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Jobb Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Snap awake
Snap awake = suddenly get awake?
Ventilator = electrical fan? Air conditioner?
Context:
The accident's power over him was diminishing, he said, as his ventilator sucked and hissed. He no longer snapped awake in the quiet hours, forced to confront, all over again, the fact that he had no sensation from the neck down. He didn't need to turn away when he was driven past the barn where he kept Buck, the thoroughbred horse from which he had been thrown in 1995, breaking his neck. But learning to live with his paralysis wasn't the same as resigning himself to it. "I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled," he said. "Never." He had vowed, controversially, to walk again by the age of 50. At the time, that deadline was three weeks away.
Ventilator = electrical fan? Air conditioner?
Context:
The accident's power over him was diminishing, he said, as his ventilator sucked and hissed. He no longer snapped awake in the quiet hours, forced to confront, all over again, the fact that he had no sensation from the neck down. He didn't need to turn away when he was driven past the barn where he kept Buck, the thoroughbred horse from which he had been thrown in 1995, breaking his neck. But learning to live with his paralysis wasn't the same as resigning himself to it. "I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled," he said. "Never." He had vowed, controversially, to walk again by the age of 50. At the time, that deadline was three weeks away.
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In this case I believe a "ventilator" is a medical device which "breathes" for a paralyzed person. They typically make "sucking and hissing" sounds.
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In the thread, " At the time, that deadline was three weeks away."
"At the time" refers to when Reech spoke "I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled," he said. "Never." ?
"At the time" refers to when Reech spoke "I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled," he said. "Never." ?
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At the time (that he vowed he would walk before he was 50), he was about 49 years, 11 months, and one week old.
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I think "at the time" in this case means at the time when he was interviewed for the article you are reading.
It is quite likely that by the time to article was published three weeks would have passed. Because of this nearness to the deadline, the author probably felt it would be important to clarify.
Also, I believe that Reeves was quoted as vowing to walk again by age fi
It is quite likely that by the time to article was published three weeks would have passed. Because of this nearness to the deadline, the author probably felt it would be important to clarify.
Also, I believe that Reeves was quoted as vowing to walk again by age fi
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I don't get "deadline" either, because it seems to mean both:
1) The time of being 50 years old;
2) The time of his passing away.
Which one is correct?
1) The time of being 50 years old;
2) The time of his passing away.
Which one is correct?
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Upon rereading the text, I retract my interpretation. 
It is as Guest says. At the time of the interview the deadline (o
It is as Guest says. At the time of the interview the deadline (o
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At the time, that deadline was three weeks away.
^ This means that he will be 50 in 3 weeks. That's all.
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