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Antonija Posted 20 years ago
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Hi! Can you please check it? Thank you.
Sudden development of car industry demanded/called for larger and larger amounts of petrol and better anti-knocking characteristics/properties, which conditioned further development of reffinery processes.
Sudden development of car industry demanded/called for larger and larger amounts of petrol and better anti-knocking characteristics/properties, which conditioned further development of reffinery processes.
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The word either side of the slash is fine: The rapid development of the automobile industry demanded/called for larger and larger quantities of petrol with better anti-knock characteristics/properties, which encouraged/accelerated the further advancement of refinery processes.
- The word either side of the slash is fine: The rapid development of the automobile industry demanded/called for larger and larger quantities of petrol with better anti-knock characteristics/properties, which encouraged/accelerated the further advancement of refinery processes.
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The word either side of the slash is fine:
The rapid development of the automobile industry demanded/called for larger and larger quantities of petrol with better anti-knock characteristics/properties, which encouraged/accelerated the further advancement of refinery processes.
The rapid development of the automobile industry demanded/called for larger and larger quantities of petrol with better anti-knock characteristics/properties, which encouraged/accelerated the further advancement of refinery processes.
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I think so, Antonia-- I tried to have conditioned make sense for me in this context, but I could not. Are encouraged/accelerated wrong for the translation?
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Encouraged or Accelerated have additional meanings, but they are certainly not 'wrong'. Literal translation was that the advancement of oil processing depended on the rapid development of the automobile industry. I understand it as: advancement of oil processing happened because of the development of the car industry. But I guess that was the meaning you intended to express, wasn't i
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Antonija I understand it as: advancement of oil processing happened because of the development of the car industry.
is this what you had in mind ?
advances in the oil processing industry were made in line with the development of the car industry.
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I understand it as: advancement of oil processing happened because of the development of the car industry.OK. How about these?--
The rapid development of the automobile industry demanded/called for larger and larger quantities of petrol..., which stimulated / determined/necessitated the further advancement of refinery processes.
The rapid
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