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Domdom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Could you explain it?
You were a band who had [a bit of a DIY ethos,] with gigs at the Chateau (a music, exhibition and party space in a crumbling Glasgow tenement). You didn’t exactly see Erasure, who were meant to be headlining Princes Street Gardens that night, doing a flat party instead, did you?
I think [that’s part of the thing] when you first start out as a band. If we’d been touring for 12 months leading up to that gig, we’d probably have been exhausted. But we were feeling fresh, and literally hadn’t done more than 50 or 60 gigs [by that point.]
I don't understand the meaning in [ ].
Can you explain what they mean?
I think [that’s part of the thing] when you first start out as a band. If we’d been touring for 12 months leading up to that gig, we’d probably have been exhausted. But we were feeling fresh, and literally hadn’t done more than 50 or 60 gigs [by that point.]
I don't understand the meaning in [ ].
Can you explain what they mean?
Top answer
a bit of a DIY ethos = an attitude of wanting to do things themselves part of the thing = part of the usual way that things happen; something that might be expected (at that stage of a band's career) by that point = up until that point in time
- a bit of a DIY ethos = an attitude of wanting to do things themselves part of the thing = part of the usual way that things happen; something that might be expected (at that stage of a band's career) by that point = up until that point in time
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a bit of a DIY ethos = an attitude of wanting to do things themselves
part of the thing = part of the usual way that things happen; something that might be expected (at that stage of a band's career)
by that point = up until that point in time
part of the thing = part of the usual way that things happen; something that might be expected (at that stage of a band's career)
by that point = up until that point in time
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"You were a band with gigs at the Chateau."
I made another sentences from it to change to the same sentences as the original sentence. I need to know if I understand that original sentence.
Here is my sentence:
1. You were a band playing gigs at Chateau.
2. You were playing gigs at Chateau. (used as the past continuous)
3. You had a plan to play gigs at Chateau.
4. Y
I made another sentences from it to change to the same sentences as the original sentence. I need to know if I understand that original sentence.
Here is my sentence:
1. You were a band playing gigs at Chateau.
2. You were playing gigs at Chateau. (used as the past continuous)
3. You had a plan to play gigs at Chateau.
4. Y
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"You were a band ... with gigs at the Chateau" = You were a band who played / used to play gigs at the Chateau.
"You didn’t exactly see Erasure ... doing a flat party instead, did you?" is a rhetorical question pointing out that this didn't happen, and suggesting that it was unlikely to have happened. "see" is not literal (or is only weakly literal). "exactly" adds a kind of emphasis. "Yo
"You didn’t exactly see Erasure ... doing a flat party instead, did you?" is a rhetorical question pointing out that this didn't happen, and suggesting that it was unlikely to have happened. "see" is not literal (or is only weakly literal). "exactly" adds a kind of emphasis. "Yo
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