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Nesa Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Paraphrasing

Hi

I tried my best, but I didn't get it. Would you please paraphrase the highlighted ones?

Lang found the South still caught up inthe past and deeply segregated. She told her son DAn Dixon how in this first trip she 'ran up against a problem she'd never encountered before'. 'Earlier I had gotten at people through the ways they'd been torn loose, but now I had to get at them through the ways they were bound up.'

Thank you

Nesa
  

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Greetings, were I given this excerpt in isolation (as is the case), I would deduce the following: 'Earlier, I tried to understand people based on their differences, but, in this case, I had to try to understand them based on their similarities'. Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff

— Andriy Lapin

  • Greetings, were I given this excerpt in isolation (as is the case), I would deduce the following: 'Earlier, I tried to understand people based on their differences, but, in this case, I had to try to understand them based on their similarities'.
  • Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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Greetings,

were I given this excerpt in isolation (as is the case), I would deduce the following:

'Earlier, I tried to understand people based on their differences, but, in this case, I had to try to understand them based on their similarities'.

Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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Hi Mr Chebrikoff

Thank you for the reply. But could you tell me the meaning of bound up and torn loose?

Regards,

Nesa
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Greetings,

this part is pretty much idiomatic. The former means 'joined together', the latter - 'not kept together'.

Respectfully, Gleb Chebrikoff
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