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Thu 11 Jan, 2018 12:50 am
It's from the Good Soldier, an English novel.
And the sentence is: "You have the facts for the trouble of finding them;"
It occurs when the narrator of the story was trying to explain to the reader how he told the story (e.g, by listing facts and details, etc). Just to help you understand it better, here's the following sentence: "you have the points of view as far as I could ascertain or put them."
I'm a bit thrown away by the sentence structure here thus don't know exactly what the author is getting at, so, I'd very much appreciate for anyone who can shed some light on this.
Any takers? Thank you in advance!
Your second sentence is nonsense. The sentence You have the facts for the trouble of finding them means that you can find out what the facts are if you will take the trouble of finding out what they are.
You will have the facts if you take the effort to find them; you have others' opinions as far as I can figure them out and state them here.
@Yang1130,
Why did you separate the sentence? The lines are written as a compound sentence.
"You have the facts for the trouble of finding them; you have the points of view as far as I could ascertain or put them."
It's clear now. Thank you all so much!
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