Questions tagged [sentence-meaning]
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What's the meaning of this phrase in the chapter "The Last Lesson" written by Alphonse Daudet
I was reading "The Last Lesson" written by Alphonse Daudet.
In the following para:
Once some beetles flew in; but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the littlest ones who worked right on tracing their fish-hooks as if that was French,…
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"Resistance decreases with temperature". How to interpret this sentence?
If someone says "resistance decreases with temperature", is it possible to interpret the relationship between resistance and temperature? Does it mean that as temperature falls, resistance falls together? Or is it the other way round - resistance…
john
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Sentence meaning (Story- The Tiger King)
The story The Tiger King,
ends this way:
On that day father and son played with that tiny little wooden tiger. It had been carved by an unskilled carpenter. Its surface was rough; tiny slivers of wood stood up like quills all over it. One of those…
Rew
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Meaning of the sentence from Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Was"
Dirkovitch, who had devoted himself steadily to the brandy—the terrible brandy aforementioned—did not understand, nor did the expurgated translations offered to him at all convey the point. Decidedly the native officer’s was the speech of the…
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Why does "There was little pretense of objectivity." mean "there is almost no objectivity"?
Today, I am reading the book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate. In Chapter 1, the author talks about the press industry in the 18th century:
The newspapers of eighteenth-century America were raggle-taggle affairs, nothing like the highly…
yaobin
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"lose the hide and hair on him", what does this mean?
I was reading Roland's Song and I encountered this part:
stand everything, the great heat, the great cold,
lose the hide and hair on him for his good lord.
Do you know what "lose the hide and hair on him for his lord" means here?
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What is the meaning of “longer hours”
I was on the NJ transit and saw an advertisement outside our local baseball stadium for TD bank. The ad said:
“Big fans of the patriots and longer hours” - TD bank.
I can totally understand why a Bank ad might endorse the local baseball team…
Sidharth Ghoshal
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What does "I have got a witness 'set up' down the road? "mean?
set up
The context is a detective telling another detective about the case in an episode of Wandavision.
I specifically want to know what does "set up" mean here?
Djokovic
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Far From The Madding Crowd
I'm having trouble understanding the following paragraph from Far From The Madding Crowd.
Had the wife now but gone no further. Yet, perhaps, under the harrowing circumstances, to speak out was the one wrong act which can be better understood, if…
yzak
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Meaning of “the artist that perishable tissue has to think” and “with these”
Please help me understand the following paragraph better.
When standing before certain men the philosopher regrets that thinkers are but perishable tissue, the artist that perishable tissue has to think. Thus to deplore, each from his point of…
yzak
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What is wrong in this sentence
Which of these is correct "I thought she has it" or "I thought she had it"?
joseph
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What does "fights to break out over" and "get points down" mean in the two below paragraphs?
We are also very pleased with a new installation of the Go-Kart arena which is 120 square metres in area. Again the problem is the geology; we had to level the mounds on the track for safety reasons. We wanted to enable 5-12 year olds to use the…
user359539
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He was never anything but decent toward me
I saw it in the Game of Throne and I felt kind of confused about this sentence.
He was never anything but decent toward me.
Is positive or negative?
rj487
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Can some nation "approves" something to other countries?
I'm a South Korean.
Today there was an issue in Korea about what Donald Trump the US President said.
https://youtu.be/JLbLk2AUSjs?t=25
Donald Trump : They won't do that without our approval. They do nothing without our approval.
Lots of Korean Media…
jykeith
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This concerns extended sth
While the core features are free, additional functionality has to be bought. This concerns extended import/export options and rendering.
This means import/export/rendering are not free, right?
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