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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
What means the following expression?
What means "Jars out"?
The sentence in which i read it was:
"Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false."
The sentence in which i read it was:
"Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false."
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"Satire jars us out of complacence" means that satire gives us a sudden shock, which causes us to cease being complacent.
- "Satire jars us out of complacence" means that satire gives us a sudden shock, which causes us to cease being complacent.
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"Satire jars us out of complacence" means that satire gives us a sudden shock, which causes us to cease being complacent.
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AnonymousWhat means "Jars out"?You're not parsing it correctly. There is no "jars out". "out" goes with "out of complacence".
Satire || jars us || out of complacence ...
jar ~ shake, shock
out of ~ from, away from
So, "shocks us so that we are no longer complacent".
CJ
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