'Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however (2024)

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lumax2000

4 Jun 2016

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2. Does 'Nature' here mean 'the way that things happen in the physical world when it is not controlled by people'?

3. What does 'Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them' mean?

4. What does 'set up' here mean?

5. What does 'be possessed of' here mean?

Ps. These sentences are from paragraph3 in chapter1 of Oliver Twist.

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yifen238

5 Jun 2016

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1) It looks like this means "drunk"
2) I guess you could define it that way... I don't really know how else I could define it, but maybe my answer to #3 will help, too.
3) Baby Oliver was fighting against whatever natural force was making him die.
4) Charles Dickens really just uses too many words, haha. "Setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected" just means he was crying as loudly as possible.
5) to be possessed of = to have

'Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed,sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of theworkhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably havebeen expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.' Q: 1. What does 'who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer' mean? (4)

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@yifen238: Thanks. Yeah, he used a lot of fancy words as you said before, and it's really confused. But I am trying to understand what he is talking about to make sure that my understanding is true.

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'Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed,sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of theworkhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably havebeen expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.' Q: 1. What does 'who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer' mean? (12)

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'Now, if, during this brief period, Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no time. There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed,sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of theworkhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably havebeen expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.' Q: 1. What does 'who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer' mean? (13)What’s this symbol?

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