What does "ex-Orthodox" mean? It means Orthodox? or Judaism? or Catholic? “Anything to drink?” Go to the kitchen before you make a huge mistake, go, remove yourself from his presence. “I’d love some coffee,” he says just when I remember I have nothing to offer but tepid tap water with a distinct metallic tang – a taste I have yet to acquire. I serve him the water in a sticky glass, which he studies at length. “Don’t worry, everything’s kosher here.” I can’t help myself. “It doesn’t bother me,” he replies with a curious gaze. “It’s been years since I bothered myself with such things.” “I have a sophisticated ex-Orthodox radar,” I explain, an answer that usually satisfies them. “You’re the first person to be onto me this quickly,” he admits. “Really?” I ask, even though I’m not surprised. “It’s so obvious, it’s like the kipah is still on your head.” And he reaches out, not to the top of his head to check if it has sprouted a kipah, but to the box behind the door, from which he pulls out the small baby doll. Am I imagining it, or has its closed eye opened slightly? “You know, this doll looks a lot like the one glued to Dina Kaminer’s hands,” he says without looking at me.

The meaning of a long sentence ,looking forward to your help! contect: My eyes bore into his, what I find inside them encourages me to continue – “Look at me, do you honestly believe I killed her? ” And once again his green gaze locks behind the thicket of eyelashes.“I honestly don’t know,” he finally says. When I bring him coffee, he’s already sitting leisurely on the couch, one leg folded underneath his youthful body, full of bendable joints. I hand him the mug, and our fingers brush against each other. “Ronit said Dina was scared of you, afraid you cursed her or something.” Good. “Then you can tell her for me to stop talking nonsense.” “She talked about it very seriously. Said that in college they called you the witch.” “Baloney,” I reply, but suddenly, the familiar song arises from the street, “Little witch, little witch fell down a ditch!” The small voices sound more menacing than usual, and despite my overwhelming urge to slam the window shut, I obviously won’t do that in front of the suspicious green gaze. “Are they singing about you?” he asks, feigning amusement, but it only makes him sound more serious. “Of course not! What are you, crazy?” “If that was your reputation in college, maybe you carried it into adulthood.” “Now you listen to me, it was a private joke between me and my friends, nothing serious, I just had… good instincts, intuition, that’s all. Like how I knew the moment I saw you that you used to be religious.” “You don’t need intuition for that, most religious people would have caught onto it within seconds.” “Or how I knew you were into more mature women.” He considers me carefully. “You don’t have to besome gifted psychic for that either.” True, certainly not with all those looks and innuendoes of yours, which at present seem to have faded without leaving a trace. But I’m not worried, cute ex-Orthodox boys like you are invariably capricious, playing hot and cold with you, expecting you to be the supportive adult,until it blows up in both your faces, because you yourself happen to prefer being the little girl. ================== He is a cop,26 years old. I am a suspect,a 38 years old woman, my exboyfriend also is 26 years old. so what does the last sentence "True, certainly not with all those looks and innuendoes of yours, which at present seem to have .........because you yourself happen to prefer being the little girl."meaning?

The meaning of a long sentence，please. context： Eli was the one who helped me realize, after hours of conversation, that a major part of my unfortunate attraction to young men lies in the fact that everything is still open before them, still shiny and fresh, even if they don’t end up pursuing any of their options – the power lying in the very promise is overwhelming. With Eli, for instance, just looking at him I can tell exactly how his life (or our shared life) would look in twenty years, down to the returns on our taxes, which obviously he’d fill out himself, because on top of his many virtues, ================== The “I” is close 40 years old，had a relationship with a young man who is 26 years old. And then they break up., the young man abandon "I". so what is the meaning of "that a major part of my unfortunate attraction to young men lies in the fact that everything is still open before them, still shiny and fresh, even if they don’t end up pursuing any of their options – the power lying in the very promise is overwhelming." Please, looking forward to your help.

The meaning of a sentence. Please. what does the "and still, we’re talking hamster here" in the conrtext mean? Please. context: “But you didn’t kill her, right?” Only Eli could produce such a sentence so matter-of-factly and calm. “And don’t tell me I sound like a bad thriller,” he adds, reading my mind, as always. I sit in front of him in his office, drinking from his Coke can without giving it a second thought. Eli’s office is my safe space, Eli himself is my safe space, this faithful, doglike friend (actually, he looks more like a hamster. A tall hamster, a handsome hamster, some might even say attractive hamster, and still, we’re talking hamster here), and if only I was able to fall in love with him, I would be the happiest woman alive. No, that’s not right, I would obviously be an entirely different person, a person who could fall in love with Eli. Regretfully – I am not that person.

