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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He got from his bosom friend Traddles a letter sent by the narrator's old friend Mr. Micawber, who is full of conceit and have had bankruptcy twice.
'MY DEAR COPPERFIELD,
'You may possibly not be unprepared to receive the intimation that something has turned up. I may have mentioned to you on a former occasion that I was in expectation of such an event.
'I am about to establish myself in one of the provincial towns of our favoured island (where the society may be described as a happy admixture of the agricultural and the clerical), in immediate connexion with one of the learned professions. Mrs. Micawber and our offspring will accompany me. Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?
'In bidding adieu to the modern Babylon, where we have undergone many vicissitudes, I trust not ignobly, Mrs. Micawber and myself cannot disguise from our minds that we part, it may be for years and it may be for ever, with an individual linked by strong associations to the altar of our domestic life. If, on the eve of such a departure, you will accompany our mutual friend, Mr. Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "one" refers to Mr. Micawber.
2. I'd like to know if "which" means the Micawbers will be buried at the spot.
3. I'd like to know if "has acquired" means "will have acquired."
4. And I'd like to know if "disguise" can take a "that" clause" as an object.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He got from his bosom friend Traddles a letter sent by the narrator's old friend Mr. Micawber, who is full of conceit and have had bankruptcy twice.
'MY DEAR COPPERFIELD,
'You may possibly not be unprepared to receive the intimation that something has turned up. I may have mentioned to you on a former occasion that I was in expectation of such an event.
'I am about to establish myself in one of the provincial towns of our favoured island (where the society may be described as a happy admixture of the agricultural and the clerical), in immediate connexion with one of the learned professions. Mrs. Micawber and our offspring will accompany me. Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?
'In bidding adieu to the modern Babylon, where we have undergone many vicissitudes, I trust not ignobly, Mrs. Micawber and myself cannot disguise from our minds that we part, it may be for years and it may be for ever, with an individual linked by strong associations to the altar of our domestic life. If, on the eve of such a departure, you will accompany our mutual friend, Mr. Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "one" refers to Mr. Micawber.
2. I'd like to know if "which" means the Micawbers will be buried at the spot.
3. I'd like to know if "has acquired" means "will have acquired."
4. And I'd like to know if "disguise" can take a "that" clause" as an object.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon 1. I'd like to know if "one" refers to Mr. Micawber.
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know if "one" refers to Mr.
- Micawber.
- No.
- "One of the learned professions" would be a learned profession, just like "one of the children" would be a child.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "one" refers to Mr. Micawber.No. "One of the learned professions" would be a learned profession, just like "one of the children" would be a child.
park sang joon2. I'd like to know if "which" means the Micawbers will be buried at the spot.In general terms, yes. The passage is about wh
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Thank you, CalifJim, for your so very helpful answer. 
3. As the original clause "the spot has acquired a reputation" is in
3. As the original clause "the spot has acquired a reputation" is in
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park sang joonAs the original clause "the spot has acquired a reputation" is in the present perfect tense, I thought it meant the spot was already famousYes. That is the correct interpretation. It is already famous. (I don't know what spot the author is referring to, but readers in the 19th century would have known.)
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