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Tinanam0102 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Midsection / out and about / scourge

Hi teachers,

Excerpts from Newsweek

He's back! It's 2008 and Michael Douglas's Gordon Gekko - older, grayer, thicker around the midsection - is out and about. Released from jail after serving a long insider-trading sentence, the corporate raider has reinvented himself as a scourge of the corrupt system.

1. What is "thicker around the midsection"?

2. The dash in the text, does the whole sentence structure is written: He is older, grayer, thicker around the midsection?

3. Does "out and about" mean "he is out of jail"?

4. What is "scourge" here mean?

Thank you.

Tinanam
  

Top answer

1. -- More portly. 2.

— Mister Micawber

  • 1.
  • -- More portly.
  • 2.
  • -- Yes.
  • 3.
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1. What is "thicker around the midsection"?-- More portly.

2. The dash in the text, does the whole sentence structure is written: He is older, grayer, thicker around the midsection?-- Yes.

3. Does "out and about" mean "he is out of jail"?-- Yes, here. 'Out and about' in general just means not confined indoors (as when ill, etc.)

4. What is "sc
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Hi Mister Micawber,

Thank you for your help. Does "midsection" mean the body, the belly part"?

Tinanam
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Yes, the waist and belly.
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Hi Mister Micawber,

I understand now. Thank you very much.

Tinanam
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