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Nugso Posted 11 years ago
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Hi. The following dialogue between Sherlock Holmes and Irine Adler confuses me.
S: You got carried away. The game was too, you were enjoying yourself too much.
I: There's no such thing as too much.
S: Oh, enjoying the thrill of the chase is fine. Craving the distraction of the game, I sympathise entirely, but sentiment?
I don't understand the last part. Sherlock says that it's fine to enjoy the thrill of the chase (He was chasing her all the time.) but what did he exactly mean in his last sentence? I think it's not even a complete sentence.
Could you help, please?
S: You got carried away. The game was too, you were enjoying yourself too much.
I: There's no such thing as too much.
S: Oh, enjoying the thrill of the chase is fine. Craving the distraction of the game, I sympathise entirely, but sentiment?
I don't understand the last part. Sherlock says that it's fine to enjoy the thrill of the chase (He was chasing her all the time.) but what did he exactly mean in his last sentence? I think it's not even a complete sentence.
Could you help, please?
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I think he means "I sympathise with your craving the distraction of the game [the chase], but not with your involving sentiment [i.e. emotional feelings] in it."
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GPYI think he means "I sympathise with your craving the distraction of the game [the chase], but not with your involving sentiment [i.e. emotional feelings] in it."Oh! I see now. Thank you GPY.
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