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Sixth Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
Toy scares?
The following is an extract from a text which I am currently translating.
In Bodily Barm, the Carbbean setting heigtens the pervasive, eerie sense of life's foreigness:
"There are lot of things here the Rennie has no name for" Even the vegetation seems monstrously mutated:
"obese plants with rubbery ear-shaped leaves and fruit like wars, like glands" The natives are opaquely hostile.
Rennie's ignorance of local habits causes grotesque gaffes. But, for a deceptive while, everything is safely contained within the realm of astringent social comedy.
It is only with the holding of the island's first election that the toy scares which have briefly startled Renee yield to real danger.
What does toy scares in this context mean exactly?
In Bodily Barm, the Carbbean setting heigtens the pervasive, eerie sense of life's foreigness:
"There are lot of things here the Rennie has no name for" Even the vegetation seems monstrously mutated:
"obese plants with rubbery ear-shaped leaves and fruit like wars, like glands" The natives are opaquely hostile.
Rennie's ignorance of local habits causes grotesque gaffes. But, for a deceptive while, everything is safely contained within the realm of astringent social comedy.
It is only with the holding of the island's first election that the toy scares which have briefly startled Renee yield to real danger.
What does toy scares in this context mean exactly?
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Hi, In Bodily Barm, the Carbbean setting heightens the pervasive, eerie sense of life's foreignness: "There are lot of things here that Rennie has no name for" Even the vegetation seems monstrously mutated: "obese plants with rubbery ear-shaped leaves and fruit like wars , like glands" The natives are opaquely hostile. Rennie's ignorance of local habits causes grotesque gaffes. But, for a deceptive while, everything is safely contained within the realm of astringent social comedy.
- Hi, In Bodily Barm, the Carbbean setting heightens the pervasive, eerie sense of life's foreignness: "There are lot of things here that Rennie has no name for" Even the vegetation seems monstrously mutated: "obese plants with rubbery ear-shaped leaves and fruit like wars , like glands" The natives are opaquely hostile.
- Rennie's ignorance of local habits causes grotesque gaffes.
- But, for a deceptive while, everything is safely contained within the realm of astringent social comedy.
- It is only with the holding of the island's first election that the toy scares which have briefly startled Renee yield to real danger.
- Are you translating it into English, or from English?
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Hi,
In Bodily Barm, the Carbbean setting heightens the pervasive, eerie sense of life's foreignness:
"There are lot of things here that Rennie has no name for" Even the vegetation seems monstrously mutated:
"obese plants with rubbery ear-shaped leaves and fruit like wars, like glands" The natives are opaquel
In Bodily Barm, the Carbbean setting heightens the pervasive, eerie sense of life's foreignness:
"There are lot of things here that Rennie has no name for" Even the vegetation seems monstrously mutated:
"obese plants with rubbery ear-shaped leaves and fruit like wars, like glands" The natives are opaquel
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I am translating that text into Danish. I know what the different words mean but I just can't make any sense of it.
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Hi,
Good luck.
What do you think " . . . fruit like wars . . ' means?
Clive
Good luck.
What do you think " . . . fruit like wars . . ' means?
Clive
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