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Stenka25 Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of the sentence
The meaning of the sentence
The passage below comes from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=dUpVaIUdAL0C&pg=PT84&lpg=PT84&dq=%22Compromise+now,+you%E2%80%99ll+have+to+later,%22&source=bl&ots=Es2v5A41uC&sig=kP7qf5gBfnkxnxqS3uIhbN2l2Tk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi77qPY34rMAhUJm5QKHSkeDCkQ6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&q=%22Compromise%20now%2C%20because%20you%E2%80%99ll%20have%20to%20later%2C%20anyway%22&f=false
Compromise now, because you’ll have to later, anyway, only then you’ll have gone through things you’ll wish you hadn’t. You don’t know. I do. Save yourself from that.
I'd like to ask the meaning of the underlined sentence.
Here's what I thought.
First, I recovered the left-out parts.
Compromise now, because you’ll have to (compromise) later, anyway, only then you’ll have gone through things (that) you’ll wish you hadn’t (gone through).
Am I right?
The man who speak this statement is advising the other person that he should compromise because there is no other option and after that he should go through what the compromise would bring up even though he doesn't want to.
Am I right?
Regards.
The passage below comes from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=dUpVaIUdAL0C&pg=PT84&lpg=PT84&dq=%22Compromise+now,+you%E2%80%99ll+have+to+later,%22&source=bl&ots=Es2v5A41uC&sig=kP7qf5gBfnkxnxqS3uIhbN2l2Tk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi77qPY34rMAhUJm5QKHSkeDCkQ6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&q=%22Compromise%20now%2C%20because%20you%E2%80%99ll%20have%20to%20later%2C%20anyway%22&f=false
Compromise now, because you’ll have to later, anyway, only then you’ll have gone through things you’ll wish you hadn’t. You don’t know. I do. Save yourself from that.
I'd like to ask the meaning of the underlined sentence.
Here's what I thought.
First, I recovered the left-out parts.
Compromise now, because you’ll have to (compromise) later, anyway, only then you’ll have gone through things (that) you’ll wish you hadn’t (gone through).
Am I right?
The man who speak this statement is advising the other person that he should compromise because there is no other option and after that he should go through what the compromise would bring up even though he doesn't want to.
Am I right?
Regards.
Top answer
Am I right? Yes. Am I right?
- Am I right?
- Yes.
- Am I right?
- No, it is implied (by the phrasing "only then") that by compromising now he will avoid going through those things.
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Stenka25First, I recovered the left-out parts.Compromise now, because you’ll have to (compromise) later, anyway, only then you’ll have gone through things (that) you’ll wish you hadn’t (gone through).Am I right?Yes.
Stenka25The man who speak this statement is advising the other person that he should compromise because there is no other
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