Commentary
1. table d'hote (a French borrowing which retains its French spelling and is italisized in
writing): means a meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) with a limited choice of courses served at a hotel
or restaurant at a .fixed price in contrast to a meal a la carte which is more expensive.
2. Himmel! (Germ.): Good Heavens!
3. Iliad: a poem by Homer describing the siege of Troy
4. Dar it is, boss: There it is, boss. This and the other sentences used by the Negro, are uttered
by a man who is illiterate and speaks broken English.
5. dope out v (Am. slang) to predict; to work or make by calculation
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |