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Vincent Ding Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
Blame
0 "The port congestion is blamed partly on excessive iron ore imports by Chinese traders." 02 br
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00 The above I saw in a magzine contributed by a Chinese law firm. 02 br
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00 But I would like to ammend it a little bit from language point of view: 02 br
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00 "The port congestion is TO BLAME partly FOR excessive iron ore imports by Chinese traders." 02 br
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00 I'd like to hear your comments for my English is not so fluent. 02 br
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00 regards, 02 br
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00 vincent 0-
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00 The above I saw in a magzine contributed by a Chinese law firm. 02 br
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00 But I would like to ammend it a little bit from language point of view: 02 br
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00 "The port congestion is TO BLAME partly FOR excessive iron ore imports by Chinese traders." 02 br
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00 I'd like to hear your comments for my English is not so fluent. 02 br
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00 regards, 02 br
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00 vincent 0-
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0 I may be wrong about this, but yours doesn't seem right. 02 br 02 br 00 What do you all think? 0-
- 0 I may be wrong about this, but yours doesn't seem right.
- 02 br 02 br 00 What do you all think?
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0 I may be wrong about this, but yours doesn't seem right. 02 br
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0 First please note that the sentence means that that are too many ships carrying iron ore to be imported into China, which consequently caused port congestion (there are just too many of them just as in the case of traffic jams) 02 br
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00 On a second thought, I feel the author mistook on the causation. you know, the port congestion is the result of the so called "excessive
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00 On a second thought, I feel the author mistook on the causation. you know, the port congestion is the result of the so called "excessive
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0 Vincent, 02 br
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00 1) You've got to switch this around if you want to change from "is blamed on" to "is to blame for". 02 br
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00 X is blamed 01 u 00 on 02 u 00 Y. (Y is regarded as the cause of (the unwanted) X.) 02 br
00 Y is to blame 01 u 00 for 02 u 00 X. (Y is regarded as the cause of (the unwanted) X
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00 1) You've got to switch this around if you want to change from "is blamed on" to "is to blame for". 02 br
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00 X is blamed 01 u 00 on 02 u 00 Y. (Y is regarded as the cause of (the unwanted) X.) 02 br
00 Y is to blame 01 u 00 for 02 u 00 X. (Y is regarded as the cause of (the unwanted) X
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0 The two phrases differ slightly in meaning. 02 br
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00 The first implies that someone (a particular person, group of people, or even people in general) is doing the "blaming". They may or may not be right about the port congestion being due to the iron ore imports: 02 br
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00 "The port congestion is blamed partly on excessive iron ore imports by Chines
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00 The first implies that someone (a particular person, group of people, or even people in general) is doing the "blaming". They may or may not be right about the port congestion being due to the iron ore imports: 02 br
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00 "The port congestion is blamed partly on excessive iron ore imports by Chines
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