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Eipjoo Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Cookies or Sandwiches?
In the example:
what does the word, these, indicate?
(Cookies harry bought or Ron’s four sandwiches.)
He had never had any money for candy with the Dursleys, and now that he had pockets rattling with gold and silver he was ready to buy as many Mars Bars as he could carry -- but the woman didn't have Mars Bars. What she did have were Bettie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs. Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. Not wanting to miss anything, he got some of everything and paid the woman eleven silver Sickles and seven bronze Knuts.
Ron stared as Harry brought it all back in to the compartment and tipped it onto an empty seat.
"Hungry, are you?"
"Starving," said Harry, taking a large bite out of a pumpkin pasty.
Ron had taken out a lumpy package and unwrapped it. There were four sandwiches inside. He pulled one of them apart and said, "She always forgets I don't like corned beef."
"Swap you for one of these," said Harry, holding up a pasty. "Go on --"
what does the word, these, indicate?
(Cookies harry bought or Ron’s four sandwiches.)
He had never had any money for candy with the Dursleys, and now that he had pockets rattling with gold and silver he was ready to buy as many Mars Bars as he could carry -- but the woman didn't have Mars Bars. What she did have were Bettie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs. Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life. Not wanting to miss anything, he got some of everything and paid the woman eleven silver Sickles and seven bronze Knuts.
Ron stared as Harry brought it all back in to the compartment and tipped it onto an empty seat.
"Hungry, are you?"
"Starving," said Harry, taking a large bite out of a pumpkin pasty.
Ron had taken out a lumpy package and unwrapped it. There were four sandwiches inside. He pulled one of them apart and said, "She always forgets I don't like corned beef."
"Swap you for one of these," said Harry, holding up a pasty. "Go on --"
Top answer
one of these pasties'.
- one of these pasties'.
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Longman dictionary says swap has the construction of ‘swap sb sth for sth’: then the sentence could be replaced as ‘Swap you my pasty for one of your sandwiches,’ I guess. Is this wrong?
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You're nearly right.
'Swap you one of my pasties for one of your sandwiches.'
Rover
'Swap you one of my pasties for one of your sandwiches.'
Rover
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By the way, I''m not sure where the "cookies" in the title of this thread came from. In England, pasties (not pastries) are a sort of meat and/or potato pie, like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty
(Watch out if you try to google it -- pasties are also stickers that nearly-nude dancers wear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty
(Watch out if you try to google it -- pasties are also stickers that nearly-nude dancers wear
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khoffI believe that in this case the word rhymes with "tasty" (long a) and in the British food it rhymes with "nasty" short a), but I'm not sure.The food called pasty, does not rhyme with the word tasty. The pas part rhymes with the word gas and the ty part rhymes with the word tea. You can hear it pronounced here
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AnonymousThe food called pasty, does not rhyme with the word tasty.I never said it did. I said, "pasties are also stickers that nearly-nude dancers wear to cover up their nipples. I believe that in this case the word rhymes with "tasty" (long a) and in the British food it rhymes with "nasty" short a)"
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khoffin the British food it rhymes with "nasty" short a)"The British food has an /æ/ sound, and 'nasty' an /??/ sound.
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Hmm. I'm afraid I don't know the phonetic signs, but it's not surprising if I was wrong, since I was thinking of the American pronunciations!
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