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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #1
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
His old friend Steerforth, who had fled with the narrator's old nurse's niece, just now drowned.
He came to his house, to break the news to his mother.
Now, Rosa Dartle, Steerforth's cousin and mistress, who has a scar which Steerforth had made as a child, talks to Steerforth's mother.
Chapter 56 THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
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'Look here!' she said, striking the scar again, with a relentless hand. 'When he grew into the better understanding of what he had done, he saw it, and repented of it! I could sing to him, and talk to him, and show the ardour that I felt in all he did, and attain with labour to such knowledge as most interested him; and I attracted him. When he was freshest and truest, he loved me. Yes, he did! Many a time, when you were put off with a slight word, he has taken Me to his heart!'
She said it with a taunting pride in the midst of her frenzy - for it was little less - yet with an eager remembrance of it, in which the smouldering embers of a gentler feeling kindled for the moment.
'I descended - as I might have known I should, but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship - into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with, as the inconstant humour took him. When he grew weary, I grew weary. As his fancy died out, I would no more have tried to strengthen any power I had, than I would have married him on his being forced to take me for his wife. We fell away from one another without a word. Perhaps you saw it, and were not sorry. Since then, I have been a mere disfigured piece of furniture between you both; having no eyes, no ears, no feelings, no remembrances. Moan? Moan for what you made him; not for your love. I tell you that the time was, when I loved him better than you ever did!'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "with" means "because of."
2. I'd like to know if "it" refers to "a taunting pride."
3. I'd like to know if "but that" means "but."
4. And I'd like to know if "of me" is implied before the former "grew away" and "of myself" before the latter "grew weary."
Thank you in advance for your help.
His old friend Steerforth, who had fled with the narrator's old nurse's niece, just now drowned.
He came to his house, to break the news to his mother.
Now, Rosa Dartle, Steerforth's cousin and mistress, who has a scar which Steerforth had made as a child, talks to Steerforth's mother.
Chapter 56 THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
.................................
'Look here!' she said, striking the scar again, with a relentless hand. 'When he grew into the better understanding of what he had done, he saw it, and repented of it! I could sing to him, and talk to him, and show the ardour that I felt in all he did, and attain with labour to such knowledge as most interested him; and I attracted him. When he was freshest and truest, he loved me. Yes, he did! Many a time, when you were put off with a slight word, he has taken Me to his heart!'
She said it with a taunting pride in the midst of her frenzy - for it was little less - yet with an eager remembrance of it, in which the smouldering embers of a gentler feeling kindled for the moment.
'I descended - as I might have known I should, but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship - into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with, as the inconstant humour took him. When he grew weary, I grew weary. As his fancy died out, I would no more have tried to strengthen any power I had, than I would have married him on his being forced to take me for his wife. We fell away from one another without a word. Perhaps you saw it, and were not sorry. Since then, I have been a mere disfigured piece of furniture between you both; having no eyes, no ears, no feelings, no remembrances. Moan? Moan for what you made him; not for your love. I tell you that the time was, when I loved him better than you ever did!'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "with" means "because of."
2. I'd like to know if "it" refers to "a taunting pride."
3. I'd like to know if "but that" means "but."
4. And I'd like to know if "of me" is implied before the former "grew away" and "of myself" before the latter "grew weary."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. " is idiomatic here. " 2.
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- " is idiomatic here.
- " 2.
- " 3.
- No, "but that" is idiomatic here.
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1. "Put off with a ..." is idiomatic here. No other word can be substituted for "with."
2. "It" means "her frenzy."
3. No, "but that" is idiomatic here. The is no exact equivalent for it. The closest might be something like "except that."
4. No, there is no exact way of translating these. The statement, "When he grew weary, I grew weary.", stands on its own, an
2. "It" means "her frenzy."
3. No, "but that" is idiomatic here. The is no exact equivalent for it. The closest might be something like "except that."
4. No, there is no exact way of translating these. The statement, "When he grew weary, I grew weary.", stands on its own, an
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