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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.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
His grand aunt and her best friend came to London after her going bankrupt.
He encountered his best friend Agnes, who came to London to meet his grand aunt, came to his apartment with her.
Now His grand aunt tells them about her going bankrupt.
'Betsey Trotwood,' said my aunt, who had always kept her money matters to herself. '- I don't mean your sister, Trot, my dear, but myself - had a certain property. It don't matter how much; enough to live on. More, for she had saved a little, and added to it. Betsey funded her property for some time, and then, by the advice of her man of business, laid it out on landed security. That did very well, and returned very good interest, till Betsey was paid off. I am talking of Betsey as if she was a man-of-war. Well! Then, Betsey had to look about her, for a new investment. She thought she was wiser, now, than her man of business, who was not such a good man of business by this time, as he used to be - I am alluding to your father, Agnes - and she took it into her head to lay it out for herself. So she took her pigs,' said my aunt, 'to a foreign market; and a very bad market it turned out to be. First, she lost in the mining way, and then she lost in the diving way - fishing up treasure, or some such Tom Tiddler nonsense,' explained my aunt, rubbing her nose; 'and then she lost in the mining way again, and, last of all, to set the thing entirely to rights, she lost in the banking way. I don't know what the Bank shares were worth for a little while,' said my aunt; 'cent per cent was the lowest of it, I believe; but the Bank was at the other end of the world, and tumbled into space, for what I know; anyhow, it fell to pieces, and never will and never can pay sixpence; and Betsey's sixpences were all there, and there's an end of them. Least said, soonest mended!'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "more and added to it" means "there is more and that is added to it."
2. I'd like to know what "Betsey was paid off" means.
3. I'd like to know what "the mining way" and "the diving way" mean.
4. And I'd like to know "to set the thing entirely to rights" means "in order to the thing entirely to rights" and it is the humorous expression.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
His grand aunt and her best friend came to London after her going bankrupt.
He encountered his best friend Agnes, who came to London to meet his grand aunt, came to his apartment with her.
Now His grand aunt tells them about her going bankrupt.
'Betsey Trotwood,' said my aunt, who had always kept her money matters to herself. '- I don't mean your sister, Trot, my dear, but myself - had a certain property. It don't matter how much; enough to live on. More, for she had saved a little, and added to it. Betsey funded her property for some time, and then, by the advice of her man of business, laid it out on landed security. That did very well, and returned very good interest, till Betsey was paid off. I am talking of Betsey as if she was a man-of-war. Well! Then, Betsey had to look about her, for a new investment. She thought she was wiser, now, than her man of business, who was not such a good man of business by this time, as he used to be - I am alluding to your father, Agnes - and she took it into her head to lay it out for herself. So she took her pigs,' said my aunt, 'to a foreign market; and a very bad market it turned out to be. First, she lost in the mining way, and then she lost in the diving way - fishing up treasure, or some such Tom Tiddler nonsense,' explained my aunt, rubbing her nose; 'and then she lost in the mining way again, and, last of all, to set the thing entirely to rights, she lost in the banking way. I don't know what the Bank shares were worth for a little while,' said my aunt; 'cent per cent was the lowest of it, I believe; but the Bank was at the other end of the world, and tumbled into space, for what I know; anyhow, it fell to pieces, and never will and never can pay sixpence; and Betsey's sixpences were all there, and there's an end of them. Least said, soonest mended!'
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "more and added to it" means "there is more and that is added to it."
2. I'd like to know what "Betsey was paid off" means.
3. I'd like to know what "the mining way" and "the diving way" mean.
4. And I'd like to know "to set the thing entirely to rights" means "in order to the thing entirely to rights" and it is the humorous expression.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
park sang joon 1. " More = more than enough to live on. added to it -= and she added to it (by saving a little laid out in landed security = she bought real estate with her money park sang joon 2.
- park sang joon 1.
- " More = more than enough to live on.
- added to it -= and she added to it (by saving a little laid out in landed security = she bought real estate with her money park sang joon 2.
- I'd like to know what "Betsey was paid off" means.
- I'm lost.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know if "more and added to it" means "there is more and that is added to it."More = more than enough to live on.
added to it-= and she added to it (by saving a little
laid out in landed security = she bought real estate with her money
park sang joon2. I'd like to know what
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Thank you, Mr. Micawber, for yet another so very kind answer from you. 
4. Then I'd like to know if to-infinitive is used to rep
4. Then I'd like to know if to-infinitive is used to rep
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