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Madhulk Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
First-hand account...
Chloe: Dr. Hamilton had a copy of this book in his barn.
Clark: The Nicodemus Diary.
Chloe: It's a first-hand account (The first piece of information?)of Smallville's first mystery.
In 1871, the whole settlement went postal before they even had a post office.(Is she just playing with the words?)
Pete: Nice to know Smallville was still whacked before the meteors got here.
Chloe: Yeah. In the diary, they talked about a flower. The settlers called it Nicodemus.
Said it liberated repressed feelings, sent them into rages, then fever, and final... Well...
Clark: All right, well, where can we find this flower?
Chloe: Well, see that’s the glitch. After the massacre (figuratively meant?), the cavalry torched the whole settlement.
They wanted to make sure that whatever caused it wasn't gonna spread.
The flower's been extinct for over a hundred years.
Clark: Well, what does Hamilton have to do with this? Isn't he a geologist?
Chloe: With a meteor fixation.
Pete: We tracked down this paper he wrote six years ago.
Clark: Metropolis University Press? (A university newspaper?)
Chloe: I think this is the last straw. (I don't get? Don't we use that to say we can't
stand sth no more? What about here?) In it, he postulates that
meteor rocks can be used to irradiate dormant plant cells.
Clark: The Nicodemus Diary.
Chloe: It's a first-hand account (The first piece of information?)of Smallville's first mystery.
In 1871, the whole settlement went postal before they even had a post office.(Is she just playing with the words?)
Pete: Nice to know Smallville was still whacked before the meteors got here.
Chloe: Yeah. In the diary, they talked about a flower. The settlers called it Nicodemus.
Said it liberated repressed feelings, sent them into rages, then fever, and final... Well...
Clark: All right, well, where can we find this flower?
Chloe: Well, see that’s the glitch. After the massacre (figuratively meant?), the cavalry torched the whole settlement.
They wanted to make sure that whatever caused it wasn't gonna spread.
The flower's been extinct for over a hundred years.
Clark: Well, what does Hamilton have to do with this? Isn't he a geologist?
Chloe: With a meteor fixation.
Pete: We tracked down this paper he wrote six years ago.
Clark: Metropolis University Press? (A university newspaper?)
Chloe: I think this is the last straw. (I don't get? Don't we use that to say we can't
stand sth no more? What about here?) In it, he postulates that
meteor rocks can be used to irradiate dormant plant cells.
Top answer
second hand information is info that somebody heard from somebody else etc
- second hand information is info that somebody heard from somebody else etc
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first hand account is something written or said by an eye witness, somebody who was actually there.............second hand information is info that somebody heard from somebody else etc
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To go postal comes from a phenomenom that we had in the States a number of years ago. It refers to a person (usually an unhappy employee) going crazy and shooting others at the post office. It happened so many times in such a short period of time that the term "go postal" became an unfortante part of our vocabulary. So, yes, there is a play on words here. She did some crazy things.
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Philiplast straw: the end, all I can tolerate. Perhaps the age of the paper is what upsets her.You know, now it came to me. Could she mean it was the last straw for the doctor?
Meaning that the Press was his last attempt on being herd on his theories?
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