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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Does "at once childlike and profoundly stubborn" mean "immediately becoming childlike and profoundly stubborn"?
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In his lecture at Einstein's memorial, nuclear physicist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer summarized his impression of him as a person: "He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness ... There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn."[89]
In his lecture at Einstein's memorial, nuclear physicist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer summarized his impression of him as a person: "He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness ... There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn."[89]
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No, in this sentence at once means at the same time.
- No, in this sentence at once means at the same time.
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