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Michelle Cha Posted 13 years ago
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.. life of a college student is to new motherhood as taking a nap is to getting up every two hours...

"Then you had a baby and realized that the busy-but-nap-including life of a college student is to new motherhood as taking a nap is to getting up every two hours top nurse a baby over night."

I don't get this sentence. Please enlighten me teachers.
  

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Then you had a baby = then you gave birth and realized = and realized that the busy-but-nap-including life of a college student = that the life of a college student, which is busy but still allows time for sleeping is to = resembles new motherhood = the life of a new mother as = in the same way that taking a nap = Sleeping for a short time is to = resembles getting up every two hours to nurse a baby overnight. = waking up to feed a baby every 2 hours all night.

— Mister Micawber

  • Then you had a baby = then you gave birth and realized = and realized that the busy-but-nap-including life of a college student = that the life of a college student, which is busy but still allows time for sleeping is to = resembles new motherhood = the life of a new mother as = in the same way that taking a nap = Sleeping for a short time is to = resembles getting up every two hours to nurse a baby overnight.
  • = waking up to feed a baby every 2 hours all night.
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Then you had a baby = then you gave birth

and realized = and realized

that the busy-but-nap-including life of a college student = that the life of a college student, which is busy but still allows time for sleeping

is to = resembles

new motherhood = the life of a new mother

as = in the same way that

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