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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #4
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He invited a despicable, he think, lawyer-to-be Uriah to have some coffee at his apartment.
Agnes is his old friend and Uriah is to become the partner of her father, the local lawyer.
Mrs. Cupp is his landlady.
Agnes is his old friend and Uriah is to become the partner of her father, a local lawyer.
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I led him up the dark stairs to prevent his knocking his head against anything, and, really, his damp cold hand felt so like a frog in mine that I was tempted to drop it and run away. Agnes and hospitality prevailed, however, and I conducted him to my fireside. When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek with the room that was revealed to him, and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs. Crupp delighted to prepare (chiefly, I believed, because it was not intended for the purpose, being a shaving pot, and because there was a patent invention of great price mouldering away in the pantry), he professed so much emotion that I could joyfully scalded him.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "win" means "alongside."
2. I'd like to know "to prepare" is a parenthesis and it means "if she prepared it."
3. I'd like to know "being a shaving pot" means "since it was a shaving pot."
4. And I'd like to know if "there was a patent invention of great price mouldering away in the pantry" means "nobody had used the block-tin vessel until then."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He invited a despicable, he think, lawyer-to-be Uriah to have some coffee at his apartment.
Agnes is his old friend and Uriah is to become the partner of her father, the local lawyer.
Mrs. Cupp is his landlady.
Agnes is his old friend and Uriah is to become the partner of her father, a local lawyer.
................................
I led him up the dark stairs to prevent his knocking his head against anything, and, really, his damp cold hand felt so like a frog in mine that I was tempted to drop it and run away. Agnes and hospitality prevailed, however, and I conducted him to my fireside. When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek with the room that was revealed to him, and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs. Crupp delighted to prepare (chiefly, I believed, because it was not intended for the purpose, being a shaving pot, and because there was a patent invention of great price mouldering away in the pantry), he professed so much emotion that I could joyfully scalded him.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "win" means "alongside."
2. I'd like to know "to prepare" is a parenthesis and it means "if she prepared it."
3. I'd like to know "being a shaving pot" means "since it was a shaving pot."
4. And I'd like to know if "there was a patent invention of great price mouldering away in the pantry" means "nobody had used the block-tin vessel until then."
Thank you in advance for your help.
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There are some transcription errors. It should say: When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transports with the room that was revealed to him, and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs. Crupp delighted to prepare it ...
- There are some transcription errors.
- It should say: When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transports with the room that was revealed to him, and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs.
- Crupp delighted to prepare it ...
- Are you retyping these excerpts manually?
- It may be quicker and less error-prone to copy-paste them from an online text.
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There are some transcription errors. It should say:
When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transports with the room that was revealed to him, and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs. Crupp delighted to prepare it ...
Are you retyping these excerpts manually? It may be quicker and less error-prone to copy-paste them fr
When I lighted my candles, he fell into meek transports with the room that was revealed to him, and when I heated the coffee in an unassuming block-tin vessel in which Mrs. Crupp delighted to prepare it ...
Are you retyping these excerpts manually? It may be quicker and less error-prone to copy-paste them fr
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Thank you, GPY, for your so very kind answer and I so sorry for a ton of errors.
It may be quicker and less error-pron
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