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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 is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
His grand aunt and her distant relative Mr. Dick came to London after her going bankrupt.
Now, He works as the secretary for Doctor Strong in his spare time, who was the head master of the school the protagonist went to.
And his bosom friend Traddles gave Mr. Dick the job of copying regal documents.
The great Memorial is his autobiography he is constantly writing.
On a table by the window in Buckingham Street, we set out the work Traddles procured for him - which was to make, I forget how many copies of a legal document about some right of way - and on another table we spread the last unfinished original of the great Memorial. Our instructions to Mr. Dick were that he should copy exactly what he had before him, without the least departure from the original; and that when he felt it necessary to make the slightest allusion to King Charles the First, he should fly to the Memorial. We exhorted him to be resolute in this, and left my aunt to observe him. My aunt reported to us, afterwards, that, at first, he was like a man playing the kettle-drums, and constantly divided his attentions between the two; but that, finding this confuse and fatigue him, and having his copy there, plainly before his eyes, he soon sat at it in an orderly business-like manner, and postponed the Memorial to a more convenient time. In a word, although we took great care that he should have no more to do than was good for him, and although he did not begin with the beginning of a week, he earned by the following Saturday night ten shillings and nine-pence; and never, while I live, shall I forget his going about to all the shops in the neighbourhood to change this treasure into sixpences, or his bringing them to my aunt arranged in the form of a heart upon a waiter, with tears of joy and pride in his eyes. He was like one under the propitious influence of a charm, from the moment of his being usefully employed; and if there were a happy man in the world, that Saturday night, it was the grateful creature who thought my aunt the most wonderful woman in existence, and me the most wonderful young man.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "there are" is omitted after "some right of way."
2. I'd like to know what "some right of way" means.
3. I'd like to know why it is "with," not "within."
4. And I'd like to know what "arranged in the form of a heart upon a waiter" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
His grand aunt and her distant relative Mr. Dick came to London after her going bankrupt.
Now, He works as the secretary for Doctor Strong in his spare time, who was the head master of the school the protagonist went to.
And his bosom friend Traddles gave Mr. Dick the job of copying regal documents.
The great Memorial is his autobiography he is constantly writing.
On a table by the window in Buckingham Street, we set out the work Traddles procured for him - which was to make, I forget how many copies of a legal document about some right of way - and on another table we spread the last unfinished original of the great Memorial. Our instructions to Mr. Dick were that he should copy exactly what he had before him, without the least departure from the original; and that when he felt it necessary to make the slightest allusion to King Charles the First, he should fly to the Memorial. We exhorted him to be resolute in this, and left my aunt to observe him. My aunt reported to us, afterwards, that, at first, he was like a man playing the kettle-drums, and constantly divided his attentions between the two; but that, finding this confuse and fatigue him, and having his copy there, plainly before his eyes, he soon sat at it in an orderly business-like manner, and postponed the Memorial to a more convenient time. In a word, although we took great care that he should have no more to do than was good for him, and although he did not begin with the beginning of a week, he earned by the following Saturday night ten shillings and nine-pence; and never, while I live, shall I forget his going about to all the shops in the neighbourhood to change this treasure into sixpences, or his bringing them to my aunt arranged in the form of a heart upon a waiter, with tears of joy and pride in his eyes. He was like one under the propitious influence of a charm, from the moment of his being usefully employed; and if there were a happy man in the world, that Saturday night, it was the grateful creature who thought my aunt the most wonderful woman in existence, and me the most wonderful young man.
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know if "there are" is omitted after "some right of way."
2. I'd like to know what "some right of way" means.
3. I'd like to know why it is "with," not "within."
4. And I'd like to know what "arranged in the form of a heart upon a waiter" means.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
1. No. 2.
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- No.
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- A "right of way" is a road or path along which the public have a legal right to walk or travel.
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1. No.
2. A "right of way" is a road or path along which the public have a legal right to walk or travel.
3. It means the same as "at the beginning of the week". "within the beginning of the week" does not make much sense.
4. A "waiter" is a kind of serving tray.
2. A "right of way" is a road or path along which the public have a legal right to walk or travel.
3. It means the same as "at the beginning of the week". "within the beginning of the week" does not make much sense.
4. A "waiter" is a kind of serving tray.
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Thank you, GPY, for your so very helpful answer. 
1. I'm so sorry for my ignorance.
I was wondering in what case "how" intro
1. I'm so sorry for my ignorance.
I was wondering in what case "how" intro
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"I forget how many copies of a legal document" functions as a noun phrase; you can think of it as similar to specifying a quantity, such as "twenty copies of a legal document", except that the speaker is saying he doesn't remember the quantity.
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