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Behnam110 Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
symmetry
What is the meaning of this sentence :
There was a certain symmetry to coming back to New York, where I started my artistic life all those years ago.
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There was a certain symmetry to coming back to New York, where I started my artistic life all those years ago.
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Top answer
I went to New York then I'm going to New York now Do you see the similarity? book=Third&va=radial+symmetry (25 Aug. 2006).
- I went to New York then I'm going to New York now Do you see the similarity?
- book=Third&va=radial+symmetry (25 Aug.
- 2006).
- ---------- Perhaps the author means to say that with regard to an imaginary axis of time, things have happened symmetrically (in the same way) in his youth and old age.
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I went to New York then
I'm going to New York now
Do you see the similarity?
symmetry=similarity
in this context
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symmetry
2 : correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts that are on opposite sides of a dividing line or median plane or that are distributed abo
I'm going to New York now
Do you see the similarity?
symmetry=similarity
in this context
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symmetry
2 : correspondence in size, shape, and relative position of parts that are on opposite sides of a dividing line or median plane or that are distributed abo
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It's not JUST the similarity, though. If you drew a "map" of this person's life and folded it in half, you'd have the two ends both in New York - the beginning and ending in the same place.
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Grammar GeekIt's not JUST the similarity, though. If you drew a "map" of this person's life and folded it in half, you'd have the two ends both in New York - the beginning and ending in the same place.
Agree, I mentioned that with that " imaginary axis of time" in my answer.
Symmetry isn't just similarity.
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