Kapa Posted 12 years ago
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hi friends,
I have some problem in understanding a sentence in the following text:
“No such pranks with Charmaine. No blistering fuchsia kisses, no rolling around on the carpet. A month from now it’ll be “Stanley! Stan! Honey! I’m here!” in a light, clear voice, a voice without undertones: Charmaine, wearing her blue-and-white-striped shirt, so crisp, with its faint underscent of bleach and its overtone of baby-powder-themed fabric softener.
He wouldn’t have her any other way. That’s why he married her: she was an escape from the many-layered, sumptuous, devious, ironic, hot-cold women he’d tangled himself up with until then. Openness, transparency, certainty, fidelity: various humiliations had taught him to value those. He liked the retro thing about Charmaine, the cookie-ad thing. They pictured kids, once they could afford them.”
"...he like the retro thing about Charmaine, the cookie-ad thing."
"retro" here is old fashion, what about "cookie-ad"?
thank you
I have some problem in understanding a sentence in the following text:
“No such pranks with Charmaine. No blistering fuchsia kisses, no rolling around on the carpet. A month from now it’ll be “Stanley! Stan! Honey! I’m here!” in a light, clear voice, a voice without undertones: Charmaine, wearing her blue-and-white-striped shirt, so crisp, with its faint underscent of bleach and its overtone of baby-powder-themed fabric softener.
He wouldn’t have her any other way. That’s why he married her: she was an escape from the many-layered, sumptuous, devious, ironic, hot-cold women he’d tangled himself up with until then. Openness, transparency, certainty, fidelity: various humiliations had taught him to value those. He liked the retro thing about Charmaine, the cookie-ad thing. They pictured kids, once they could afford them.”
"...he like the retro thing about Charmaine, the cookie-ad thing."
"retro" here is old fashion, what about "cookie-ad"?
thank you
Top answer
retro - old-fashioned cookie-ad Old-fashioned advertisements, eg in women''s magazines. used to always show women doing stereotypically old-fashioned things like baking cookies. 'He' likes this kind of quality in Charmaine.
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retro - old-fashioned
cookie-ad Old-fashioned advertisements, eg in women''s magazines. used to always show women doing stereotypically old-fashioned things like baking cookies. 'He' likes this kind of quality in Charmaine.
cookie-ad Old-fashioned advertisements, eg in women''s magazines. used to always show women doing stereotypically old-fashioned things like baking cookies. 'He' likes this kind of quality in Charmaine.
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Cookie-ad suggests that Charmaine is like the sort of woman you might see in an advertisement for cookies, a traditional wife and mother:
"I love my husband and children, so I make sure to buy them delicious 'Bloggins Chocolate Chip Cookies'. They're the best!"
"I love my husband and children, so I make sure to buy them delicious 'Bloggins Chocolate Chip Cookies'. They're the best!"
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