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Bepleased Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

About the operation language of the word---'degree'

Hi,

I have a naive ideas about the operation language of the word--'degree'.

Could any native right it to help me?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

For an example:

To what degree can they be trusted?

1. = The degree, being used to measure their honesty and worth, must reach what in which we can trust them / we can have confidence in them / we can believe in them.

2. [we have confidence in them or we trust them] is as the result of [in what degree to measure their honesty and worth] .
  

Top answer

to what degree = how far, how much, to what amount To what degree do you trust her? I trust her totally. / I am not sure - a bit, but not completely.

  • to what degree = how far, how much, to what amount To what degree do you trust her?
  • I trust her totally.
  • / I am not sure - a bit, but not completely.
  • / I think she is very unreliable.
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to what degree = how far, how much, to what amount

To what degree do you trust her? I trust her totally. / I am not sure - a bit, but not completely. / I think she is very unreliable.
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Hi

As your suggestion, the original (To what degree can they be trusted?) means that "With some degree can you allow yourself to put your trust in them? "----to complete degree or a bit or no degree.

Is what I mean up to your mind?

Thank you for a help to me.
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Hi,

Could any native speaker right my explanation to the word of "degree"?

The sentence below used for example.

[The minister expressed a degree of optimism about the state of the economy.]

Let's to see the strength of the word of 'degree': in a degree of optimisim, [a degree] used for comparing or measuring [optimism] ; so, [a degree] is a word of function to

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