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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analyses of a text #6
The narrator recalls his adolescence.
He visited Mr. Wickfield's, his old boarding house, then dined with Mr. Wickfield and his only daughter Agnes there.
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I took the occasion to thank Mr. Wickfield for all the friendship and protection I had received at his hands?not very eloquently, I felt too much for that, but very heartily. He made light of it in the same spirit, and said, with a melancholy kind of smile, which always became him well, that his great hope in life had been to see his daughter grow up at his side to what she now was, and yet that he could be well content to live the last five years of his life again. Then Agnes and I fell to recalling a number of little incidents which had happened in the course of those five years, and appealing to his recollection about them; and I was glad to see that he was carried away from his wine by the current of our talk, and for the time forgot it.
1. I don't think a declarative sentence can be a parenthesis.
So I was wondering if "because" is implied before "I."
2. I'd like to know what "it always became him well" means.
3. I'd like to know why the adverbial phrase "by the current of our talk" is connected with the adverbial clause "for the time forgot it." And what's more "for" is a coordinate conjunction, not a subordinate conjunction.
4. And I'd like to know what "the time forgot it" means.
He visited Mr. Wickfield's, his old boarding house, then dined with Mr. Wickfield and his only daughter Agnes there.
..............................
I took the occasion to thank Mr. Wickfield for all the friendship and protection I had received at his hands?not very eloquently, I felt too much for that, but very heartily. He made light of it in the same spirit, and said, with a melancholy kind of smile, which always became him well, that his great hope in life had been to see his daughter grow up at his side to what she now was, and yet that he could be well content to live the last five years of his life again. Then Agnes and I fell to recalling a number of little incidents which had happened in the course of those five years, and appealing to his recollection about them; and I was glad to see that he was carried away from his wine by the current of our talk, and for the time forgot it.
1. I don't think a declarative sentence can be a parenthesis.
So I was wondering if "because" is implied before "I."
2. I'd like to know what "it always became him well" means.
3. I'd like to know why the adverbial phrase "by the current of our talk" is connected with the adverbial clause "for the time forgot it." And what's more "for" is a coordinate conjunction, not a subordinate conjunction.
4. And I'd like to know what "the time forgot it" means.
Top answer
1. There is no need to assume a "because". Dashes might normally be preferable around this rather than commas, but that whole part is set off with a dash anyway, so perhaps that is why commas were used.
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- There is no need to assume a "because".
- Dashes might normally be preferable around this rather than commas, but that whole part is set off with a dash anyway, so perhaps that is why commas were used.
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- It always suited him well.
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1. There is no need to assume a "because". Dashes might normally be preferable around this rather than commas, but that whole part is set off with a dash anyway, so perhaps that is why commas were used.
2. It always suited him well.
3/4. The narrator was glad to see that:
He was carried away from his wine by the current of our talk.
and
For the time (= for now;
2. It always suited him well.
3/4. The narrator was glad to see that:
He was carried away from his wine by the current of our talk.
and
For the time (= for now;
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