Would you please simply tell me what can be inferred from the phrase between the stars in these 3 statenents?

Question

1--They watching the number of weights Frau Balek had to throw on the scale before the swinging pointer came to the rest exactly over the black line, **that thin line of justice which had to be redrawn every year**.



2--When my grandfather's parents had gone out as small children to gather mushrooms and sell them in order that **they might season the meat of the rich people of Prague or be backed into game pies**, it had never occurred to anyone to break this law.


3--what they had spun **could be measured by the yard**

Answer 1

Number 2 implies that the people were very poor. They couldn't buy food.

They went out into the woods gathering mushrooms. They would either sell the mushrooms to the rich people, or bake them into 'game pies' for their own meals.

There is a contrast between 'meat of the rich people' and 'game pies'.

The rich people were able to buy fine cuts of meat. The poor people had to eat whatever type of wild animal they could catch themselves ('game').

In Number 3, 'measured by the yard' means that there is a lot of whatever you are measuring. A yard is about the length of an adult's arm.

Answer 2

1. The limit was changed year after year
2. "game" refers to wild animals hunted for food
3. a yard is a unit of British measurement - just short of a metre.

Answer 3

i need it in its context YOU MORON