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Nikoo Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Smooth Waters
Could you please help me with the meaning of this sentence?
"Being much about the same age and both under thirty, they were prohibited from the use of a great many convenient phrases which launch conversation into smooth waters"
Night and Day by Woolf
Thanks in advance
"Being much about the same age and both under thirty, they were prohibited from the use of a great many convenient phrases which launch conversation into smooth waters"
Night and Day by Woolf
Thanks in advance
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As I understand this, Denham and Katherine are the youngest people in the room, by far - and moreover, Denham is an outsider in the group, and Katherine is only there because she's the daughter of one of the older people - so they can't really join in the conversation easily with these older folks. If you're a non-native speaker and you're reading this for pleasure, you've picked a bear of a book. This is difficult reading.
- As I understand this, Denham and Katherine are the youngest people in the room, by far - and moreover, Denham is an outsider in the group, and Katherine is only there because she's the daughter of one of the older people - so they can't really join in the conversation easily with these older folks.
- If you're a non-native speaker and you're reading this for pleasure, you've picked a bear of a book.
- This is difficult reading.
- I'm a native speaker and I can barely make sense out of it.
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As I understand this, Denham and Katherine are the youngest people in the room, by far - and moreover, Denham is an outsider in the group, and Katherine is only there because she's the daughter of one of the older people - so they can't really join in the conversation easily with these older folks. If you're a non-native speaker and you're reading this for pleasure, you've picked a bear of a book
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Hi,
phrases which launch conversation into smooth waters"
phrases which take the conversation into simple and non--controversial areas.
eg if you want to get into smooth waters
It's lovely weather, isn't it?
eg if y
phrases which launch conversation into smooth waters"
phrases which take the conversation into simple and non--controversial areas.
eg if you want to get into smooth waters
It's lovely weather, isn't it?
eg if y
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