The meaning of the bold-faced parts
The meaning of the bold-faced parts
The passage below is from Fathoms: The World in the Whale Hardcover by Rebecca Giggs.
Bird wondered aloud if there might have been a storm-surge in the evening. Dry lightning quivered over our quarter of the city; the sky taking and retaking its own photo, fretful and adolescent. Thunder shouldered across the lawn. Somewhere it is always raining on the surface of the sea, but in the night there had been no release above the suburbs; the weather only built, the pressure turning the city’s inhabitants edgy, then drowsy.
In this short passage I have a lot of questions.
First, about ‘there had been no release above the suburbs’.
‘Release’ means ‘let go of something’, so I guess in this context that there is no release, that is, no rainfall in the suburbs.
(Am I right?)
Second, about ‘the weather only built, the pressure turning the city’s inhabitants edgy, then drowsy’.
I cannot figure out what this phrase means. But let me tell you what I have guessed.
Does ‘the weather only built’ mean it continued to rain (only in city area), and city people gets edgy, that is, restless because of rain not stopping, then they got drowsy, that is, sleepy because they hadn’t enough sleep with raining.
(I think I am totally wrong this time.)
Please give me help.
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
That is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. I only hope she was trying to sound like she needs some adolescent release herself. ) Right.
- That is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.
- I only hope she was trying to sound like she needs some adolescent release herself.
- ) Right.
- ) Right, you are wrong.
- We say that clouds build up, also that pressure builds.
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That is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. I only hope she was trying to sound like she needs some adolescent release herself.
Stenka25First, about ‘there had been no release above the suburbs’.‘Release’ means ‘let go of something’, so I guess in this context that there is no release, that is, no rainfall in the suburbs.(Am I right?)
Right.
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