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Dela Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Live in this neighborhood

It's not really necessary to look over the Bakers' fence. You can see almost as well looking through it. But Garrett kept sticking his head up, so I figured I should too, although in the back of my mind I was aware that Garrett didn't have to live in this neighborhood— I did.

what's the speaker talking about by saying Garrett didn't have to live in this neighborhood while I had to. Is it sth related with Garrett stick his head up...?
  

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Maybe, (it's just a guess based on your short quote) the author means that Garrett had other options, he could easily leave the neighborhood and move to another place. That's why he didn't care much about establishing good relationships with the neighbors and, thus, kept on being nosey, even at the risk of offending his neighbors. Unlike Garrett, the author had no opportunity of moving to another place, so he felt that he should resist the temptation to "look over the fences", just to be in his neighbors' good books.

— Vchekh

  • Maybe, (it's just a guess based on your short quote) the author means that Garrett had other options, he could easily leave the neighborhood and move to another place.
  • That's why he didn't care much about establishing good relationships with the neighbors and, thus, kept on being nosey, even at the risk of offending his neighbors.
  • Unlike Garrett, the author had no opportunity of moving to another place, so he felt that he should resist the temptation to "look over the fences", just to be in his neighbors' good books.
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Maybe, (it's just a guess based on your short quote) the author means that Garrett had other options, he could easily leave the neighborhood and move to another place. That's why he didn't care much about establishing good relationships with the neighbors and, thus, kept on being nosey, even at the risk of offending his neighbors. Unlike Garrett, the author had no opportunity of moving to another
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What's the difference between Look over and Look through? From the dictionary, their meaning are similar. But why the speaker says no need to look over as one can see almost as well looking through it, sounds like looking over the fences is no good (like spy) while looking through the fences is normal?

Another question is about "Garrett tried to stick his head up", is there some special
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Well, when you look through the fence you look through the gaps between the planks, and if the planks are close enough you remain unnoticed. When you look over the fence, your head is above the fence, and the neighbors can see you spying on them. Garrett doesn't seem to give a **** about what his neighbors think of him and his manners, so he looks right over the fence, even th
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Now I underand. Thank you for the clear explanation.
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