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Eagerforeng Posted 16 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
I feel very curious about 'keen'.
-i'm now reading this paragraph, but
(in the front of this, the main character, an orphan girl imagines to seat in a car's back seat and saying to her driver "home"., driving along big houses.)
?Jerusha had an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care but keen as it was, it could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter. Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha, in all her seventeen years, had never stepped inside an ordinary house; she could not picture the daily routine of those other human beings who carried on their lives undiscommoded by orphans.
-but keen as it was??? i have no idea what does that mean... i can't connect the front, and the next sentence of 'but keen as it was. i tried to find it at dictionary, but that didn't help me but lead me to this website (keen had so many meanings.) and
->i'm not sure the 'it' means jerusha.
->if keen meant 'eager'.... i don't know... but if keen meant 'clever' or 'senses' etc. whatever... i still don't understand
->please rewrite the underlined part in a easier english. or whatever the way it is help me read this.
(in the front of this, the main character, an orphan girl imagines to seat in a car's back seat and saying to her driver "home"., driving along big houses.)
?Jerusha had an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care but keen as it was, it could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter. Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha, in all her seventeen years, had never stepped inside an ordinary house; she could not picture the daily routine of those other human beings who carried on their lives undiscommoded by orphans.
-but keen as it was??? i have no idea what does that mean... i can't connect the front, and the next sentence of 'but keen as it was. i tried to find it at dictionary, but that didn't help me but lead me to this website (keen had so many meanings.) and
->i'm not sure the 'it' means jerusha.
->if keen meant 'eager'.... i don't know... but if keen meant 'clever' or 'senses' etc. whatever... i still don't understand
->please rewrite the underlined part in a easier english. or whatever the way it is help me read this.
Top answer
Jerusha had an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care but keen as it (meaning 'her imagination') was , it (meaning ' her imagination') could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter. Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha, in all her seventeen years, had never stepped inside an ordinary house; she could not picture the daily routine of those other human beings who carried on their lives undiscommoded by orphans.
- Jerusha had an imagination, Mrs.
- Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care but keen as it (meaning 'her imagination') was , it (meaning ' her imagination') could not carry her beyond the front porch of the houses she would enter.
- Poor, eager, adventurous little Jerusha, in all her seventeen years, had never stepped inside an ordinary house; she could not picture the daily routine of those other human beings who carried on their lives undiscommoded by orphans.
- -but keen as it was???
- i have no idea what does that mean...
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Hi,
i'm now reading this paragraph, but
(in the front of this, the main character, an orphan girl imagines to seat in a car's back seat and saying to her driver "home"., driving along big houses.)
?Jerusha had an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care but keen as it (meaning 'her imagination') was,
i'm now reading this paragraph, but
(in the front of this, the main character, an orphan girl imagines to seat in a car's back seat and saying to her driver "home"., driving along big houses.)
?Jerusha had an imagination, Mrs. Lippett told her, that would get her into trouble if she didn't take care but keen as it (meaning 'her imagination') was,
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"as keen as her imagination was" is a stylish and literary way of saying "although her imagination was strong"
thanx a lot!
thanx a lot!
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