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Newguest Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Part which any vehicle would use
Hi
A woman was walking in the downpour.
The man who drove the taxi had been right. The road
was under water, brown, muddy and swirling; there it lay,
an encroachment of the river upon the dry land, with the
high-pitched bridge rearing up out of the water like an
island. In the centre of the road, on the part which any
vehicle would use, the water must be above axle level.
I take it to mean that the road lay there where the water encroached upon a dry land and only a piece of the bridge was visible.
What does it mean: "on the part which any vehicle would use"? Does it mean that the centre of the road could be used by any vehicle? It's a strange sentence to me.
A woman was walking in the downpour.
The man who drove the taxi had been right. The road
was under water, brown, muddy and swirling; there it lay,
an encroachment of the river upon the dry land, with the
high-pitched bridge rearing up out of the water like an
island. In the centre of the road, on the part which any
vehicle would use, the water must be above axle level.
I take it to mean that the road lay there where the water encroached upon a dry land and only a piece of the bridge was visible.
What does it mean: "on the part which any vehicle would use"? Does it mean that the centre of the road could be used by any vehicle? It's a strange sentence to me.
Top answer
on the part which any vehicle would use = on any usable part of the road
- on the part which any vehicle would use = on any usable part of the road
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on the part which any vehicle would use = on any usable part of the road
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So the centre of the road was a usable part of the road for all vehicles.
Does it mean that the sides of the road were so bad that everyone tried to avoid driving along them?
Does it mean that the sides of the road were so bad that everyone tried to avoid driving along them?
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Yes, probably; in any case, the sides or shoulders are in deeper water now.
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