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[captain1]

Hello, I am reading a biography and I don't understand a sentence
The sentence: most often in interviews Julian Tuwim only reluctantly agreed to speak about his Jewishness.

Can you write me this in another words? Did he agree to speak or not? the word "only" creates for me a problem in understanding.
Thanks.

 

[bhaisahab]

When interviewed, he agreed to speak about his Jewishness but usually he did so reluctantly.

 

[captain1]

Someone please can write me this(Line is highlighted) ?
The Polish communist Boleslaw Gebert invited Julian Tuwim to a celebration in Detroit on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Polonia Association there. In Detroit Tuwim spoke of how moved he was to have forged a new union with the working class. "I am a child from Lodz, from the great factory city of Lodz.. and so in fact I was formed and I grew up in the atmosphere of the Polish proletariat".


What is the meaning of the line - In Detroit he spoke of how moved he was to have forged a new union with the working class ?

Thanks.

 

[captain1]

Can someone write me it in another words? its a very important sentence for me.

 

[bhaisahab]

While he was in Detroit he said that he was very moved by his renewed contact with the working class.

 

[captain1]

Just want to understand something in English, forged by the dictionary of Cambridge is to create something.

Union - has the meaning of organization.

How did you understand that he didn't want to "build an organization" with the working class?
Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

"To forge a union with" means "to create a friendship or working relationship with".

 

[captain1]

I am not a native speaker. Is this sentence combined together? is this sentence stitched together?
Can I find this sentence in a dictionary?

 

[emsr2d2]

Ngram result for "forge a union" is HERE.

 

[captain1]

What is supposed to be? :-?

 

[Rover_KE]

Have you clicked on HERE?

 

[captain1]

Yes, its a graph. But without definition of the meaning It doesn't tell me anything.
I don't understand what I am seeing.

What this graph refers to?

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Ems has already said that "To forge a union with" means "to create a friendship or working relationship with".

Not a teacher nor a native speaker.

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes, its a graph. But without ​the definition of the [STRIKE]meaning[/STRIKE] phrase, it doesn't tell me anything.
I don't understand what I am seeing.

What does this graph [STRIKE]refers[/STRIKE] ​refer to?

It tells you the frequency with which a word or phrase has been used in thousands of books over a certain number of years. As Boris Tatarenko said, I already gave you the meaning.

 

[captain1]

Ems has already said that "To forge a union with" means "to create a friendship or working relationship with".

Not a teacher nor a native speaker.

I meant to the graph!!
I don't understand how the graph helps me in understanding. The frequency tells nothing. I have wanted to see this sentence in the dictionaries.

 

[captain1]

I did it.
The results - forged by the dictionary of Cambridge is to create something.

Union - has the meaning of organization.

We combined them and we get "to create an organization".

 

[TheParser]

How do you know that he didn't want to "build an organization" with the working class?

***** NOT A TEACHER *****

Hello, Captain:

We once had a president who was famous for saying, "I feel your pain." I feel yours.

In fact, "to forge a union" could mean to "build an organization" for the working class.

But remember what the teachers tell us: Context is king in English.

If you look at a really good dictonary, you will see that many words have many different meanings -- depending on the context.

1. Mr. Tuwim "was moved." You know that this "move" does not mean to go from one place to another. You know that it means that some event has touched your heart. That you have a great sympathy for something. People are often moved by words.

2. "Forge" in this context seems to mean something like "to establish."


3. "Union" in this context seems to mean something like "harmony" or "agreement." (Thanks to The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2001).