And Martha's Vineyard is known as a fancy vacation spot for a certain kind of New Yorker. Someone who's rich, is either intellectual or aspires to intellectualism, and who has a taste for art and antiques.
Re: about some sentences & phrases
graham2007 wrote:1.Highish birth and a smooth network of appropriate connection like a tea service written into the will.
"a tea service written into the will", is there a similarity between the will and highish birth & network of connection? paraphrase this sentence in easy-understanding way, please!
2.Set to go off, my good looks and intelligence, yet exceptional still, take away my mouthful of silver spoon and lapful of luxury. Something my own, not passed on or handed down, something seized, wrested?-my good character, hopefully, my taste perhaps. What's mine, what's mine? Say taste?-the soul's harmless appetite.
"set to go off",means what in this context? need not to take my good looks and intelligence into account?
"yet exceptional still,take away my mouthful.........of luxury" does it mean"if or suppose my fortune and highish position were taken away"?
"Something my own, not passed on or handed down, something seized, wrested?-my good character, hopefully, my taste perhaps."----paraphrase:My success comes from some good qualities of my own, which couldnot passed on or handed down.I hold these characters firmly.These characters may be my taste.
say taste.----what does say mean here? it expresses possibility? or anything else?
taste-the soul's harmless appetite.-----Is there harmful appetite of soul in the world?
3.I've money, I am rich.The heir to four fortunes.
as I see, "I've money""I am rich"indicate the sameness. also, lacking a conjunction.what's the ralation between these two parts?"I've money,"so"I am rich"? or "I've money"
furthernore,I have a lot of money.
The heir to four fortunes. this is not a complete sentence, but a fragment followed by a period. what's the relation of it and the former sentences? can you paraphrase them for me?
4.Grandmother on Father's side was a Salts, whose bottled mineral water, once available only through prescription and believed indispensable in the cure of all fevers, was the first product ever to be reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration, a famous and controversial case. The government found it to contain nothing that was actually detrimental
to human beings, and it went public, so to speak.
----to be reviewed, review means check, right? why does the word detrimental typing in italic?is there a specific purpose for the author by doing this?
----it went public.means:it was reviewed harmless to human being so it was allowed to sell in public places? or "It came into the market"?
----so to speak. means"it is said so"? Am I right?
it's easy and needless to explain?? for I am not a native!
