A little bit of fantasy However, Nick did not hear him. He ran at Sam like a gone out of control locomotive, they disappeared in the forest with a terrible smashing and uprooting trees on their way. I could hear a sound of a furious battle, and jumped up I darted here and there biting my lower lip. Suddenly having broken some pine trees, Nick's body flew out of the forest and crashed into a rocky little hill with much noise. After him came Sam, giving him no time to come to his senses, he pressed him against the rock with one hand and placed another on the stones so that they became red as glowing coals, and Nick cried. Suddenly he was tossed aside by a powerful stream of air. He and Nick looked surprised at the opposite direction, and I turned. Along the glade, gracefully walking, a fragile small girl in a white fluffy dress was approaching. A mop of the red hair flowed upon her shoulders. Blue eyes measuring them with anger were looking under her frowning brows.

Do I understand it correctly? Could anyone (German native speaker) help me, if I understand the sentence correctly? Here is the sentence : "der Kaufgegenstand zuvor in einem Betrieb, der für den Käufer erkennbar vom Hersteller für die Betreuung nicht anerkannt war, unsachgemäß instandgesetzt, gewartet oder gepflegt worden ist und der Käufer dies erkennen musste". Does the phrase "der Käufer dies erkennen musste" mean that it was impossible that the Buyer did not know about the state of the auto (that it was obvious not to know about that)?

What does the word refer to? Could anyone from the native German speakers help me to understand to what word "ES"(in the last sentence of the paragraph) refers to in the paragraph "Der Leasinggeber verzichtet im Falle eines Diebstahls des Fahrzeugs oder eines Totalschadens auf die Differenz zwischen Ablösewert und Wiederbeschaffungswert, wenn die Versicherungsleistung binnen drei (3) Monaten (ab Schadenstag) bei ihm eingeht. Ein Totalschaden im Sinne von Satz 1 liegt vor, wenn die Reparaturkosten (netto) den Wiederbeschaffungswert (netto) übersteigen; eine eventuelle Wertminderung des Fahrzeugs bleibt hierbei unberücksichtigt. Anderenfalls verbleibt ES bei der Fälligkeit des Ablösewertes gemäß Abs. X Ziff. 61. V. m. Abs. XV der AGB."?

What does this sentence mean? Could anyone (native German speaker please) help me with the sentence "Der Leasingnehmer ist auch über das Vertragsende hinaus ermächtigt und verpflichtet, alle fahrzeugbezogenen Ansprüche aus einem Schadenfall im eigenen Namen und auf eigene Kosten geltend zu machen"? I don't quite understand the meaning of the phrase "über das Vertragsende hinaus", is it "after the agreement expures" or I understood it incorrectly? And the next part - "geltend zu machen" - does it mean "to compensate, redeem"? Could anyone please explain the sentence? Thanks in advance for your help.

a go-to-hell air and black number - what does this mean? Here is an extract fron the book and I don't understand the sentence with "go-to-hell air" and "black number". there’s a go-to-hell air about it that doesn’t attend the prudent black number - what does it mean? After extensive and really quite impressive research, John T. Molloy has discovered that in raincoat colors beige far outranks black, olive, or dark blue. The black raincoat proves to be, indeed, a highly trustworthy prole sign. Thus Molloy exhorts his prole readers ambitious to acquire an upper-middle-class look to equip themselves with beige raincoats as soon as possible. The implication of beige, one supposes, is that it advertises one’s greater carelessness about the risk of stains: there’s a go-to-hell air about it that doesn’t attend the prudent black number. You will not be at all surprised now to hear that in I Love Lucy the raincoat worn by Ricky Ricardo is black.

whose usages all of us - help me to understand the meaning What does the phrase "whose usages all of us" mean? This is the whole sentence. The meaning of the sentence is clear except gor this phrase. "In the Southwest, a place whose usages all of us are apparently expected to embrace in order to avoid “elitism,” a popular high-prole family entertainment in the evening is going out to the car wash, with a stop-in at the local franchised food establishment on the way home."

will need to know no more - could you explain what it means? There is one more sentence in the book I am reading which is not clear to me. "It is in public schools, the postal service, and police departments that we meet terms like supervisor and inspector: the prole hunter will need to know no more". Could anyone help me and explain it?I can't understand the whole phrase "the prole hunter will need to know no more", may anyone rephrase it?

Another strange sentence. What could it mean? "So much for the great middle class, to which, if you innocently credit people’s descriptions of their own status, almost 80 percent of our population belongs." This is one more sentence which is difficult to understand correctly. Can anyone help me and re-phrase it into more understandable English?

What does the sentence "The young men of the middle class are chips off the old block." mean? Could anyone help me to understand a sentence from a book by Paul Fussell "Class". I can't understand what he is trying to say with this sentence. "The young men of the middle class are chips off the old block." The extract below contains a little more context. "Not entirely certain what social effect he's transmitting, and yet obliged, by his role as "salesman," to promote goodwill and optimism, your middle-class man serves as his own enraptured audience. Sometimes, after uttering some would-be clever formulation in public, he will look all around to gauge the response of the audience. Favorable, he desperately hopes. The young men of the middle class ate chips off the old block. If you want to know who reads John T. Molloy's books, hoping to break into the upper-middle class by formulas and mechanisms, they are your answer."