Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
the gateway that leads from the row of courtyards into the open
Can any body explain what exactly the highlighted part of the following description mean? Can you explain it with pictures please?
Context:
glossy enamelled corporate nameplates are as good a walldecoration as an oil painting is for the homebody sitting in his living room, or even better; the fire walls are their desks, the newspaper kiosk their library, letter boxes their bronze statuettes, benches their boudoir, and the caf´e terrace the bay window from which they can look down on their property. Wherever asphalt workers hang their coats on iron railings, that’s their hall; and the gateway that leads from the row of courtyards into the open is the entrance into the chambers of the city.
Context:
glossy enamelled corporate nameplates are as good a walldecoration as an oil painting is for the homebody sitting in his living room, or even better; the fire walls are their desks, the newspaper kiosk their library, letter boxes their bronze statuettes, benches their boudoir, and the caf´e terrace the bay window from which they can look down on their property. Wherever asphalt workers hang their coats on iron railings, that’s their hall; and the gateway that leads from the row of courtyards into the open is the entrance into the chambers of the city.
Top answer
Gateway
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In all previous sentences it is comparing a city decoration element to an indoor element. How about the highlighted sentence? Does " gateway that leads from the row of courtyards into the open" refer to a urban area and "the entrance into the chambers of the city" to the domestic phenomenon? Does "the entrance into the chambers of the city" imply the entrance of the house?
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So you say that the last sentence does not contain any comparison, yes? It just says what it says. yes?
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It does have a comparison, but it is more literal than figurative.
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