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Kapa Posted 12 years ago
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Hi dear friends,
I have some questions about the following text. Would you like help me?
Thanks
“Making her way to the Consilience pharmacy on her pink-and-purple electric scooter, she checks her watch: she doesn’t have much time. She needs to key in at Positron by five-thirty at the latest, and it’s already three. She told Stan she had to do some ordering for the hospital: that’s why she was in a rush to leave the house. The month before last, her excuse was slipcovers—didn’t he agree about the slipcovers, weren’t they a drab color, shouldn’t they both go and view the selection and put in a requisition for something more cheerful? Look, she has some fabric swatches! A floral, or maybe an abstract motif?
Anything along those lines and Stan zones out, and she can count on his not having heard a word she’s said.”
1. "the month before last" means "two months ago"?
2. "didn't he agree .......... " means "shouldn't agree"?
3. "the selection" refers to their current slipcovers in their house?
4. "anything along those lines" means "with everything in their way?
I have some questions about the following text. Would you like help me?
Thanks
“Making her way to the Consilience pharmacy on her pink-and-purple electric scooter, she checks her watch: she doesn’t have much time. She needs to key in at Positron by five-thirty at the latest, and it’s already three. She told Stan she had to do some ordering for the hospital: that’s why she was in a rush to leave the house. The month before last, her excuse was slipcovers—didn’t he agree about the slipcovers, weren’t they a drab color, shouldn’t they both go and view the selection and put in a requisition for something more cheerful? Look, she has some fabric swatches! A floral, or maybe an abstract motif?
Anything along those lines and Stan zones out, and she can count on his not having heard a word she’s said.”
1. "the month before last" means "two months ago"?
2. "didn't he agree .......... " means "shouldn't agree"?
3. "the selection" refers to their current slipcovers in their house?
4. "anything along those lines" means "with everything in their way?
Top answer
1. More or less. 2.
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- More or less.
- 2.
- ".
- Now she is recalling this conversation as indirect speech.
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1. More or less.
2. She actually asked him "Don't you agree about the slipcovers?". Now she is recalling this conversation as indirect speech.
3. I think it means the selection of styles that are available.
4. "anything along those lines" = "anything similar (to that kind of conversation)".
2. She actually asked him "Don't you agree about the slipcovers?". Now she is recalling this conversation as indirect speech.
3. I think it means the selection of styles that are available.
4. "anything along those lines" = "anything similar (to that kind of conversation)".
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Dear friend,
I can not understand why there is "and" between two bold sentences? I konw "Stan zones out" has its own subject and verb, so why we need "and"? In the second part we have ",and" again. I know here she concludes of the first part.
Anything along those lines and Stan zones out, and she can count on his not having heard a word she’s said.
I can not understand why there is "and" between two bold sentences? I konw "Stan zones out" has its own subject and verb, so why we need "and"? In the second part we have ",and" again. I know here she concludes of the first part.
Anything along those lines and Stan zones out, and she can count on his not having heard a word she’s said.
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KapaAnything along those lines and Stan zones out, and she can count on his not having heard a word she’s said.It means that when "Anything along those lines" happens, the result is that "Stan zones out" and also that "she can count on his not having heard a word she’s said".
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The smallest problem and she panics.
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