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Whee....The campaign has come to an end. The final result remains unclear, but soon it will come out. Anyway, take it easy. Smile

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1.oncologist?

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The cruel and contemptuous irony with which all this was said, the controlled anger of the Don, reduced the poor undertaker to a quivering jelly(?) but he spoke up bravely again....
---Godfather

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The Congressman of the district must be petitioned. The Congressman would propose a special bill that would allow Enzo to become a citizen. The privilage all those rascals extended to each other. Don Corleone explained that this would cost money.....

I don't understand the sentence "The privilage all those rascals extended to each other"

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an oncologist is a doctor who treats cancer. I hope you aren't seeing one JB.

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Ah, it is a tough job, isn't it?

Sure, I wouldn't like to. I am sure I am now leading an increasing healthy life---Jogged everyday, cut on more fat.... Probably because I have strong motivation to live now---I have the things I want to do and I have people I want to stay with. Smile

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I am very happy for you.

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THen what about the other two?

I think I have got some idea about "quivering jelly", just a kind of feeling. Something like a coward?

Still no ideas about that sentence. What is rascal exactly?

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coward yes.

See if you can come up with an idea about rascal.

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a rascal is rascally. Coward but also a bit like a shrew or a rat. shrewd would a be a good replacement. a rascal can also be like a small cheeky child getting away with something. Reminds my of old England and Oliver Twist.

Quivering Jelly is a metaphor (as aposed to a simili which would say "he was LIKE a quivering jelly") He wasn't litterally a quivering jelly but his actions would put on ein mind of a quivering jelly.

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This is from the Yahoo Dictionary

Rascal -
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1. One that is playfully mischievous.
2. An unscrupulous, dishonest person; a scoundrel.

I've never taken rascal to imply that one is a coward.

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Shakespeare portrayed a number of rascals and Frank Harris wrote the autobiography of a near perfect example.

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The Congressman of the district must be petitioned. The Congressman would propose a special bill that would allow Enzo to become a citizen. The privilage all those rascals extended to each other. Don Corleone explained that this would cost money.....

I don't understand the sentence "The privilage all those rascals extended to each other"

Rascals refers back to the subject of the preceding sentence = The Congressman

so you can reform the problem sentence to read:

"The privilege the Congressman extended to each other"

The author is equating Enzo and the Congressman as rascals.

The congressman is using his influence to ensure that Enzo is granted citizenship. The original sentence is meant as an ironic statement which in effect is saying people like the congressman and Enzo are untrustworthy, corrupt - but the will look after each other, do each other favours etc.

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tonyf wrote:

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The Congressman of the district must be petitioned. The Congressman would propose a special bill that would allow Enzo to become a citizen. The privilage all those rascals extended to each other. Don Corleone explained that this would cost money.....

I don't understand the sentence "The privilage all those rascals extended to each other"

Rascals refers back to the subject of the preceding sentence = The Congressman

** adds Enzo to the reference back as the author is referring back to a plural "rascals"

so you can reform the problem sentence to read:

"The privilege the Congressman & Enzo extended to each other"

The author is equating Enzo and the Congressman as rascals.

The congressman is using his influence to ensure that Enzo is granted citizenship. The original sentence is meant as an ironic statement which in effect is saying people like the congressman and Enzo are untrustworthy, corrupt - but the will look after each other, do each other favours etc.

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Hey, why rascals=Congressmen+Enzo not Congressmen+Congressman? "The privilege all those rascals extended to each other"="The privilege all the congressmen extended to each other"

Enzo was portrayed positively in the book undoutebly.

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I cannot find the word haver in my Collins Co-biuld dictionary. It is used to describe general Von Kluge (Rommel's successor as the commander of B army group)

Yesterday I was ASTNOISHED to find that, Clary's real name, was formally written among the foreign authers of my current English textbook. Can you imagine what kind of feeling I could have? Very Happy

JB

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Really, which textbook is that?

The thing about havering, JB petal, is that it is nearly always used like that - in the -ing form. But you mustn't rely on Cobuild... although it was mostly done by my former boss Patrick Hanks. We Eng Lang people are a small elite!

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^JB^ wrote:

Yesterday I was ASTNOISHED to find that, Clary's real name, was formally written among the foreign authers of my current English textbook. Can you imagine what kind of feeling I could have?

JB

Pleased & proud, I'm sure, ^JB^. Wink

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It've been a long time.

In the class I encountered a question: "I have never had such problems _____ I cannot find any means to solve ". I filled in the blank with "that". But the teacher told me I could only use "as" since "such as" is a fixed use.
Is that right? I doubt it.

And also what is a "maypole"?

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Yes and no. The sentence seems very clumsy and not at all English. Technically, the phrase works. Better known might be "We are such things as dreams are made on/And our little life is rounded with a sleep.' When it's Shakespeare, it sounds natural.
So it's an old-fashioned use; is that in Integrated English??!! Even though we wrote it in the 80s, it shouldn't be that archaic. But yes, 'that' is wrong. 'Such that' is a phrase meaning 'with the result that' - 'He had such a lot of pain that he lost consciousness.' or even: 'He had a lot of pain, such that he lost consciousness.'

A maypole is a tall pole set up, typically on a village green, and adorned with long ribbons - in May. Traditional maypole dancing involves young people taking the ribbons and dancing around the pole on May 1st. It's an ancient fertility rite, and was banned by such religious bigots as Oliver Cromwell (note the structure!)
Here it is at a modern wedding:

http://www.musicalhome.com/wedding/maypole_dancing_2_10502.jpg

It's also used for a very tall person - again in Shakespeare 'thou painted maypole!'

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Thanks Clary. Explaining 'such that' as 'as a result of that' makes sense a lot. (not in Integrated English certainly. Just amid numerus volumes of exercise papers :wink: )

Here again is a grammatically tricky sentence:

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Packing materials also appear near the ear canals and in the sinus cavities and plugs close the nostrils.

It's about King Tut's mummy. Which I don't quite understand is the use of "plugs" here. Is its subject "packing materials"?

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