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… Must follow his instructions
As I was taking this quiz, I stopped at the word ‘nenuphar’. I know that, it’s Lily. Why do I know that? From this post that I put on the site about 10 months ago. It certainly seemed familiar. Another post about cleaning ponds with flowers…
If you ask anyone in my family, they’ll say I must know the rules or the instructions in order to do anything. I don’t know if that’s true. It certainly was when I was a kid. now I’m not too sure. I just do what I want.
Like continuing with this project. We’ll see what my Alliance Francais teacher says in a couple of weeks. Will they agree with what I’m building or tell me to stop immediately. If it’s the latter I might not follow the instructions.
I love this snippet for the image she paints. Here’s a man who is always living to excess, despite having money troubles, and what is more excessive than having workers to clean leaves in your garden? I want that.
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Il le compose comme il créé un tableau. Les jardiniers qui travaillent pour lui doivent suivre ses consignes.
Par exemple, un jardinier doit essuyer les gouttes d’eau sur les nénuphars et nettoyer régulièrement l’eau du bassin pour que le reflet soit toujours parfait.
He composes it as he creates a painting. The gardeners who work for him must follow his instructions.
For example, a gardener must wipe the water drops on the water lilies and regularly clean the water in the pond so that the reflection is always perfect.
The above text translated using Google Translate. Translation Link. The content in French is courtesy of Paris o’clock.
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doivent
suivre
ses consignes
doit
essuyer
les gouttes
nettoyer
régulièrement
le reflet
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