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Who can help me to understand this sentence ? Thank you!
Mr Sandbach gazed steadily at the man, but the man, ingoring Mr Sandbach, allowed dreamy and abstracted eyes to rest on the far distance, where a locomotive or so was impatiently pushing and pulling waggons as an excitable mother will drag and shove an inffensive child.
As above,i don't know what's the meaning of the latter part which from 'where a locomotive'...
As above,i don't know what's the meaning of the latter part which from 'where a locomotive'...
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Well, there are a lot of errors in that paragraph. Ignoring those errors, it's describing an event occurring on the horizon where the man is looking. There's a car (the locomotive) moving wagons, and the rest of the sentence is a metaphor. The car is like a mother, and the wagons are like the child.
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