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Vocabulary
Antonia: turn a blind eye
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00 Help me, please, to play a little bit with the idiom: turn a blind eye in the underlined sentence. Can you also tell me if the phrase in blue is clear or if I should change anything. Is 01 i 00 surprisingly accused 02 i 00 ok? Thank you 02 br
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00 The other day, Florian's wife told Florijan that something is going on between them, that he is not himself anymore. That there is no more even the most benign tenderness between them, nor those little whisperings in the night while the children are asleep. 01 font 00 Surprisingly accused 02 font 00 , Florijan just shook his head, stamped his foot and sulkily stared through the window. Has his wife forgotten the rules of the game? Is it so difficult to pretend that everything, and I mean really everything, is okay? Well, a while ago they went on a trip like old friends do and he promised to take her again. Why is she bothered now 01 font 00 by a couple of fake scenes/situations and a handful of coldness 02 font 00 . I guess that marriage, that sacred military service which is being served with no end in sight, deserves a little bit of 01 u 00 turning a 00 blind eye, or both eyes and the third eye. 02 u 02 br
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00 Help me, please, to play a little bit with the idiom: turn a blind eye in the underlined sentence. Can you also tell me if the phrase in blue is clear or if I should change anything. Is 01 i 00 surprisingly accused 02 i 00 ok? Thank you 02 br
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00 The other day, Florian's wife told Florijan that something is going on between them, that he is not himself anymore. That there is no more even the most benign tenderness between them, nor those little whisperings in the night while the children are asleep. 01 font 00 Surprisingly accused 02 font 00 , Florijan just shook his head, stamped his foot and sulkily stared through the window. Has his wife forgotten the rules of the game? Is it so difficult to pretend that everything, and I mean really everything, is okay? Well, a while ago they went on a trip like old friends do and he promised to take her again. Why is she bothered now 01 font 00 by a couple of fake scenes/situations and a handful of coldness 02 font 00 . I guess that marriage, that sacred military service which is being served with no end in sight, deserves a little bit of 01 u 00 turning a 00 blind eye, or both eyes and the third eye. 02 u 02 br
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0 Dear sir, 02 br 02 br 00 It is my opinion that you may not say «something is going on between them». It means a love affair. You may say «something is the matter between them», perhaps.
- 0 Dear sir, 02 br 02 br 00 It is my opinion that you may not say «something is going on between them».
- It means a love affair.
- You may say «something is the matter between them», perhaps.
- 02 br 02 br 00 I do not think «by a couple of fake scenes/situations» or «a handful of coldness» are correct.
- But we must know to what they refer, before it is possible to proffer an alternative.
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0 Dear sir, 02 br
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00 It is my opinion that you may not say «something is going on between them». It means a love affair. You may say «something is the matter between them», perhaps. 02 br
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00 For «Surprisingly accused», you may say «Taken by surprise by the accusation». 02 br
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00 I do not think «by a couple of fake scenes/situations
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00 It is my opinion that you may not say «something is going on between them». It means a love affair. You may say «something is the matter between them», perhaps. 02 br
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00 For «Surprisingly accused», you may say «Taken by surprise by the accusation». 02 br
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00 I do not think «by a couple of fake scenes/situations
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0 Thank you Glodmund, 02 br
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01 i 00 fake scenes 02 i 00 refer to the situations when wife senses that something in the behaviour of her husband is awkard (he is having a love affair with another woman), and 01 i 00 coldness 02 i 00 refers to him being cold to his wife because he has a mistress. The text is ironic, and that's why the author says
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01 i 00 fake scenes 02 i 00 refer to the situations when wife senses that something in the behaviour of her husband is awkard (he is having a love affair with another woman), and 01 i 00 coldness 02 i 00 refers to him being cold to his wife because he has a mistress. The text is ironic, and that's why the author says
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