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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Many creature comforts?
1) Does "hard fare" mean "bad food"?
2) Does "many creature comforts" mean "many comfortable conditions that man enjoys"? If so, is it grammatically old-fashioned?
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Wilde was imprisoned first in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Pentonville and then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Wandsworth in London. Inmates followed a regimen of "hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed", which wore very harshly on Wilde, accustomed as he was to many creature comforts.[137] His health declined sharply, and in November he collapsed during chapel from illness and hunger. His right ear drum was ruptured in the fall, an injury that later contributed to his death.[138][139] He spent two months in the infirmary.[138][140]
2) Does "many creature comforts" mean "many comfortable conditions that man enjoys"? If so, is it grammatically old-fashioned?
Context:
Wilde was imprisoned first in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Pentonville and then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Wandsworth in London. Inmates followed a regimen of "hard labour, hard fare and a hard bed", which wore very harshly on Wilde, accustomed as he was to many creature comforts.[137] His health declined sharply, and in November he collapsed during chapel from illness and hunger. His right ear drum was ruptured in the fall, an injury that later contributed to his death.[138][139] He spent two months in the infirmary.[138][140]
Top answer
NL888 1) Does "hard fare" mean "bad food"? That's how I would take it. NL888 2) Does "many creature comforts" mean "many comfortable conditions that man enjoys"?
- NL888 1) Does "hard fare" mean "bad food"?
- That's how I would take it.
- NL888 2) Does "many creature comforts" mean "many comfortable conditions that man enjoys"?
- If so, is it grammatically old-fashioned?
- Right.
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NL8881) Does "hard fare" mean "bad food"?That's how I would take it.
NL8882) Does "many creature comforts" mean "many comfortable conditions that man enjoys"? If so, is it grammatically old-fashioned?Right. All the things we have in our homes that make life comfortable for us.
It is grammatically fine, but I don'
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