Dear teacher,
As a casual student of microbiology, I find it hard to escape the absurdity here. This woman is, like any human being, home to hundreds of trillions of bacteria. Bacteria make up a solid third, by weight, of the contents of her intestines.
If you were to sneak into her bathroom while she was showering - and based on my general impression of this woman from the advertisement, I don't recommend this - and secret away a teaspoon of the water at her feet, you would find some 820 billion bacteria. Bacteria are unavoidably, inevitably - and, usually, utterly benignly - a part of our world. (Statistics courtesy of a University of Arizona microbiologist, Dr. Charles P. Gerba, a man who gave his son the middle name Escherichia, the E in E. coli.)
Q : I think "secret away" functions as a verb phrase.
"secret(as an adverb like "secretly") + away(as a main verb like "take").
secret away a teaspoon of the water at her feet
=> secretly take a teaspoon of the water at her feet.
What do you think?
secret away?
Moderator: Alan
