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What does What is the meaning of “None seemed quite right at this moment”？ The whole sentence is in the second bracket mean?
What does What is the meaning of “None seemed quite right at this moment”？ The whole sentence is in the second bracket mean?
He busily tinkered with different inflections of each character—one, then the other, then back to the first again—and pondered how best to capture them in his system of character-derived sound signs. None seemed quite right at this moment. Just then, Yan barged in.
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None of the “character-derived sound signs” are performing in the way that he wants them to, at this moment.
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