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Toriyaki
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:05 pm
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Here is a sentence:
Yet it needed the song of those cicadas to break a white-haired prisoner's
heart...
How to understand "yet" here ? I am not sure at all... Could someone help ?
Thank you.
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Einde O'Callaghan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:42 pm
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Toriyaki wrote:
| Quote: | Here is a sentence:
Yet it needed the song of those cicadas to break a white-haired prisoner's
heart...
How to understand "yet" here ? I am not sure at all... Could someone help ?
It's referring back to whatever was said before and contrasting that |
with the statement in this sentence. To interpret it fully we really
need to know what was said before.
Regards, Einde O'Callaghan |
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Rob Kerr
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| Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:01 pm
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"Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@planet-interkom.de> wrote in message
news:2qr61sF12gn9kU1@uni-berlin.de...
| Quote: | Toriyaki wrote:
Here is a sentence:
Yet it needed the song of those cicadas to break a white-haired
prisoner's
heart...
How to understand "yet" here ? I am not sure at all... Could someone
help ?
It's referring back to whatever was said before and contrasting that
with the statement in this sentence. To interpret it fully we really
need to know what was said before.
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We don't really need to know what has gone before to give a definition of
yet in this particular sentence, however...
"Yet," in this context, means "Even though what was said before is true..."
Rob Kerr
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Luke
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| Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:23 am
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Toriyaki wrote:
| Quote: | Here is a sentence:
Yet it needed the song of those cicadas to break a white-haired prisoner's
heart...
How to understand "yet" here ? I am not sure at all... Could someone help ?
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Replace with "But".
-Luke |
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Toriyaki
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:56 pm
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| Quote: | We don't really need to know what has gone before to give a definition of
yet in this particular sentence, however...
"Yet," in this context, means "Even though what was said before is
true..."
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Thank you all for your help ! It's very kind from you.
In case, here is the first sentence:
"While the year sinks westward, I hear a cicada
Bid me to be resolute here in my cell,
Yet it needed..." (from a Witter Bynner's translation)
So just replacing "yet" by "but" is ok ? |
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Luke
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| Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:45 pm
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Toriyaki wrote:
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So just replacing "yet" by "but" is ok ?
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In this context, yes!
-Luke |
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Toriyaki
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:45 pm
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Thank you !
"Luke" <lpgmx@f2s.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Toriyaki wrote:
So just replacing "yet" by "but" is ok ?
In this context, yes!
-Luke |
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moi
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:11 am
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I think that "and" would be better than 'but' in this context
While the year sinks westward, I hear a cicada
Bid me to be resolute here in my cell,
And it needed the song of those cicadas to break a white-haired prisoner's
heart...
"Toriyaki" <anonymous@antispam.com> wrote in message
news:cietvb$fe6$1@news-reader3.wanadoo.fr...
| Quote: | We don't really need to know what has gone before to give a definition of
yet in this particular sentence, however...
"Yet," in this context, means "Even though what was said before is
true..."
Thank you all for your help ! It's very kind from you.
In case, here is the first sentence:
"While the year sinks westward, I hear a cicada
Bid me to be resolute here in my cell,
Yet it needed..." (from a Witter Bynner's translation)
So just replacing "yet" by "but" is ok ?
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