hiromi525
Joined: 15 Jan 2008
Posts: 166
Location: Japan
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 Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: as a guilty pleasure |
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This is a passage form the novel I'm reading.
Please take a look at the line three. What does it mean?
"Well, I only subscribe to The New Yorker and Newsweek, but I regularly read The Buzz. Sometimes Time, but it's dry, and U.S. News is way too conservative. Of course, as a guilty pleasure, I'll skim Chic, and since I just returned from traveling, I read all of the travelmagazines and..." |
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CP
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
Posts: 2875
Location: California
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:58 am Post subject: |
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A guilty pleasure is a secret indulgence, not necessarily illegal or immoral, but maybe a little naughty. A dieter might take one day off per week to engage in the guilty pleasure of eating ice cream. A non-smoker might play poker once a month and engage in the guilty pleasure of smoking a ciger.
In this case, she strays from her serious reading by looking at a silly magazine like Chic.
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