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PHRASAL VERBS IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S FICTION: THE WAVES, PAGE 11

Page 11: there are three phrasal verbs on this page

1.- To seal up

Seal meaning: If you seal an opening, you fill or cover it to prevent air, gas or a liquid getting in or out.

PV meaning: It is an emphasis of to seal

USE: Completion

Text: “… SEAL UP and make entire”

 

2.- To ramble off

Ramble meaning: To take a long walk in the countryside

PV meaning: To go for a long walk in the countryside for enjoyment

USE: In an outward but unspecified direction

Text: “while we RAMBLE OFF”

 

3.- Curl up

Curl meaning: If something curls somewhere, it moves in circles or spirals

PV meaning: To sit in a comfortable position with your legs bent and your feet up off the floor

USE: Upwards

Text: ” Here Jinny if we CURL UP”

 

door. Miss Hudson. I am left alone to find an answer. The figures mean nothing now. Meaning has gone. The clock ticks. The two hands are convoys marching through a desert. The black bars on the clock face are green oases. The long hand has marched ahead to find water. The other painfully stumbles among hot stones in the desert. It will die in the desert. The kitchen door slams. Wild dogs bark far away. Look, the loop of the figure is beginning to fill with time; it holds the world in it. I begin to draw a figure and the world is looped in it, and I myself am outside the loop; which I now join -so- and SEAL UP, and make entire. The world is entire, and I am outside of it, crying, “Oh save me, from being blown for ever outside the loop of time!”

   “There Rhoda sits staring at the blackboard,” said Louis, “in the schoolroom, while we RAMBLE OFF, picking here a bit of thyme, pinching here a leaf of southernwood, while Bernard tells a story. Her shoulder-blades meet across her back like the wings of a small butterfly. And as she stares at the chalk figures, her mind lodges in those white circles; it steps through those white loops into emptiness, alone. They have no meaning for her. She has no answer for them. She has no body as the others have. And I, who speak with an Australian accent, whose father is a banker in Brisbane, do not fear her as I fear the others.”

   “Let us now crawl,” said Bernard, “under the canopy of the currant leaves, and tells stories. Let us inhabit the underworld. Let us take possession of our secret territory, which is lit by pendant currants like candelabra, shining red on one side, black on the other. Here, Jinny, if we curl up close, we can sit under the canopy of the currant leaves and watch the censers swing. This is our universe. The others pass down the carriage-down. The skirts of Miss Hudson and Miss Curry sweep by like candle extinguishers. Those are Susan’s white socks. Those are Louis’s neat sandshoes firmly printing the gravel. Here come warm gusts of decomposing leaves of rotting vegetation. We are in a swamp now; in a malarial jungle. There is an elephant white with maggots, killed by an arrow shot dead in its eye. The bright eyes of hopping birds -eagles, vultures- are apparent.They take us for fallen trees. They pick up at a worm .that is a hooded cobra- and leave it with a festering brown scar to be mauled by lions. This is our world, lit with crecents and stars of light; and great petals half transparent block the openings like purple windows. Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes of vast cathedrals. We are giants, lying here, who can make forests quiver  

 

 

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TRI-TRADUCTOR PARAULA DEL DIA: “ALEGO”

Després d’ unes setmanes de pausa, tornem amb el Tri-traductor de mots de les Terres de L’Ebre. Gràcies per la vostra atenció.

 

Delta de l’Ebre: Alego

English: Soon

Català: Aviat

Soon: If something is going to happen soon, it will happen after a short time.

Aviat: Dins de poc temps, sense tardar.

Exemple: Alego, el nostre pais serà independent

Example: Soon, our country will be independent

 

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FIRST ARROW WAY PHRASAL VERBS WORKSHOP

PHRASAL VERBS IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S FICTION:  The Waves chapter 1.

 

Our first Workshop introduces us to the world of phrasal verbs by means of studying them in Virginia Woolf’s fiction. We will go over them in The Waves’ first chapter.

It is a six hour workshop and it mainly focus on phrasal verbs formed by the following three pairs of particles showing movement and direction:

UP/DOWN; IN/OUT; ON/OFF.

this workshop takes place in Barcelona, Catalonia, and we hope it will be of use for non-native speakers and studients of EnglishLanguage.

 

The Arrow Way Team

An easy approach to phrasal verbs

More info: ealonsotorm@gmail.com

 

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DICCIONARI CATALA DE PHRASAL VERBS

Publicat el 4 de maig de 2014 per ealonso
Avui volem recomanar-vos aquest diccionari de phrasal  verbs en català.PHRASAL VERBS
Joseph S. Agro
Joan Monràs Vinyes
Edicions 62/Proa
Col. Aula, 3
Barcelona 2008

Comença el llibre amb uns esquemes molts pràctics que ens ajuden a determinar quan un verb és separable.

 

La selecció de phrasal verbs està ordenada alfabèticament i supera els 1.500-

Cada entrada té:

El phrasal verb , la traducció al català del  seu significat, un exemple en Anglès amb traducció al català, i per últim un sinònim en Anglès:

ANSWER BACK: Contestar malament, replicar
As a teacher I find there are more children who answer back than in the past.
Com a professor, trobo que els nens contestan més malament que abans.
SIN. to reply rudely

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