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Antonija Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

hanging lamp

Hello,

Do you understand this sentence, how can it be improved? Thanks

She will accuse her husband that he practiced missionary position with her while with his mistress he hangs by the hanging lamp.
  

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Hello Antonija This might be better translated by the idiom "to swing from the chandeliers", which implies unusual and adventurous sexual positions. " MrP

  • Hello Antonija This might be better translated by the idiom "to swing from the chandeliers", which implies unusual and adventurous sexual positions.
  • " MrP
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Hello Antonija

This might be better translated by the idiom "to swing from the chandeliers", which implies unusual and adventurous sexual positions.

So:

"...while with his mistress he swings from the chandeliers..."

MrP
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I do wish that I could use the emoticons on this board!!

lol - I just wonder where this book is taking us and whether it is going to get us banned for 'salacious' content!!

An excellent translation, Mr P!

Are serious language teachers supposed to know about such things??? again lol
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I'm just beginning to wonder whether you have been banned
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I'm always worried that posters will put their backs out and blame us...

(Antonija??)
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Those of us who are a little older may well do so if we tried to use the chandeliers!!!!

- however having not been here for long I just wondered, particularly after the inbuilt censor asterisked me out fairly quickly on something, which I now can't remember!

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