Yan asks:
Could you help me with the meaning of "there is too much of it" as in the following passage marked in capital letters? What's the exact Chinese for it? Can you give me other examples?
The original goes like this: A mountain 2,000 feet high would be a horrible monster here, as wrong as a plain 400 miles long, a river as broad as the Mississippi. In America the whole scale is too big, except for aviators THERE IS ALWAYS TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING. There you find yourself in a region that is merely part of one colossal plain. You can spend a long, hard day in the Rockies simply traveling up or down one valley, you can wander across prairie country that has the desolating immensity of the ocean. Everything is too big; THERE IS TOO MUCH OF IT.
And here I have another question: does the word "as" play a contrast role in the following sentence? The original: The beauty of our country - or at least all of it south of the Highlands - is hard to define AS it is easy to enjoy. Hope I didn't bother you too much.
My comments:
Never mind the bother, Yan. Just fire away with your questions and let me handle the rest at my discretion.
That is to say, I may choose to answer your letter at length or in brief, or not at all, but the discretion must be mine and mine alone. Otherwise, I may begin to wonder if I have given you too much freedom (to write in), and freedom, you see, can be too much of a good thing.
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