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Hello,
Sentences below are from The Sniper by [FONT=굴]Liam O’Flaherty[/FONT]
The long June twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey.
the question is that I can't understand why the author used 'the as of' in that context.
It may be one of the most hard things to be understood to non-native English speakers
because it doesn't seems that we can explain how it is used in there by grammar.
I have already asked a professional translator about that.
he told me that 'even I don't know why the writer put the proposition phase in there so I just
paraphrased it as 'like'.
yes, I agree to that translation. and if it is translated as 'like', no problem to understand
the context.
but I would like to know his intention, what he really wanted to express with 'as of', not like or just 'as'.
Thanks in advance.
Sentences below are from The Sniper by [FONT=굴]Liam O’Flaherty[/FONT]
The long June twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey.
the question is that I can't understand why the author used 'the as of' in that context.
It may be one of the most hard things to be understood to non-native English speakers
because it doesn't seems that we can explain how it is used in there by grammar.
I have already asked a professional translator about that.
he told me that 'even I don't know why the writer put the proposition phase in there so I just
paraphrased it as 'like'.
yes, I agree to that translation. and if it is translated as 'like', no problem to understand
the context.
but I would like to know his intention, what he really wanted to express with 'as of', not like or just 'as'.
Thanks in advance.