Adeline sat for van Gogh. So did the twenty-one-year-old Marguerite Gachet. A close friend of the doctor's daughter later claimed that the painter and his model had fallen in love, and Dr. Gachet forbade van Gogh to come to his house any longer.
1.That means Marguerite Gachet sat for van Gogh like Adline?
2.That for in sat for means the same as in it's difficult for me? (simple direction)
(cf. A number of sixth-formers came up that week to sit for university entrance. : take an examination)
That means Marguerite Gachet sat for van Gogh like Adeline? Right. That for in sat for means the same as in it's difficult for me?
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anonymous1.That means Marguerite Gachet sat for van Gogh like Adeline?
Right.
anonymous2.That for in sat for means the same as in it's difficult for me? (simple direction)
Perhaps. In your excerpt, I would choose this definition of 'for':
3. suiting the purposes or needs of