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#2 (permalink) Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:53 am Expression: "Women could not remove..." |
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Hi Tom
I don't think the sentence is that hard to understand if you are familiar with/have read about the old custom of binding feet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
bound feet = the feet of women whose feet were bound naked = bare i.e., without the bindings (from the sentence: "when the bindings were removed")
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#3 (permalink) Sat Sep 16, 2006 15:32 pm Expression: "Women could not remove..." |
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| Men rarely saw naked bound feet |
Amy, I was just thinking:
Either naked feet or bound feet
How can it be naked bound feet? I mean, if they are bound they cannot be bare or vice versa!
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#4 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:21 pm Expression: "Women could not remove..." |
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| Tom wrote: |
Either naked feet or bound feet
How can it be naked bound feet? I mean, if they are bound they cannot be bare or vice versa! |
That phrase also bothered me, Tom. Yet it's an easy way of saying 'naked feet of women who usually bind them'. I would have written 'bound feet' in one word: naked boundfeet. |
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#5 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 13:41 pm Expression: "Women could not remove..." |
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Hi Tom
As I understand things, the word bound is used two ways in this case. It is used to describe the fact that there are bindings on the feet or it is used as an adjective for feet that have suffered the practice of foot-binding.
Did you look at my Wikipedia link? There are some lovely pictures of "bound feet" there (but the feet do not have bindings on them).
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#6 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 13:47 pm Expression: "Women could not remove..." |
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Hi, Tom: Amy is right!!!!!!! I wonder if you have some knowledge about that "terrible" custom , which was very popular and common for ancient Chinese women, even it could be seen before our liberation in 1949. I'd say it is very terrible for women. They had suffered much from that, not only the constant pain but hurt in mind, women must have their feet bound when they were very young. They did that mainly for men's "evil" and "traditional" taste. I think the "naked bound feet" in your sentence could be understood that , their feet looked very abnormal, bound feet =boundfeet, like a triangel. Of course, man couldn't see them because the writer said their were still covered with long fleshes. This sentence was easy to understand , it was the story itself that man can't understand!  |
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#7 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 13:50 pm Expression: "Women could not remove..." |
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| Yankee wrote: |
Did you look at my Wikipedia link? There are some lovely pictures of "bound feet" there (but the feet do not have bindings on them).
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Hi, Amy! You are the first people who would say it lovely!!! Now, I have to understand "lovely" from an uneasy way!  |
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#8 (permalink) Mon Sep 18, 2006 14:02 pm Lovely bound feet |
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Hi FangFang
A good illustration for the word irony? 
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