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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The analyses of a text #2
The protagonist, Philip goes to a medical school
Here "she" refers to his middle-aged friend's eldest daughter Sally.
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"You're the most silent person I've ever struck," said Philip.
"We don't want another one who's talkative in this house," she said.
There was no irony in her tone: she was merely stating a fact. But it suggested to Philip that she measured her father, alas, no longer the hero he was to her childhood, and in her mind joined together his entertaining conversation and the thriftlessness which often brought difficulties into their life; she compared his rhetoric with her mother's practical common sense; and though the liveliness of her father amused her she was perhaps sometimes a little impatient with it.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I'd like to know what "measure" means here.
2. And I'd like to know why it is "to," not "as in."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Here "she" refers to his middle-aged friend's eldest daughter Sally.
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"You're the most silent person I've ever struck," said Philip.
"We don't want another one who's talkative in this house," she said.
There was no irony in her tone: she was merely stating a fact. But it suggested to Philip that she measured her father, alas, no longer the hero he was to her childhood, and in her mind joined together his entertaining conversation and the thriftlessness which often brought difficulties into their life; she compared his rhetoric with her mother's practical common sense; and though the liveliness of her father amused her she was perhaps sometimes a little impatient with it.
[Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham]
1. I'd like to know what "measure" means here.
2. And I'd like to know why it is "to," not "as in."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon 1. I'd like to know what "measure" means here. It means thought about/analyzed/assessed.
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know what "measure" means here.
- It means thought about/analyzed/assessed.
- park sang joon 2.
- " Children often have heroes.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know what "measure" means here.It means thought about/analyzed/assessed.
park sang joon2. And I'd like to know why it is "to," not "as in."Children often have heroes. The author is saying that the girl (a child) felt that her father was no longer a hero to her.
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Thank you, teechr, for your so very helpful answer. 
2. But she is a lady, not a girl.
2. But she is a lady, not a girl.
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OK, in that case, it means that he was no longer a hero to her which he used to be in her childhood.
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