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JCDenton Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

how do you understand this sentence?

Hi Guys,

Today, when I was translating a movie for my parents, I came across this situation. Criminal forensic was talking about the suspect.

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"Anyway, he was really into model trains". (He probably was a fan of the model trains, they found one later at his flat.)

"You know, the way a serial killer's really into pets." (I have absolutely no idea, what was the point of this sentence...:-(((

can you guys help me with the second sentence...

many thanks

JCD
  

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if you understood the first, you should be able to understand the 2nd, better than us who haven't seen the show ...

— Marius Hancu

  • if you understood the first, you should be able to understand the 2nd, better than us who haven't seen the show ...
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if you understood the first, you should be able to understand the 2nd, better than us who haven't seen the show ...
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aren't they the same meaning
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Yeah, maybe the point of the second sentence is something like: "You know, how serial killers always has a hobby...."

But I wonder, if the synonym list of the to word "pet" includes the word "hobby"......
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to be into smth. - to be interested in it or to like it very much
pet, according to my dictionary, can also mean a favoured thing[item].
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to be into smth. - to be interested in it or to like it very much
pet, according to my dictionary, can also mean a favoured thing[item].
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OK, generally speaking, serial killers move on to killing human beings after spending some years killing/torturing animals (pets). Nearly all of them have an animal torture history, and this is quite well known. So it's a sarcastic sentence - it refers to the fact that serial killers like to kill/torure animals. So, liking something in the way that serial killers like pets, is not a good thing!
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Nona The BritOK, generally speaking, serial killers move on to killing human beings after spending some years killing/torturing animals (pets). Nearly all of them have an animal torture history, and this is quite well known. So it's a sarcastic sentence - it refers to the fact that serial killers like to kill/torure animals. So, liking something in the way that serial kil
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It's like saying 'he likes X the way that spiders like flies!'
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WOW, Nona you are ***!...;-)

From the Marius reaction, I had a fear that I didn't describe the situation very well, but it seems you hit the point! Thank you for excellent explanation!

Frankly, I hate sarcastic sentences in english....:-) They are usually full of expressions, that it is really hard to understand....:-((( (That's exactly this case...)

thank you and have a
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