What’s the meaning of the underlined sentences?
Reading Comprehension
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. “they rose when she entered——a small, fat woman in in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.” 

What’s the meaning of the underlined sentences?
【正确答案】:

BECAUSE OF HER SMALL FRAME, A LITTLE EXTRA WEIGHT, WHICH MADE WOMEN OF LARGER FRAME LOOK FAT, MADE HER EXCESSIVELY FAT. 


【题目解析】:划线句子的意思为:由于她身材娇小,体重稍微超重,这种体重本来就让骨架较大的女人看起来较胖,让她显得更加胖了。
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