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A woman was injured. An animal hit her strongly in the stomach.
She bent over and retched with the painful, empty-bellied sickness of the last stages of mal de mer.
--- I'm not sure I understand that sentence correctly? Does it say: She bent over because she wanted to vomit just like people who have seasickness in its last stages?
And what was painful? Does it say that when she bent over it was painful or that seasickness is painful? It's a confusing sentence to me.
Thanks
A woman was injured. An animal hit her strongly in the stomach.
She bent over and retched with the painful, empty-bellied sickness of the last stages of mal de mer.
--- I'm not sure I understand that sentence correctly? Does it say: She bent over because she wanted to vomit just like people who have seasickness in its last stages?
And what was painful? Does it say that when she bent over it was painful or that seasickness is painful? It's a confusing sentence to me.
Thanks
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e she did not vomit). Haven't you ever vomited repeatedly until there is no more vomit left inside you? By that time, your stomach is very painful from its repeated violent contractions.
- e she did not vomit).
- Haven't you ever vomited repeatedly until there is no more vomit left inside you?
- By that time, your stomach is very painful from its repeated violent contractions.
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Yes, she bent over and made the painful motions of vomiting, though it was 'empty-bellied' (i.e she did not vomit). Haven't you ever vomited repeatedly until there is no more vomit left inside you? By that time, your stomach is very painful from its repeated violent contractions.
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And what she did was similar to the last stages of seasickness?
Is it the comparison that the author of this sentence is making here?
And what she did was similar to the last stages of seasickness?
Is it the comparison that the author of this sentence is making here?
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Hi,
A woman was injured. An animal hit her strongly in the stomach.
She bent over and retched with the painful, empty-bellied sickness of the last stages of mal de mer.
--- I'm not sure I understand that sentence correctly? Does it say: She bent over because she wanted to vomit just like people who have seasickness in its last stages?
A woman was injured. An animal hit her strongly in the stomach.
She bent over and retched with the painful, empty-bellied sickness of the last stages of mal de mer.
--- I'm not sure I understand that sentence correctly? Does it say: She bent over because she wanted to vomit just like people who have seasickness in its last stages?
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