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Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / February 2004shake a crush
Hi folks :-) Yesterday I fond the following sentance and I'm not able to translate it. "he's unable to shake a crush on the kid down the street" What does it mean? especially the part "shake a crush"... Could s.o. help me? Thanks a lot Mathias >Yesterday I fond the following sentance and I'm not able >to translate it. > >"he's unable to shake a crush on the kid down the street" Having a 'crush' on someone is a colloquial term for an intense but usually short-lived infatuation. The writer is saying that he has been unable to recover from an infatuation. He's still in love with the kid down the street. Thank you John for supporting me, but I have still problems with the hole sequence. > Having a 'crush' on someone is a colloquial term for an intense but > usually short-lived infatuation. > > The writer is saying that he has been unable to recover from an > infatuation. He's still in love with the kid down the street. Here the complete sequence: "A Mind Main Character will be defined as holding onto a fixed attitude. Such a character might be suffering from a prejudice, haunted by a suppressed memory, or unable to shake a crush on the kid down the street. In each case, it is a fixed state of mind that causes the Main Character's difficulties." May I say that the Main character don't want to grow up still having the young boy inside himself? If not - which kid does the autor mean in this context? Or could it be, that the main character is not able to love a woman in his age, but young Kids down the street? You see I'm a little confused over it. Many thanks in advance Mathias > Thank you John for supporting me, but I have still > problems with the hole sequence. [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Or could it be, that the main character is not able > to love a woman in his age, but young Kids down the street? He was in love with (had a crush on) a younger person (a kid) who lived down the street. He's still in love with this person - he can't get rid of this feeling. Regards, Einde O'Callaghan > He was in love with (had a crush on) a younger person (a kid) who lived > down the street. He's still in love with this person - he can't get rid > of this feeling. I've got it! Thank you Einde Regards back Mathias Bill Bonde ( Straight invective is not satire; satire must deliberately overshoot its mark. ) - 26 Feb 2004 19:16 GMT > > He was in love with (had a crush on) a younger person (a kid) who lived > > down the street. He's still in love with this person - he can't get rid > > of this feeling. > > I've got it! Thank you Einde http://www.dramatica.com/theory/theory_book/dtb_ch_13_p4.html #begin quote (1) "A Mind Main Character will be defined as holding onto a fixed attitude. Such a character might be suffering from a prejudice, haunted by a suppressed memory," (2) "or unable to shake a crush on the kid down the street." (3) "In each case, it is a fixed state of mind that causes the Main Character's difficulties." #end quote It seems like some people are saying that the quote talks about one character who has all these qualities, but the text is really just giving you some possible qualities for any such character. Notice how quote (1) sets up a comparison between three things, the first two being similar and the last contrasting in some way. In this case, in quote (2), the change is in the use of language. We go from complex and long, technical, Latin/French derived words in (1) to a sudden shift in (2) to a low register, to slang and short words, to the base Germanic language. It's like the punch line of a subtle joke, but, in this case, the point isn't to make you laugh but to make clear the wide possibilities for these 'fixed states of mind'. They could be anything. >Thank you John for supporting me, but I have still >problems with the hole sequence. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >In each case, it is a fixed state of mind that >causes the Main Character's difficulties." Dramatica Theory Book, Chapter 13: right? >May I say that the Main character don't want to grow up >still having the young boy inside himself? Well a crush is usually considered a juvenile malady. >If not - which kid does the autor mean in this context? I would presume a young girl living down the street. But it's referring to a crush he had as a teenager that is still bothering him years later as an adult. >Or could it be, that the main character is not able >to love a woman in his age, but young Kids down the street? No, I don't think that's what's meant. >You see I'm a little confused over it. It's a little vague, but I think the phrase "a prejudice, haunted by a suppressed memory," is the clue. This is an adult whose way of thinking has been ossified by a youthful experience. He is a person obsessed, unable to change his attitude on the basis of rational decisions. A point often taught to actors playing the part of villains is that the bad guy in a drama usually doesn't see himself as bad. HE thinks he's good and it's the hero that's bad. He has a fixed attitude he can't change. Are you familiar with the character of Captain Ahab in the novel Moby Dick? That's a Mind Main character. Thanks a lot for your help! > Dramatica Theory Book, Chapter 13: right? :-) google or knowledge? Mathias PS. Are you familiar with Dramatica? |
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