All 9 Uses of
simultaneous
in
The Bell Jar
- I tried to think of people I'd given my phone number to, so I could make a list of all the possible calls I might be about to receive, but all I could think of was that I'd given my phone number to Buddy Willard's mother so she could give it to a simultaneous interpreter she knew at the UN.†
Chpt 2
- I could imagine the sort of simultaneous interpreter Mrs. Willard would introduce me to when all the time she wanted me to marry Buddy, who was taking the cure for TB somewhere in upper New York State.†
Chpt 2
- Then I remembered Mrs. Willard and her simultaneous interpreter.†
Chpt 5
- Probably Mrs. Willard's simultaneous interpreter would be short and ugly and I would come to look down on him in the end the way I looked down on Buddy Willard.†
Chpt 5
- I sat in one of those hushed plush auditoriums in the UN, next to a stern muscular Russian girl with no makeup who was a simultaneous interpreter like Constantin,†
Chpt 7 *
- For the first time in my life, sitting there in the soundproof heart of the UN building between Constantin who could play tennis as well as simultaneously interpret and the Russian girl who knew so many idioms, I felt dreadfully inadequate.†
Chpt 7
- The more I thought about it the better I liked the idea of being seduced by a simultaneous interpreter in New York City.†
Chpt 7
- Then I turned the letter paper over and on the opposite side wrote that I was engaged to a simultaneous interpreter and never wanted to see Buddy again as I did not want to give my children a hypocrite for a father.†
Chpt 10
- But then it seemed to me it would be a step, placing him, renouncing him, in spite of the fact that I had nobody-telling him there was no simultaneous interpreter, nobody, but that he was the wrong one, that I had stopped hanging on.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(simultaneous) at the same time