Are these two sentences the same in meaning?
He had no money about him.
He had no money.
Do these above two sentences have some subtle differences? Thank you!The young man was very miserable. He had no money about him. All his savings had been stolen.
In this context, what is the difference between 'he had no money' and 'he had no money about him.'These sentences comes from a textbook. They are isolated sentences. There is no other context.
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from my understanding,
#1) because of the adverb "about", It means he had no money on him, he got no money on his body. Maybe, he had left his wallet at home before he went shopping.
#2) generally speaking, it means he was broke; for example, Over 2 years, John could not find a job, he could not buy what he wanted (e.g. a house,a car, a new computer etc), one day he told his friend " man, i always wanted to go to other countries like your for traveling, but i had no money..", it doesn't mean that he had actually no money (he might had few hundreds dollar in his bank account), but what he meant is he could barely live with what he now had (the few hundreds dollars) and he couldn't afford to buy himself something nicer
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They mean the same. But the writer being a literary expert chose the longer one. It sounds much better.
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He had no money about him. ( 他身上没有带钱。）
It means that he had money but he didn't take with it.
He had no money.(他没有钱。）
It means that he had no money.
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Thank you 一!
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