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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #3
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
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In the meantime, days and weeks slipped away. I was articled to Spenlow and Jorkins. I had ninety pounds a year (exclusive of my house-rent and sundry collateral matters) from my aunt. My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "certain" means "something" here.
2. I'd like to know what "of an evening, and the evenings long" means.
3. And I'd like to know why it is "could," not "would."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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In the meantime, days and weeks slipped away. I was articled to Spenlow and Jorkins. I had ninety pounds a year (exclusive of my house-rent and sundry collateral matters) from my aunt. My rooms were engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still found them dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "certain" means "something" here.
2. I'd like to know what "of an evening, and the evenings long" means.
3. And I'd like to know why it is "could," not "would."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon 1. I'd like to know if "certain" means "something" here. No.
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know if "certain" means "something" here.
- No.
- It means 'for sure' (as if he had a lease on the rooms).
- park sang joon 2.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "certain" means "something" here.No. It means 'for sure' (as if he had a lease on the rooms).
park sang joon2. I'd like to know what "dreary of an evening, and the evenings long" means.= dreary in the evenings and the evenings were long.
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Thank you, Mr.Micawber, for another so very kind answer from you. 
It indicates ability, opportunity.
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park sang joonhy the narrator need the ability or opportunity that "he will settle down into a state of equable low spirits."So that he could live there, in those dreary rooms, of course.
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