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Maple Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Do "negative" and "good" collogate?

0There may have been a time when war served as 01i01b00a negative good02b02i00 by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve any good at all.02br
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00What does 01b01i00a 01font00negative02font00 good02i02b00 mean?02br
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00Thanks in advance!02br
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0A generally bad thing which contains something good. 0-

  • 0A generally bad thing which contains something good.
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0A generally bad thing which contains something good. 01i00War is bad, but it can prevent the spread of evil02i00 (this is not my opinion; I am just paraphrasing your text).0-
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0Thank you Mister Micawber.02br
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00So I can see they do collocate and make sense.02br
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01font01i00........But sadly it's still very hard to translate the sentence into Chinese02i02font00.0-

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