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Problems with understanding some sentences
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URGENT young old / old young man
In the story (https://doclecture.net/1-11763.html) the author uses a "young old - old young - young old" chain in order to describe Fitzgerald. How can one understand it? At first it's young old man, in the middle it's old young man and in the end it's again young old man. Why is it so and what does in mean?
Thank you in advance.
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What Faulkner's book is being described here?
What Faulkner's book is being described here?
Thank you in advance!
"And what about the old drunk?"
"Faulkner?"
"That one."
"He has contacts in Hollywood and I told him that he would be a natural to write something of a murder mystery for the screen if he moved ahead in that area."
(One more body in the pool by Ray Bradbury)
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Trump's words
Donald Trump said about Adam Schiff that "he could not carry his 'blank' strap". Later, in the tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon Natalie Portman referred to this phrase, when Fallon said her a statement "insult a kid would say".
I've found that Trump couldn't say the word "jockstrap" but I still don't get this joke.
Why did he say it about Schiff, what did this phrase mean in that context and why did Natalie Portman say it in a given situation?
Is it some kind of a cultural joke? If it is, could you please explain it?
Thank you in advance
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The meaning of "night student"
Hey!
I wonder what's the meaning of "night student". Is it someone who studies at night? :D
Or this person attends uni only in order to take examinations?
Or what?
Thanks in advance
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Complaint letter
Dear dormitory superintendents,
I am writing to express my extreme dissatisfaction with the conditions and equipment in our dormitory I have been living in for 4 years.
Firstly, my 3 group-mates and I spent first 1,5 years living in one room, which was very inconvenient. We were the only one room in both dormitories who lived as foursome. You were constantly rejecting our request to split us up despite the complains, and did that only when we found mold on the wall near my bed.
Secondly, the kitchen-conditions are awful. Have you ever tried to share 2 stove with other 40 people? And why do they have to be turned off from 11p.m. to 6a.m.? Sometimes I learn the whole night and have to starve because of your wish to save some energy. I am paying for this and have a right to eat at whatever time I want to eat. I also want to add that it is quite hard to cook with only one oven working. By the way, there is even no baking tray. I know where they all are and this is the next issue about which I want to tell.
Not a young lady that has been living here for about 10 years already is picking up on all the students and we are fed up with her being here. She is not a student and has no right to stay here. Having no alternative, she can live in the 2d dormitory’s hostel but no here. I request you to kindly investigate and take action against this lady for her behavior.
By the way, I want to say a couple of words about the payment. Every year you are increasing the price but there is no a single improvement. One washing machine cycle costs 150 rubles? Really? And get rid of cockroaches and bed bugs. I am pretty sure that you have enough money for that because of the mentioned above.
I am currently in my last year and I am not afraid to lose my room. That’s why you’d better give this matter your urgent actions, or else I really will have to take legal action.
Yours faithfully,
Learner
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Was ist die Unterschied
Hallo! Was ist die Unterschied zwischen "pochen" und "klopfen", und "die Pforte" und "das Tor"?
Danke im Voraus!
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A part host
On the first Sunday after Roger’s arrival there was a great mob. Roger was very polite to the guests. He did his duty as part host like a man of the world. But it seemed to Julia that he held himself in some curious way aloof, as though he were playing a part in which he had not lost himself, and she had an uneasy feeling that he was not accepting all these people, but coolly judging them. She had an impression that he took none of them very seriously.
Whad does "part host" here mean?
Thank you in advance
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To get one’s blue
Hey there! I am reading "Theater" right now and have a question
And she was glad he'd been to Cambridge. He had rowed for his College and at one time there was some talk of putting him in the university boat.
"I should have liked to get my blue. It would have been useful to me on the stage. I'd have got a lot of advertisement out of it."
What does "To get one’s blue" mean?
Thanks!
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