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Bambang Irawan Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Moby Dick Novels
What is the meaning of "If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me".
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Ishmael means that just about everybody ("almost all") feels just about the same thing about the ocean as he does. Maybe they don't realize it ("if they but knew"); maybe their depth of feeling is different ("in their degree"); maybe the feelings aren't identical ("very nearly"); maybe they don't always feel the same ("some time or other"), but still the shared feeling is there.
- Ishmael means that just about everybody ("almost all") feels just about the same thing about the ocean as he does.
- Maybe they don't realize it ("if they but knew"); maybe their depth of feeling is different ("in their degree"); maybe the feelings aren't identical ("very nearly"); maybe they don't always feel the same ("some time or other"), but still the shared feeling is there.
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Ishmael means that just about everybody ("almost all") feels just about the same thing about the ocean as he does. Maybe they don't realize it ("if they but knew"); maybe their depth of feeling is different ("in their degree"); maybe the feelings aren't identical ("very nearly"); maybe they don't always feel the same ("some time or other"), but still the shared feeling is there.
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