keannu
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- Joined
- Dec 27, 2010
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Korean
- Home Country
- South Korea
- Current Location
- South Korea
What is "getting up in the world"? Is it "make a success" or something?
EX)....It was in the spring of his thirty-fifth year that my father married my mother....I came into crying into the world. Something happened to the two people. The American passion for getting up in the world took possession of them. Being a schoolteacher, mother had no doubt read books and magazines. She has, I presume, read of how Garfield, Lincoln, and other Americans rose from poverty to fame and greatness and as I lay beside her, she may have dreamed that I would someday rule men and cities......
EX)....It was in the spring of his thirty-fifth year that my father married my mother....I came into crying into the world. Something happened to the two people. The American passion for getting up in the world took possession of them. Being a schoolteacher, mother had no doubt read books and magazines. She has, I presume, read of how Garfield, Lincoln, and other Americans rose from poverty to fame and greatness and as I lay beside her, she may have dreamed that I would someday rule men and cities......
