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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Taylor's way (from Hemingway's To Have and Not Have)
Hello. Anyone can help me with the following sentence? Please give me your opinion.This is from To Have and Not Have written by Hemingway.
What's the meaning of "I saw her a couple of days ago on Ed. Taylor's ways, he checked"?
There are two speedboats that could catch us, Harry was thinking. One, Ray’s, is running the mail from Matecumbe. Where is the other? I saw her a couple of days ago on Ed. Tylor’s ways, he checked. That was the one I thought of having Bee-lips hire. There’s two more, he remembered now. One the State Road Department has up along the keys. The other’s laid up in the Garrison Bight.
What's the meaning of "I saw her a couple of days ago on Ed. Taylor's ways, he checked"?
There are two speedboats that could catch us, Harry was thinking. One, Ray’s, is running the mail from Matecumbe. Where is the other? I saw her a couple of days ago on Ed. Tylor’s ways, he checked. That was the one I thought of having Bee-lips hire. There’s two more, he remembered now. One the State Road Department has up along the keys. The other’s laid up in the Garrison Bight.
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Without researching this, this appears to mean that there are four speedboats that could match the speaker's boat in speed: a boat belonging to Ray; a boat that the speaker saw a couple of days ago on the route ("ways") that Ed. ; and a boat moored in the Garrison Bight.
- Without researching this, this appears to mean that there are four speedboats that could match the speaker's boat in speed: a boat belonging to Ray; a boat that the speaker saw a couple of days ago on the route ("ways") that Ed.
- ; and a boat moored in the Garrison Bight.
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Without researching this, this appears to mean that there are four speedboats that could match the speaker's boat in speed: a boat belonging to Ray; a boat that the speaker saw a couple of days ago on the route ("ways") that Ed. (I don't know why there's a period after "Ed," though - that's unusual) Taylor takes (and the speaker had Taylor check on that boat); a boat belonging to the State Road D
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