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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #2
The narrator recalls his childhood.
He was forced to work for his own living for Mr. Murdstone's friend Mr. Quinion at London by his stepfather Mr. Murdstone.
He lodged at a house, the master of which Mr. Micawber is so very poor, and goes to his work Murdstone and Grinby's.
Mr.Micawber's family has moved to Plymouth for Mr. Micawber's bankruptcy.
And the protagonist intends to run away to his grand aunt Miss Betsey.
Now he has to move his stuff to the Coach-Office.
There was a long-legged young man with a very little empty donkey-cart, standing near the Obelisk, in the Blackfiars Road, whose eye I caught as I was going by, and who, addressing me as "Sixpenn'orth of bad ha'pence," hoped "I should know him agin to swear to"?in allusion, I have no doubt, to my staring at him. I stopped to assure him that I not done so in bad manners, but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job.
"Wot job?" said the long-legged young man.
"To move a box," I answered.
"Wot box?" said the long-legged young man.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know what "six pence worth of bad half pence" means here.
I'd like to know what "I should know him agin to swear to" means here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He was forced to work for his own living for Mr. Murdstone's friend Mr. Quinion at London by his stepfather Mr. Murdstone.
He lodged at a house, the master of which Mr. Micawber is so very poor, and goes to his work Murdstone and Grinby's.
Mr.Micawber's family has moved to Plymouth for Mr. Micawber's bankruptcy.
And the protagonist intends to run away to his grand aunt Miss Betsey.
Now he has to move his stuff to the Coach-Office.
There was a long-legged young man with a very little empty donkey-cart, standing near the Obelisk, in the Blackfiars Road, whose eye I caught as I was going by, and who, addressing me as "Sixpenn'orth of bad ha'pence," hoped "I should know him agin to swear to"?in allusion, I have no doubt, to my staring at him. I stopped to assure him that I not done so in bad manners, but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job.
"Wot job?" said the long-legged young man.
"To move a box," I answered.
"Wot box?" said the long-legged young man.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
I'd like to know what "six pence worth of bad half pence" means here.
I'd like to know what "I should know him agin to swear to" means here.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon I'd like to know what "six pence worth of bad half pence" means here. 'Bad' = counterfeit. 'Six pennies worth of bad half-pence' would then mean '12-times counterfeit'.
- park sang joon I'd like to know what "six pence worth of bad half pence" means here.
- 'Bad' = counterfeit.
- 'Six pennies worth of bad half-pence' would then mean '12-times counterfeit'.
- Since the fellow is responding to David's importunate look, I would take it to mean something like 'You rascal'.
- park sang joon I'd like to know what "I should know him agin to swear to" means here.
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park sang joonI'd like to know what "six pence worth of bad half pence" means here.'Bad' = counterfeit. 'Six pennies worth of bad half-pence' would then mean '12-times counterfeit'. Since the fellow is responding to David's importunate look, I would take it to mean something like 'You rascal'.
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