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Andrei Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Ring with cheers

0 Susan Hibbert was one of the first people to know that World War II in Europe was over. 02br
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00Long before the countries that had been locked in the struggle against Nazi Germany rang with cheers of victory, Susan, a young sergeant based in the French town of Reims, quietly celebrated with Veuve Clicquot champagne served in a tin cup. 02br
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00In May 1945, Susan was a British sergeant in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) based at General Dwight D Eisenhower's temporary HQ - a small redbrick schoolhouse in north-eastern France. 02br
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00Early in the morning on 7 May, in a windowless room in the corner of the building, Susan witnessed history being made: the full capitulation of all Nazi forces. 02br
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00As a secretary for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), she had played an essential role - typing and retyping the final surrender document for 20 hours. 02br
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00What is the meaning of 'rang with cheers of victory' in the above? 02br
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00Ring false, ring a bell, ring the changes, ring the bell, ring true etc. exist as far as I am concerned. I don't know the meaning of ring with cheers. 02br
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00Your thoughts, please. 0230hrefhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4497947.stm
  

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0 Hello, Andrei! 02br 02br 00I have just consulted with my concise oxford dictionary, and there is written as follows: 02br 02br 00ring /intransitive/ (usually followed by with, to) (of a place) resound or be permeated with a sound. 02br 02br 00I understand it as "be highly excited" "be seething with cheers".

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0 Hello, Andrei! 02br
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00I have just consulted with my concise oxford dictionary, and there is written as follows: 02br
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00ring /intransitive/ (usually followed by with, to) (of a place) resound or be permeated with a sound. 02br
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00I understand it as "be highly excited" "be seething with cheers". 02br
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0 "Ring with" is an idiom which means "filled with". Your sentence, 02br
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00"Long before the countries ............. rang with cheers of victory, Susan, ............ tin cup. " 02br
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00can be rewritten as, 02br
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00"Long before the countries ............. WERE FILLED WITH cheers of victory, Susan, ............ tin cup. "
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0 There seems to be a mixture of two idioms here: 02br
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001. "To ring with something" 02br
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00Cf. Longfellow's Hiawatha: 02br
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00'...And they laughed till all the forest 02br
00Rang with their unseemly laughter...' 02br
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00Usually 'ring with XYZ' requires an enclosed or semi-enclosed space
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0 An uncomfortable situation indeed. 0-
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0 To MrPedantic, 02br
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00I quote two examples from the OED:- 02br
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00a) The playground RANG WITH children's shouts. 02br
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00b) The village RANG WITH the joy of Christmas. 02br
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00(Example ' b ' is similar to "the countries rang with cheers of victory", or is it not?) 0-
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0 Hello temico, thanks for checking! 02br
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00Playgrounds can indeed ring with children's shouts; I would say that these generally resound from the asphalt surface and/or enclosing walls. 02br
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00Example b) seems slightly more complex than the 'cheers of victory'. For instance, 'rang with the joy of Christmas' could refer to the bells of the village
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00Nay - never say so, Mr. P. Surely the welkins would ring to hear such words![A] 0-
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0 I thought the correspondent had a slightly shaky grasp of history too... 0-
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0 ('Shaky grasp'??) 0-
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0 Let's hope she didn't spill the "Veuve Clicquot champagne served in a tin cup" . 02br
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00I'm not sure that an over firm grasp is required for romanticism. 050010id5
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