Newguest Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Taking to/farther on/as it was
Hi
A woman was going back home to her village.
Well before she reached the first house, she turned from
the road, taking to the fields on Maverick’s side of the
road. She had walked this way three times before,marking
the course in her mind: here a gate between two fields, here
a stile, in another place a ditch crossed by a plank and in yet
another a ditch one must step across. Towards the end of
her detour she passed quite close to the edge of the wood
where Puddler Pond lay, and farther on she was near
enough to have seen, had it been daylight, the back of her
own house. As it was, she could see the lights in the houses
on the Green.
I understand it means she left the main road and walked through Maverick's fields? (Maverick is a guy who owned the fields)
I takie it to mean that she only came close to the edge of the wood where Puddler Pond was, she didn't pass the edge of that wood, but was close?
And she went further from where, if it was daylight, she could see the back of her own house?
Does the phrase "as it was" mean "From the place where she was standing, she could see ..."
A woman was going back home to her village.
Well before she reached the first house, she turned from
the road, taking to the fields on Maverick’s side of the
road. She had walked this way three times before,marking
the course in her mind: here a gate between two fields, here
a stile, in another place a ditch crossed by a plank and in yet
another a ditch one must step across. Towards the end of
her detour she passed quite close to the edge of the wood
where Puddler Pond lay, and farther on she was near
enough to have seen, had it been daylight, the back of her
own house. As it was, she could see the lights in the houses
on the Green.
I understand it means she left the main road and walked through Maverick's fields? (Maverick is a guy who owned the fields)
I takie it to mean that she only came close to the edge of the wood where Puddler Pond was, she didn't pass the edge of that wood, but was close?
And she went further from where, if it was daylight, she could see the back of her own house?
Does the phrase "as it was" mean "From the place where she was standing, she could see ..."
Top answer
I understand it means she left the main road and walked through Maverick's fields? Yes, she left the road she had been walking on, but though the fields were on his side of the road, nothing in the sentence says that Maverick owned those fields. I takie it to mean that she only came close to the edge of the wood where Puddler Pond was, she didn't pass the edge of that wood, but was close?
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I understand it means she left the main road and walked through Maverick's fields? Yes, she left the road she had been walking on, but though the fields were on his side of the road, nothing in the sentence says that Maverick owned those fields.
I takie it to mean that she only came close to the edge of the wood where Puddler Pond was, she didn't pass
I takie it to mean that she only came close to the edge of the wood where Puddler Pond was, she didn't pass
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Hi Calif
So she left the road and decided to go through the fields which were on this side of the road where Maverick lived?
So is it possible that she had been walking along the left hand side of the road and went to the right side because there was where Maverick lived and there were the fields?
So she left the road and decided to go through the fields which were on this side of the road where Maverick lived?
So is it possible that she had been walking along the left hand side of the road and went to the right side because there was where Maverick lived and there were the fields?
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Hi,
A woman was going back home to her village.
Well before she reached the first house, she turned from
the road, taking to the fields on Maverick’s side of the
road. She had walked this way three times before,marking
the course in her mind: here a gate between two fields, here
a stile,
A woman was going back home to her village.
Well before she reached the first house, she turned from
the road, taking to the fields on Maverick’s side of the
road. She had walked this way three times before,marking
the course in her mind: here a gate between two fields, here
a stile,
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