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    Message de lucie posté le 01-02-2008 à 07:11:07 (S | E | F)

    hi everybody!
    I caught up a quote in the English class,but I don't totally understand the quote "when you have lost your inns,drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England!", I just think it sounds slightly like old English,the same as the style of William Shakespeare,so I hope you can give me best a better answer.

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    Modifié par lucile83 le 01-02-2008 07:27


    Réponse: An idiom de hpesoj, postée le 03-02-2008 à 02:25:04 (S | E)
    It does sound kind of archaic, although I wouldn't say it is in the style of Shakespeare.

    What the quote is saying is that: when all the inns (pubs) in England are gone, we may as well drown ourselves, because England will have lost its identity.

    Joe


    Réponse: An idiom de xecole, postée le 22-05-2008 à 14:39:49 (S | E)
    It was in fact said by Hilaire Belloc, who was ...French!
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