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Tinanam0102 Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary
Arguing that
Hi teachers,
Four days after the Deepwater Horizon sank, an analyst at the American Enterprise Institute posted an online essay arguing that the threat of oil spills is "largely obsolete. Improvements in drilling technology have greatly reduced the risk of the kind of offshore spill that occurred off Santa Barbara in 1969....To fear oil spills from offshore rigs today is analogous to fearing air travel now because of prop-plane crashes in the 1950s." That is a target of Internet derision today. But wait for the argument to be trotted out, successfully, in the not-too-distant future.
1. Does "rigs" mean "tankers" and maybe a van in other case?
2. Does this analyst think oil spills is not likely a threat? I have hard time understand "argue that..." which could be support it, or not support it.
3. What does "That" mean?
4. Does the "argument" to be trotted out mean what the analyst was arguing?
5. Then what "trotted out" mean here?
Thank you.
Tinanam
Four days after the Deepwater Horizon sank, an analyst at the American Enterprise Institute posted an online essay arguing that the threat of oil spills is "largely obsolete. Improvements in drilling technology have greatly reduced the risk of the kind of offshore spill that occurred off Santa Barbara in 1969....To fear oil spills from offshore rigs today is analogous to fearing air travel now because of prop-plane crashes in the 1950s." That is a target of Internet derision today. But wait for the argument to be trotted out, successfully, in the not-too-distant future.
1. Does "rigs" mean "tankers" and maybe a van in other case?
2. Does this analyst think oil spills is not likely a threat? I have hard time understand "argue that..." which could be support it, or not support it.
3. What does "That" mean?
4. Does the "argument" to be trotted out mean what the analyst was arguing?
5. Then what "trotted out" mean here?
Thank you.
Tinanam
Top answer
1. -- No: the offshore drilling facility including all the equipment and the stilted platform it is mounted on. 2.
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- -- No: the offshore drilling facility including all the equipment and the stilted platform it is mounted on.
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- Does this analyst think oil spills is not likely a threat?
- - He thought that it was not a likely threat.
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1. Does "rigs" mean "tankers" and maybe a van in other case?-- No: the offshore drilling facility including all the equipment and the stilted platform it is mounted on.
2. Does this analyst think oil spills is not likely a threat? I have hard time understand "argue that..." which could be support it, or not support it.- He thought that it was not a likely threat. 'Argue tha
2. Does this analyst think oil spills is not likely a threat? I have hard time understand "argue that..." which could be support it, or not support it.- He thought that it was not a likely threat. 'Argue tha
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Hi Mister Micawber,
Thank you for your help. Can you please help me with the last sentence?
That is a target of Internet derision today. But wait for the argument to be trotted out, successfully, in the not-too-distant future.
Does that mean all the those mentioned like how oil spills wasn't likely a threat is a target of ridicule circulated on I
Thank you for your help. Can you please help me with the last sentence?
That is a target of Internet derision today. But wait for the argument to be trotted out, successfully, in the not-too-distant future.
Does that mean all the those mentioned like how oil spills wasn't likely a threat is a target of ridicule circulated on I
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Yes, but no. The same specious argument will be attempted again.
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