I'm a french student and i have to translate that for my homework. I don't understand what it means: is she cutting her nails very short or something else?
Thank you for helping me.
Merci beaucoup.
2007-02-15 22:50:01 · 6 answers · asked by sonia 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It sounds more like a statement about construction!
Driving metal nails into a wooden board, perhaps?
Good luck!
2007-02-15 22:54:16 · answer #1 · answered by TheAnswerChicks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God, I hope so! If not, wait until the Rezko trial is over. Rezko sold political favors in exchange for political contributions. This is how he made a living, so he took some off the top. Rezko personally paid $600,000 for Obama's $1.65 million estate. When confronted about taking money from Rezko, Obama said that he had used poor judgment. I guess so. Questions: Don't you wonder if Rezko expected something form the Senator in exchange for $600,000? Do you really want a president who has such poor judgment? If the Senator could afford a $1,005,000 estate, why wasn't that good enough? Why sell your credibility for a house? BTW -- Michelle Obama makes $325,000 a year at her main job and even more money for being on the board of other corporations. (Positions that were given to her *after( Obama became Senator.) They easily could have afforded to buy that property on their own. Why did he take the money???
2016-05-24 06:22:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nails has two meanings in English - fingernail and also a metal hardware item used for attaching pieces of wood together (see image link below).
Board means a piece of wood.
De rien!
2007-02-15 23:03:27 · answer #3 · answered by Amanda 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 'nails' would be metal nails, the kind you hit with a hammer.
The 'board' would be a piece of wood.
2007-02-15 23:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by hecarte_1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, "drove" also means "pounded" or "hammered" using some object, such as a hammer. Nails are metal spikes used to join two objects together, as horshoes to a horse's hoof.
So, she hammered spikes into a wooden object, and the process went easily.
2007-02-15 23:00:25 · answer #5 · answered by Allan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it seems to be about driving nails of the pointy metal variety into a board, probably of wood, and that she did it easily
2007-02-15 23:05:05 · answer #6 · answered by implosion13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