes, quite often. The writer seems to have compressed two metaphors into one.
See you,
MrP
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