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Meaning of "Can't stand knitted socks"



 
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Meaning of "Can't stand knitted socks" Wed May 04, 2005 15:52 pm  Meaning of "Can't stand knitted socks"
 

Test No. incompl/inter-77 "Christmas Postman (4)", question 10

Master Richard! When will that woman realise I'm over fifty and can't ......... knitted socks!

(a) hate
(b) dislike
(c) sit
(d) stand

Test No. incompl/inter-77 "Christmas Postman (4)", answer 10

Master Richard! When will that woman realise I'm over fifty and can't stand knitted socks!

Correct answer: (d) stand

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Master Richard! When will that woman realise I'm over fifty and can't sit knitted socks!
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Could you please explain me this expression "to stand knitted socks"?

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Can't stand knitted socks Wed May 04, 2005 15:59 pm  Can't stand knitted socks
 

If you can't stand knitted socks, you don't like socks that are woven by hand.
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Can't stand knitted socks Sat Dec 24, 2005 12:36 pm  Can't stand knitted socks
 

Torsten wrote:
If you can't stand knitted socks, you don't like socks that are woven by hand.

Hi Teacher,
What does the story want to tell us in the end? Does it want to tell us the postman had bothered himself for nothing, because the lady didn't like the present?
Thank you.
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Can't stand knitted socks Sat Dec 24, 2005 13:56 pm  Can't stand knitted socks
 

Learner3 wrote:
Torsten wrote:
If you can't stand knitted socks, you don't like socks that are woven by hand.

Hi Teacher,
What does the story want to tell us in the end? Does it want to tell us the postman had bothered himself for nothing, because the lady didn't like the present?
Thank you.

Hi,

When I wrote the story, it was just to describe life as a postman - that's all!

What do you think?

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Can't stand knitted socks Sun Dec 25, 2005 17:12 pm  Can't stand knitted socks
 

"Stand" has a meaning of "accept". If you say "I cannot stand his voice", then it means that you hate or dislike his voice. I think "cannot stand" is used in the similar meaning in the test, i.e. the person does not like or accept knitted socks.
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Meaning of "Can't stand knitted socks" Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:05 am  Meaning of "Can't stand knitted socks"
 

Hi Alan,

I was really being absorbed in this narrative story-styled test, which is really wonderful!

Just out of curiosity, I would like to know in the story who took the packet and shouted out the last sentence. I thought the recipient was Master Richard but it would be unnatural for him to begin with 'Master Richard!'. Is the recipient or gift receiver or shouter Master Richard's wife?

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Christmas postman Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:48 am  Christmas postman
 

Hi Haihao,

The point is the story teller assumes that the packet is for a young boy. In fact the recipient is a man over 50 but the sender (a loving aunt perhaps) still looks upon him as if he is a child. The words in the last sentence are actuallyy said by the recipient ('Master' Richard) and he is saying the words to himself in complete disgust because the sender is still calling him 'master' and also he just doesn't like knitted socks at all.

Hope that clarifies things.

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Meaning of "Can't stand knitted socks" Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:10 am  Meaning of "Can't stand knitted socks"
 

Thank you so much, Alan, and I am sure I fully understand the story now. The plot that a supposed loving aunt took the dramatis personae as a child so that he shouted to himself 'Master Richard' is really cool!Very Happy I love such kind of tests!

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