 #1 (permalink) Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:14 am Expression: open up |
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Hi,
Could you please help me again with the following paragraphs?
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"I forgot to ask you something, and it's important. We heard you were engaged to a girl out West."
"That's right," corroborated Tom kindly. "We heard that you were engaged."
"It's libel. I'm too poor."
"But we heard it," insisted Daisy, surprising me by opening up again in a flower-like way. "We heard it from three people so it must be true." |
1. Does it mean 'straightforwardly picking up the topic again like a flower blooms out?
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| Already it was deep summer on roadhouse roofs and in front of wayside garages, where new red gas-pumps sat out in pools of light, and when I reached my estate at West Egg I ran the car under its shed and sat for a while on an abandoned grass roller in the yard. The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. |
2. Does this 'as' mean just 'as' or possibly 'as if'?
Thank you!
Haihao |
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