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Profesor profesionalI always have a wood fire in my village house in winter.
"I always have a wood fire in my village house in winter."
What are the possible meanings of this sentence? I want to imagine what is happening. Like there a special thing where you put wood, the wood is burning producing heat that is spread all over the radiators. Like it is shown here http://i.piccy.info/i9/c281acd116b7a715c46bd1c2e9a321fb/1584870464/102870/1366345/kotel_na_drovah_skolko.jpg My mother lives in the village and she has a special unit where you could put either wood or coal to heat the whole house.
22 de mar. de 2020 9:51
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The system you are describing is not a wood fire. In your description, the unit where the wood burns could be called a wood-burning stove (or wood-fired stove), and the whole system of radiators could be called a wood-fired central heating system. Note that 'fire' is a verb here.
If you say 'We have a wood fire', you're describing something else. We would understand that to be a fire lit in a single fireplace that would be the focal point of a room. Something like this:
https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/g24799592/how-to-light-fireplace-indoor-outdoor/
22 de marzo de 2020
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https://www.totalswindon.com/images/content/Stock%20Images/SEASONAL/Winter/fire_ss142464652.jpg
My first immediate thought would be an open wood fire, which is associated with ‘warm’ and ‘cosy’ winter nights, as shown in this picture. The person “always” has a fire in the house in the winter, so I would assume it is an open fire for particularly cold winter nights.
Also, the writer mentions ‘village house’, which suggests it could be an old, small or more traditional house (and therefore more likely to have an open wood fire).
22 de marzo de 2020
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Sasha
Competencias lingüísticas
Inglés, Francés, Ruso, Ucraniano
Idioma de aprendizaje
Inglés, Francés, Ruso, Ucraniano
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