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Rotter Posted 19 years ago
In Transylvania in central Romania a cheerful woman with a pink headscarf stands outside her house behind a trestle table. On it she has old-fashioned scales, a couple of plastic baskets of pears and a small crate of apples.
She and her husband are teachers, but their large orchard produces far more than they could possibly eat so she sells to passers-by and neighbours.
In the shadow of one of the castles that claims to be Dracula's own, people here avoided the fangs of Nicolae Ceausescu during the communist era.
While he sucked the life out of many villages and wrecked the country's economy, somehow people here survived unscathed and made a good living selling apples.
But all over Romania it is obvious, wherever you go, that small-scale agriculture is the lifeblood of this country, whether for pocket money, home consumption or survival.
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The fourth sentence of the above is difficult to understand.
What is Dracula's castle?
Fangs are big animal teeth.
So I can understand the meaning of the words ...people here avoided the fangs of Nicolae Ceausescu during the communist era.
What is Dracula's castle?
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Dracula's castle
In Transylvania in central Romania a cheerful woman with a pink headscarf stands outside her house behind a trestle table. On it she has old-fashioned scales, a couple of plastic baskets of pears and a small crate of apples.
She and her husband are teachers, but their large orchard produces far more than they could possibly eat so she sells to passers-by and neighbours.
In the shadow of one of the castles that claims to be Dracula's own, people here avoided the fangs of Nicolae Ceausescu during the communist era.
While he sucked the life out of many villages and wrecked the country's economy, somehow people here survived unscathed and made a good living selling apples.
But all over Romania it is obvious, wherever you go, that small-scale agriculture is the lifeblood of this country, whether for pocket money, home consumption or survival.
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The fourth sentence of the above is difficult to understand.
What is Dracula's castle?
Fangs are big animal teeth.
So I can understand the meaning of the words ...people here avoided the fangs of Nicolae Ceausescu during the communist era.
What is Dracula's castle?
Top answer
Hi, 'Dracula's castle' is a castle that some people claim once belonged to Dracula. To understand all this, you need to know who Dracula was. Do you know this?
- Hi, 'Dracula's castle' is a castle that some people claim once belonged to Dracula.
- To understand all this, you need to know who Dracula was.
- Do you know this?
- He was a fictitious vampire, suposedly based on a real, historical Romanian ruler called 'Vlad the Impaler'.
- A vampire is a fictitious creature that uses its teeth (fangs) to bite your neck and suck your blood.
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Hi,
'Dracula's castle' is a castle that some people claim once belonged to Dracula.
To understand all this, you need to know who Dracula was. Do you know this? He was a fictitious vampire, suposedly based on a real, historical Romanian ruler called 'Vlad the Impaler'. A vampire is a fictitious creature that uses its teeth (fangs) to bite your neck and suck your blood.
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'Dracula's castle' is a castle that some people claim once belonged to Dracula.
To understand all this, you need to know who Dracula was. Do you know this? He was a fictitious vampire, suposedly based on a real, historical Romanian ruler called 'Vlad the Impaler'. A vampire is a fictitious creature that uses its teeth (fangs) to bite your neck and suck your blood.
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