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Catttt Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary
you are just afraid that ...
The older man is the manager of a hoax chess playing machine and the younger man the operator who hides inside the machine and plays instead of it. Here, they have gone to see an exhibition of another person who presents a 160 year old woman. Do you think the highlighted bubble mean:
"you are afraid that the same foolish people are going to pay and come watch your own exhibit"
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"you are afraid that the same foolish people might one day pay money to come and watch yourself (you and not the chess playing machine)
"you are afraid that the same foolish people are going to pay and come watch your own exhibit"
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"you are afraid that the same foolish people might one day pay money to come and watch yourself (you and not the chess playing machine)
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Hi! My problem is with the certainty of the fact that "people would pay to watch him". Is it a certain fact that people will pay to watch him in the future and he is afraid of it or is he just imagining the day that the same people might pay to watch himself. I mean is he afraid of the people who will come to see his show or is he afraid of the imagination of the day he himself would become the m
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I think you're overcomplicating it. The speaker is stating what he believes or claims the second person is afraid of. That's all.
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