Clearly loving and hating

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Please check the following sentence. The sincere, courageous, clearly loving and hating, and indomitable female image under Miyazaki written is the well model the modern women should learn.

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

I have underlined some problem areas.

The sincere, courageous, clearly loving and hating, and indomitable female image under Miyazaki written is the well model the modern women should learn.

Clive

Henry74 · Answer

Since nobody picked this up, I'm going to give you my opinion, even though I'm not a native speaker.
Perhaps a native will step in later.

1) The phrase [...] clearly loving and hating, and indomitable female image doesn't for me. Continuing the list with another adjective introduced by and after the compound loving and hating is awkward, in my opinion. Said compound should end the list. If you want to keep indomitable, you can insert it before.

2) I'm not sure I would say a loving and hating figure. The first half - a loving figure - is OK, being shaped upon such phrases as a loving father. But I don't think I would say a hating father. Thus the compound, as it is, doesn't seem to work.

3) I'm not sure I understand under Miyazaki written. Do you mean in Miyazaki's novel?

4) [...] is a perfect model modern women should (learn), or [...] is a perfect model for modern women to (learn).
I'm not so sure about the verb learn here. It doesn't sound right to say that you learn a model. You can learn from a model, or you can copy, or imitate, a model. You should perhaps adjust that, depending on what it is that you want to say.

H.

[EDIT: Sorry Clive, I was typing my answer, I didn't see you had already posted one.]

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