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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
He fell in love with Mr. Spenlow's only daughter Dora.
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.
He just now visited Dora's best friend Miss Mill's house to meet Dora and tell his situation.
Jip is Dora's pet dog.
Dora came to the drawing-room door to meet me; and Jip came scrambling out, tumbling over his own growls, under the impression that I was a Bandit; and we all three went in, as happy and loving as could be. I soon carried desolation into the bosom of our joys - not that I meant to do it, but that I was so full of the subject - by asking Dora, without the smallest preparation, if she could love a beggar?
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'How can you ask me anything so foolish?' pouted Dora. 'Love a beggar!'
'Dora, my own dearest!' said I. 'I am a beggar!'
'How can you be such a silly thing,' replied Dora, slapping my hand, 'as to sit there, telling such stories? I'll make Jip bite you!'
Her childish way was the most delicious way in the world to me, but it was necessary to be explicit, and I solemnly repeated:
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "as to sit there" means.
2. And I'd like to know if the implied subject of "to be explicit" is the fact he is a beggar.
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is an apprentice for the lawyer Mr. Spenlow.
He fell in love with Mr. Spenlow's only daughter Dora.
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.
He just now visited Dora's best friend Miss Mill's house to meet Dora and tell his situation.
Jip is Dora's pet dog.
Dora came to the drawing-room door to meet me; and Jip came scrambling out, tumbling over his own growls, under the impression that I was a Bandit; and we all three went in, as happy and loving as could be. I soon carried desolation into the bosom of our joys - not that I meant to do it, but that I was so full of the subject - by asking Dora, without the smallest preparation, if she could love a beggar?
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'How can you ask me anything so foolish?' pouted Dora. 'Love a beggar!'
'Dora, my own dearest!' said I. 'I am a beggar!'
'How can you be such a silly thing,' replied Dora, slapping my hand, 'as to sit there, telling such stories? I'll make Jip bite you!'
Her childish way was the most delicious way in the world to me, but it was necessary to be explicit, and I solemnly repeated:
[David Copperfield by Charles Dickens]
1. I'd like to know what "as to sit there" means.
2. And I'd like to know if the implied subject of "to be explicit" is the fact he is a beggar.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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park sang joon 1. I'd like to know what "as to sit there" means. How can you be so silly as to sit there and tell me that .
- park sang joon 1.
- I'd like to know what "as to sit there" means.
- How can you be so silly as to sit there and tell me that .
- 'Sit there' means 'calmly, honestly and simply': 'just sit in that chair normally'.
- park sang joon 2.
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park sang joon1. I'd like to know what "as to sit there" means.How can you be so silly as to sit there and tell me that.
'Sit there' means 'calmly, honestly and simply': 'just sit in that chair normally'.
park sang joon2. And I'd like to know if the implied subject of "to be explicit" is the fact he is a beggar.
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