What's the meaning of 'there's times a bird has it easier 'n folks, for all their learnin'，please. context: It was tiresome waiting there in the chill grayish light. When they went below, the little cabin was filled to over-flowing, and if they stayed above the damp gathered in drops on their hair and faces. Clothes clung clammily, and the Isabella B. dripped from stem to stern. Marguerite sat huddled in the opening of the hatch, her feet tucked under her for warmth and her fingers busy with knitting. Jacob and Patty sat below her on the next step, little drops forming on their short fair hair. Caleb was learning to box the compass under Captain Hunt's direction. They could hear him repeating the points over and over in a singsong that seemed almost a part of the water slapping at the ves-sel's sides and the creaking of boards and anchor ropes. "N o ' N o ' East," he was droning. "East N o ' East; East So' East; So' So' East." Agull flew overhead with a shrill cry, so low they could see its orange feet flattened against a white body, and the bright, restlessly moving eyes. "Sea gulls lookin' out for fish," remarked Ira as he came by. "Likely we'd best do the same." " T h ey are wise birds," Marguerite answered, more at her ease as she always was with him. "They need not say ' N o ' N o ' East' to know where they are going." Ira laughed so that his teeth showed strong and white in his sunburned face. "Yes," he said, "there's times a bird has it easier 'n folks, for all their learnin'." ============= So what's the meaning of 'there's times a bird has it easier 'n folks, for all their learnin'，please.

What‘s the meaning of the sentence? Looking forwand to your help. context: Becky and Susan, the six-year-old twins, were alike as two peas in a pod, a stocky pair with stiff little braids of yellow hair and blue eyes.They too wore sunbonnets and dresses of gray holland, short in the sleeve and neck but gathered round the waist into full skirts that flapped about their bare ankles. ====================== What is the meaning of "gathered round the waist "and"gathered round the waist into full skirts"?

The meaning of a sentence, thanks. context: Becky and Susan, the six-year-old twins, were alike as two peas in a pod, a stocky pair with stiff little braids of yellow hair and blue eyes.They too wore sunbonnets and dresses of gray holland, short in the sleeve and neck but gathered round the waist into full skirts that flapped about their bare ankles. ====================== What is the meaning of "gathered round the waist "and"gathered round the waist into full skirts"?

The meaning of a sentence. Please. What does “While the pulling-round process was completing itself” and“ to give her rime” mean？ Thanks. context：While I sat I stole an occasional covert look at the girl. Her clothes, or the remnants of them, were good quality. It seemed likely that beneath the smudges and smears she was good-looking. The drink gradually did good work. By the end of it she was sufficiently recovered for habit of mind to assert itself. ’God, I must look awful,‘ she remarked. She got up and walked over to a mirror. ‘I certainly do, ’she confirmed.‘ Where’ ‘You might try through there,’ I suggested. Twenty minutes or so passed before she came hack. She approximated now the film directors idea of the heroine after a roughhouse, rather than the genuine thing. ‘ Cigarette? ’I inquired， as I slid another fortifying glass across. While the pulling-round process was completing itself we swapped stories. To give her rime, I let her have mine first......

The meaning of a sentence.Thanks. Context： Great as was the public concern which followed the triumphant announcement of the first nation to establish a satellite weapon satisfactorily, a still greater concern was felt over the failure of others to make any announcement at all, even when they were known to have had similar successes. It was by no means pleasant to realize that there was an unknown number of menaces up there over your head, quietly circling and circling until someone should arrange for them to drop and that there was nothing to be done about them. Still, life has to go on and novelty is a wonderfully short- lived thing. One became used to the idea perforce. From time to time there would be a panicky flare-up of expostulation when reports circulated that as well as satellites with atomic heads there were others with such things as crop diseases, cattle diseases, radioactive dusts, viruses, and infections not only of familiar kinds but brand-new sorts recently thought up in laboratories, all floating around up there. Whether such uncertain and potentially backfiring weapons had actually been placed is hard to say. But then the limits of folly itself particularly of folly with fear on its heels are not easy to define, either. A virulent organism, unstable enough to become harmless in the course of a few days (and who is to say that such could not be bred?), could be considered to have strategic uses if dropped in suitable spots. ====================== So，what‘s the meaning of “But then the limits of folly itself particularly of folly with fear on its heels are not easy to define, either.” Thank you.