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What does ‘Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.’ mean?
What does ‘Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.’ mean?
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21 May 2017
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Of course haha
In English, when you say
나 아는 사람
the "는" translates like "that"
So it will read like "The person 'that' I know"
And when you say
그거 얼마에요?
The "그(거)" translates like "that" as well
So it will read like "How much is that?"
Actually, I think this passage is very difficult, even for an English native ^^'
If you take out the useless words, this is the full sentence:
"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth."
If you break it up like a Korean sentence, it will look a little like this:
(a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.)를 잊는다라는 무언가를 잃어버리"는 것이" 조금 무섭다.
So the "는 것이" here means "that"
이게 도움 됐어요? ^^
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My question is in the above passage, 'if i forget that' In this sentence, what does 'that' mean?
'Reserving judgments is matter of infinite hope' or 'a sense of fundamental decency is parcelled out unequally at birth'?
'Reserving judgments is matter of infinite hope' or 'a sense of fundamental decency is parcelled out unequally at birth'?
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"That" in this situation is a conjunction for "a sense of fundamental decency is parcelled out unequally at birth."
It is the "하는 것" that, and not the "그게" that (if that makes any sense)
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It's you, thank you very much for your reply.
Could you tell me a bit more about the last word? I'm a bit confused about it
Thx :)
Could you tell me a bit more about the last word? I'm a bit confused about it
Thx :)
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@Okasian Hello again :)
What is the last word that you are confused about? 저의 마지막 설명한 말이나 "birth"인가요?
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Of course haha
In English, when you say
나 아는 사람
the "는" translates like "that"
So it will read like "The person 'that' I know"
And when you say
그거 얼마에요?
The "그(거)" translates like "that" as well
So it will read like "How much is that?"
Actually, I think this passage is very difficult, even for an English native ^^'
If you take out the useless words, this is the full sentence:
"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth."
If you break it up like a Korean sentence, it will look a little like this:
(a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.)를 잊는다라는 무언가를 잃어버리"는 것이" 조금 무섭다.
So the "는 것이" here means "that"
이게 도움 됐어요? ^^
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@HuntingHawk thank you, it's really helpful for me :)
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
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