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Mbm2000 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Bowing to

Hi,
What does Bowing to mean here?
Bowing to the objections of the family of his fiancee, he instead settled in Paris.

Thanks.
  

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mbm2000 What does Bowing to mean here? Bowing to the objections of the family of his fiancee, he instead settled in Paris. Yielding.

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  • mbm2000 What does Bowing to mean here?
  • Bowing to the objections of the family of his fiancee, he instead settled in Paris.
  • Yielding.
  • Giving in to.
  • You can bow to someone's wishes , as well as to their objections .
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mbm2000What does Bowing to mean here?
Bowing to the objections of the family of his fiancee, he instead settled in Paris.
Yielding.
Giving in to.

You can bow to someone's wishes, as well as to their objections.

I know you'd rather stay home, but I really wish you'd play tennis with me this afternoon. (repl
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As I found out the simple form must be this one:
Despite the disapproval of his fiancee's family, he settled in Paris.

Am I right?
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mbm2000As I found out the simple form must be this one:
I really have no idea what this means.

Both sentences are correct.

Of course, since you use "instead" in your original post, we have to assume that prior context explains "instead of what?"

That doesn't make the sentence incorrect, in my opinion.

- A.
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I meant "according to what I understood"
Thanks again.
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mbm2000I meant "according to what I understood"
But what do you mean by "the simple form"? And what do you mean by "must"?

Edit. By the way, the two sentences are in a sense opposite in meaning. In the second one he does not bow.
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the simple form:the easier form of this sentence (maybe for me)
must:here isn't used for obligation; seems to be.
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He wanted to settle in New York. His fiancee's family wanted him to settle in Paris.

Despite their wishes, he settled in New York. (He went against their wishes.)

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He bowed to their wishes and settled in Paris. (He went with their wishes. He accepted them.)

Edit. I suppose my
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Is this a formal phrase or is it a informal, colloquial idiom?I want to know because we surely have to avoid usages of slang/informal expressions in TOEFL while we still have to quiet understand them in that the native speakers use them EVERY SINGEL DAY!
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chivalryIs this a formal phrase or is it a informal
If you're asking about "to bow to someone's wish/request," I'd say it's register neutral. It may be a bit dated, but it's clearly not slang. I'd say it's definitely suitable for formal use, but an uneducated person probably would not use it. An educated person might use it occasionally, but the average educ
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