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Zuotengdazuo Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
I'm not sure about the meaning the "strain" in these sentences?
I have looked up this word in several dictionaries to know that it can mean "exceed the scope of". But I still don't understand the word when it appears in some specific contexts.
Like in the following sentence
As to the second one, I think it means "English idiom may be mangled or sound unnatual/strange".
Is my understanding right? Please let me know. If I am wrong, please tell me how to interpret them correctly.
Thank you teachers.
Like in the following sentence
For the first sentence, my understanding is that the "orders" is alway going to be disobeyed.
1. In the era of the Internet, the efficacy of the name suppression orders (I don't understand what "name suppression orders" means either) was always going to be severely strained, but some online publishers took the issue seriously.
2. When among is automatically chosen for more than two, English idiom may be strained.
As to the second one, I think it means "English idiom may be mangled or sound unnatual/strange".
Is my understanding right? Please let me know. If I am wrong, please tell me how to interpret them correctly.
Thank you teachers.
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zuotengdazuo For the first sentence, my understanding is that the "orders" is alway were always going to be disobeyed. That could be. However, it's the efficacy that was going to be strained, so it was going to be nearly impossible to obey the orders, even when everybody wanted to obey the orders — and not that anyone deliberately disobeyed the orders.
- zuotengdazuo For the first sentence, my understanding is that the "orders" is alway were always going to be disobeyed.
- That could be.
- However, it's the efficacy that was going to be strained, so it was going to be nearly impossible to obey the orders, even when everybody wanted to obey the orders — and not that anyone deliberately disobeyed the orders.
- zuotengdazuo As to the second one, I think it means "English idiom may be mangled or sound unnatual/strange".
- Yes.
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zuotengdazuoFor the first sentence, my understanding is that the "orders"That could be. However, it's the efficacy that was going to be strained, so it was going to be nearly impossible to obey the orders, even when everybody wanted to obey the orders — and not that anis alwaywere always going to be disobeyed.
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Thank you very much. But I still don't understand what the author means by "efficacy was going to be strained" ,because it is someone else who told me I should interpret the sentence as such. I myself don't quite understand the meaning of "strain" in it. So can you bother to explain it further?
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zuotengdazuostrainWhen you strain something (in this usage), you push it to its limits. It's like pulling on a rubber band. You pull it harder and harder. Or, you can say that you put more and more strain on it. If you pull too hard (if you put too much strain on it), it will break; it will snap into two pieces. "strain" is what the rubber band 'e
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Thank you so much. So the idea is that the operation was going to make itself less and less effective as time passed, so people were not willing to obey it, right?
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zuotengdazuoSo the idea is that the operation was going to make itself less and less effective as time passedYes.
zuotengdazuoso people were not willing to obey itPossibly, or they found it impossible to perform their tasks effectively even if they were willing to.
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