help me i dont understand
my ex has a sentence :" when he learned of his failure, he thought of quitting school"
In my book, it was translated into my language like that : "he failed the test" but i dont know why because" learned of his failure" i think it means you got experiences from your failure in the test
Is it a special meaning, form or idiom?
Thanks so much~

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help me i dont understand
my ex has a sentence :" when he learned of his failure, he thought of quitting school"
In  my book, it was translated into my language like that : "he failed the test" but i dont know why because" learned of his failure"  i think it means you got experiences from your failure in the test
Is it a special meaning, form or idiom?
Thanks so much~

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Maybe the meaning is "when he actually found out that he failed the test"?

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The term "learned of" means he received this message. In this sentence, it means "he received the message that he failed the test, therefore, he was considering of quitting from school".

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The other answerers are correct - 'When he learned of his failure' means 'When he found out that he had failed'. That was the moment when he considered giving up his studies.

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