AtD translation: and many began to edge away, anticipating trouble up the tracks

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Jochen, Mark and David. It makes more sense now.



On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 5:30 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think yes, Mike: expecting trouble from the girl whose mind is an open
> book for them, and "up the tracks" meaning no more than "ahead".
>
>
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:20 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thanks for the reply, Arthur. It just seems to me totally out of place
>> in
>> >> the given context, and I'm still puzzled why it's even there. Are
>> people
>> >> expecting Yup Toy to cause trouble, or is it something else entirely?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 8:05 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > "Up the tracks" refers to railway tracks, most often, but could in an
>> >> > urban situation mean subway tracks. As to "trouble", that's purposely
>> >> > ambiguous. In a Hollywood Western, it might mean Commanches about to
>> >> attack
>> >> > the train, or a gang of train-robbers a la Jesse James. In more
>> modern
>> >> > times, it could mean that the tracks have been blocked with logs by a
>> >> First
>> >> > Nations tribe demonstrating against some corporate  takeover of their
>> >> > lands. And again in an urban context, it could ne  a body left on the
>> >> > tracks to be severed by the wheels.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:27 PM Mike Jing <
>> >> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> P367.33-38   Yup Toy herself, waiting by a huge ice machine among a
>> >> row of
>> >> >> Oriental ice-girls in abbreviated sequined getups, her painted face
>> a
>> >> >> porcelain mask in the naphtha-light streaming from somewhere
>> beneath,
>> >> >> gazed, sucking at a scarlet fingernail, failing to look inscrutable
>> to
>> >> any
>> >> >> but the habitually dismissive, such as Ruperta. To others more
>> >> >> appreciative
>> >> >> of her virtues, her mind was an open book, and many began to edge
>> away,
>> >> >> anticipating trouble up the tracks.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What is this last part of the sentence about? What kind of trouble
>> is
>> >> >> being
>> >> >> expected? And what is "up the tracks" exactly?
>> >> >> --
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>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Arthur
>> >> >
>> >> >
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>> >
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