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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 adolescence.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James Steerforth, leaving her fiance behind.
Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty has sought for her niece Emily after her leaving.
Emily's old friend Martha found out her, kept her in her lodging.
Martha led the narrator to the place, but James Steerforth's cousin Rosa Dartle arrived ahead.
'If you live in his home and know him, you know, perhaps, what his power with a weak, vain girl might be. I don't defend myself, but I know well, and he knows well, or he will know when he comes to die, and his mind is troubled with it, that he used all his power to deceive me, and that I believed him, trusted him, and loved him!'
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'SHE love!' she said. 'THAT carrion! And he ever cared for her, she'd tell me. Ha, ha! The liars that these traders are!'
Her mockery was worse than her undisguised rage. Of the two, I would have much preferred to be the object of the latter. But, when she suffered it to break loose, it was only for a moment. She had chained it up again, and however it might tear her within, she subdued it to herself.
'I came here, you pure fountain of love,' she said, 'to see - as I began by telling you - what such a thing as you was like. I was curious. I am satisfied. Also to tell you, that you had best seek that home of yours, with all speed, and hide your head among those excellent people who are expecting you, and whom your money will console. When it's all gone, you can believe, and trust, and love again, you know! I thought you a broken toy that had lasted its time; a worthless spangle that was tarnished, and thrown away. But, finding you true gold, a very lady, and an ill-used innocent, with a fresh heart full of love and trustfulness - which you look like, and is quite consistent with your story! - I have something more to say. Attend to it; for what I say I'll do. Do you hear me, you fairy spirit? What I say, I mean to do!'
Her rage got the better of her again, for a moment; but it passed over her face like a spasm, and left her smiling.
'Hide yourself,' she pursued, 'if not at home, somewhere. Let it be somewhere beyond reach; in some obscure life - or, better still, in some obscure death. I wonder, if your loving heart will not break, you have found no way of helping it to be still! I have heard of such means sometimes. I believe they may be easily found.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "it is" is implied before "the liars."
2. I'd like to know why there is "as."
3. I'd like to know if "do" means "say."
4. And I'd like to know if "wonder" means "am surprised," and the blue "that" clause qualifies "wonder."
Thank you in advance for your help.
His old nurse Peggotty's niece Emily fled away with his best friend Mr. James Steerforth, leaving her fiance behind.
Peggotty's elder brother Mr. Peggotty has sought for her niece Emily after her leaving.
Emily's old friend Martha found out her, kept her in her lodging.
Martha led the narrator to the place, but James Steerforth's cousin Rosa Dartle arrived ahead.
Chapter 50 Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
.................................'If you live in his home and know him, you know, perhaps, what his power with a weak, vain girl might be. I don't defend myself, but I know well, and he knows well, or he will know when he comes to die, and his mind is troubled with it, that he used all his power to deceive me, and that I believed him, trusted him, and loved him!'
.............................
'SHE love!' she said. 'THAT carrion! And he ever cared for her, she'd tell me. Ha, ha! The liars that these traders are!'
Her mockery was worse than her undisguised rage. Of the two, I would have much preferred to be the object of the latter. But, when she suffered it to break loose, it was only for a moment. She had chained it up again, and however it might tear her within, she subdued it to herself.
'I came here, you pure fountain of love,' she said, 'to see - as I began by telling you - what such a thing as you was like. I was curious. I am satisfied. Also to tell you, that you had best seek that home of yours, with all speed, and hide your head among those excellent people who are expecting you, and whom your money will console. When it's all gone, you can believe, and trust, and love again, you know! I thought you a broken toy that had lasted its time; a worthless spangle that was tarnished, and thrown away. But, finding you true gold, a very lady, and an ill-used innocent, with a fresh heart full of love and trustfulness - which you look like, and is quite consistent with your story! - I have something more to say. Attend to it; for what I say I'll do. Do you hear me, you fairy spirit? What I say, I mean to do!'
Her rage got the better of her again, for a moment; but it passed over her face like a spasm, and left her smiling.
'Hide yourself,' she pursued, 'if not at home, somewhere. Let it be somewhere beyond reach; in some obscure life - or, better still, in some obscure death. I wonder, if your loving heart will not break, you have found no way of helping it to be still! I have heard of such means sometimes. I believe they may be easily found.'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "it is" is implied before "the liars."
2. I'd like to know why there is "as."
3. I'd like to know if "do" means "say."
4. And I'd like to know if "wonder" means "am surprised," and the blue "that" clause qualifies "wonder."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon 1. " No. "The liars that" is equivalent to "What liars".
- park sang joon 1.
- " No.
- "The liars that" is equivalent to "What liars".
- It's exclamatory.
- park sang joon 2.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "it is" is implied before "the liars."No. "The liars that" is equivalent to "What liars". It's exclamatory.
park sang joon2. I'd like to know why there is "as."as = like. The substitution was very likely made because the word 'like' (with a different meaning) was so close in the text
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Thank you, CalifJim, for another So very helpful answer. 
3. I think "me" refers to "What I say, I mean to do" in "Do you hear
3. I think "me" refers to "What I say, I mean to do" in "Do you hear
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park sang joonSo I was wondering how "what I mean to do" is heard.How it is heard? I don't understand the question.
I have something more to say. Attend to it; for what I say I'll do. Do you hear me, you fairy spirit? What I say, I mean to do!'
The two underlined parts above me
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I was such a fool; Thank you, CalifJim, for your enlightening me. 
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