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absently graced

English translation: rerun playing silently on screen (no one watching)

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English term or phrase:absently graced
Selected answer:rerun playing silently on screen (no one watching)
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher

07:42 Apr 20, 2015
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: absently graced
Very much alone in the room, he drops his towel in preparation for a shower. In the corner of the room the bolted-down television plays silently, its screen absently graced by an oft rerun episode of Happy Days,but this is not the object of his attention.
alice0205 (X)
China
rerun palying silently on screen
Explanation:
rerun rather than something more up-to-date

"absently" not being watched, and no volume on sound (silently) so might as well not be there or TV could be swiched off as it would make no difference
"graced" =showing on screen/playing

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Note added at 39 mins (2015-04-20 08:22:39 GMT)
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typo: (rerun) playing (silently on screen)
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 00:11
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4 +3rerun palying silently on screen
Yvonne Gallagher
4displaying though unwatched
B D Finch


  

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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
rerun palying silently on screen


Explanation:
rerun rather than something more up-to-date

"absently" not being watched, and no volume on sound (silently) so might as well not be there or TV could be swiched off as it would make no difference
"graced" =showing on screen/playing

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Note added at 39 mins (2015-04-20 08:22:39 GMT)
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typo: (rerun) playing (silently on screen)

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 00:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 317
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: Yes, as you say, absently as in not being watched (absent audience, absence of attention). "Graced" is somewhat ironic, I feel: suits something more distinguished than a rerun of Happy Days.
55 mins
  -> Thanks, yes, I think "graced" is definitely very tongue in cheek! And a play on words as well possibly as these are not exactly "Happy Days" for characters involved
agree  JaneTranslates
19 hrs
  -> Many thanks:-)
agree  Phong Le
6 days
  -> Many thanks:-)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
displaying though unwatched


Explanation:
The programme was being displayed on the screen, but with no sound and nobody was watching it. This is a slightly poetic way of putting it.

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Note added at 1 hr (2015-04-20 09:14:33 GMT)
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While the subject of "absently graced" is the episode of "Happy Days", the adverb "absently" also invokes the absent audience as well as meaning that the programme was playing without purpose or engagement. So, nobody had deliberately chosen to play that particular programme at that particular time and in that particular place.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 01:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 84
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