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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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How to understand english
I am a graduate student. I hold more than 5000 English words.
But when I read and listen, I don't know how to understand it.
Just like the three sentences below, what can you get from the sentences?
thanks a ton.
That sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted.
Virginia Woolf’s provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics,since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.
Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold, and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience.
Mao
sicerely
But when I read and listen, I don't know how to understand it.
Just like the three sentences below, what can you get from the sentences?
thanks a ton.
That sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted.
Virginia Woolf’s provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics,since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the "poetic" novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.
Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, conduction speed, excitation threshold, and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remained negligible in significance for any possible correlation with the manifold dimensions of mental experience.
Mao
sicerely
Top answer
Well, what are you trying to read is actually high english! The first and third statement were very difficult for me to figure out. Don't feel bad if you didn't get these statements at first.
- Well, what are you trying to read is actually high english!
- The first and third statement were very difficult for me to figure out.
- Don't feel bad if you didn't get these statements at first.
- Once you read three or four times, try to sum up what you've learned of them.
- ) Something related to Biology: genetics; reproduction.
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Well, what are you trying to read is actually high english! The first and third statement were very difficult for me to figure out. Don't feel bad if you didn't get these statements at first. Once you read three or four times, try to sum up what you've learned of them.
1.) Something related to Biology: genetics; reproduction.
2) Virginia woolf announced she wanted to write a t
1.) Something related to Biology: genetics; reproduction.
2) Virginia woolf announced she wanted to write a t
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Part of the reason you're having trouble understanding 1 and 3 is that they're poorly written.
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