My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility what could be so terribly wrong? But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. This is a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. The only way to survive is to open your heart. Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship-and even love-after all. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.īut everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. In the light of this information it is now possible to identify a number of key issues → On peut maintenant, à la lumière de cette information, identifier un certain nombre de problèmes clés.No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine In the light of sth (= given) → à la lumière de qch To throw light on sth → éclaircir qch, éclairer qch To cast a new light on sth → apporter un nouvel éclairage sur qch This casts light on a problem which I mentioned last year → Cela éclaire le problème que j'ai mentionné l'année dernière. To cast light on sth, to shed light on sth (= clarify) → éclaircir qch, éclairer qch The truth is unlikely to be brought to light by the enquiry → Il est peu probable que l'enquête fasse émerger la vérité. To be brought to light → être mis(e) mise au jour It has come to light that he was lying → Il s'est avéré qu'il mentait. (indicating exposure, revelation) to come to light (= become known) → être mis(e) mise au jour To see the light (of day) → ver la luz (del día) To see the light ( Rel) → ver la luz (= understand) → abrir los ojos, ver la luz (hum) He was the light of her life → era la niña de sus ojos To hide one's light (under a bushel) → quitarse importancia, ser modesto (the) light dawned on him/her → se dio cuenta, comprendió New facts have come to light → han salido a la luz nuevos datos
To come to light → salir a la luz (pública)
In the cold light of day → a la luz del día ( fig) → pensándolo con calma To shed or throw or cast light on sth → arrojar luz sobre algo To bring sth to light → sacar algo a la luz To see (a) light at the end of the tunnel → ver la salida del túnel, ver una solución al problema To hold sth up to the light → acercar algo a la luz, mirar algo al trasluz
Light and shade → luz y sombra ( Art) → claroscuro m You're (standing) in my light → me quitas la luz, me haces sombra To hold sth against the light → acercar algo a la luz, mirar algo al trasluzīy the light of the moon/a candle → a la luz de la luna/de una vela Her hair is almost black in certain lights → según como le da la luz tiene el pelo casi negro The light was beginning to fade → estaba empezando a oscurecer She was sitting with her back to the light or with the light behind her → estaba sentada de espaldas a la luz Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 light
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