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Vermont Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

One chance in ten

"She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining-u on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly.

What does 'for her to want to live' mean? She must want to live to deserve this chance? Or something else?

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Hi, " She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining- up on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly.

  • Hi, " She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer.
  • " And that chance is for her to want to live.
  • This way people have of lining- up on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly.
  • What does 'for her to want to live' mean?
  • She must want to live to deserve this chance?
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Hi,

"She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining-up on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly.

What does 'for her to want to live'
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Means if she want to live then only she can be alive ....

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