Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.

1. Pianos and models，Paris，Vienna and Berlin，masters and mistresses，are not needed by a writer.

Answer: If you want to be a musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even live in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlia. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you don’t need all this.

2. No demand was made upon.

Answer：There was no need for a writer to spend much of the family money in order to write.The word “purse” stands for money, financial conditions. Here the word “purse” is used figuratively. This kind of figure of speech is called metonymy, in which the name of one thing is used in place of that of another associated with or suggested by it,e.g. “the White House” for “the President”, “the crown” for “the king” or “the queen”.

Translate the following into Chinese.

1. regulating my steps：指导我向前走

2. the family purse ：家庭财力/经济

3. the road was cut:路已开辟出来