مفهوم in his own small way

Question

Mr. Kapasi knew that his wife had little regard for his career as an interpreter. He new it reminded her of the son she’d lost, and that she resented the other lives he helped, in his own small way, to save. If ever she referred to his position, she used the phrase “doctor’s assistant,” as if the process of interpretation were equal to taking someone’s temperature, or changing a bedpan. She never asked him about the patients who came to the doctor’s office, or said that his job was a big responsibility.

 

ممکنه خواهش کنم بفرمایین جمله مشحص شده--البته لطفا همراه ذکر مثال-- به چه معناست؟

 

 

Answer 1

ظاهرا he در عبارت the other lives he helped اشاره به پسر آن خانم است که با روش های کوکانه خود سعی در نجات جان انسان های دیگر کرده است. اینطور به نظر میرسد که آن پسر برای نجات جان دیگران جان خود را از دست داده است و به همین دلیل آن زن از افرادی که پسرش (برای نجات جانشان) به آن ها کمک کرده است متنفر است.

راستی در خط اول کلمه new باید با کلمه knew جایگزین شود.