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Imn00b Posted 19 years ago
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each * seemingly more * than/then the next
"His code name was Jason Bourne,but he had many identities,each one seemingly more deadly then the next."
well,this's a sentence from some sort of document in the lastest bourne movie.is the word "then" a typo?and what does the sentence mean exactly?
thank you in adv!
well,this's a sentence from some sort of document in the lastest bourne movie.is the word "then" a typo?and what does the sentence mean exactly?
thank you in adv!
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Yes-- it should read ' than '. His code name was JB, but he had many other assumed names, and each of these personae had a reputation for being very dangerous.
- Yes-- it should read ' than '.
- His code name was JB, but he had many other assumed names, and each of these personae had a reputation for being very dangerous.
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Yes-- it should read 'than'. His code name was JB, but he had many other assumed names, and each of these personae had a reputation for being very dangerous.
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thx a lot!
but i still don't quite understand the "more than the next",is it some kind of commonly used expression in english,but doesn't mean literally what it seems?because that just doesn't make sense to me.so i'm thinking roughly it means something like "each one of them is",am i right?
but i still don't quite understand the "more than the next",is it some kind of commonly used expression in english,but doesn't mean literally what it seems?because that just doesn't make sense to me.so i'm thinking roughly it means something like "each one of them is",am i right?
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Yes, you are right. In a specific use, it could well mean that each successive thing is more dangerous/beautiful/expensive etc, but since in most contexts there is usually no priority established (i.e no persona is indicated as 'first', 'second', etc), the phrase is just taken to mean that they are all dangerous/beautiful/expensive.
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