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Rpsh Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
make pauses in reading
Improvements represent a threat to the ways we have been organized to defeat ourselves.
Could you tell if 'the ways we have been organized to defeat ourselves' is one part? Or I should read this sentence like this: Improvements represent a threat to the ways we have been organized / to defeat ourselves.
Could you tell if 'the ways we have been organized to defeat ourselves' is one part? Or I should read this sentence like this: Improvements represent a threat to the ways we have been organized / to defeat ourselves.
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I read it as 'one part'. If I didn't want that, I'd put a comma after 'organized'. The overall meaning is rather unclear to me.
- I read it as 'one part'.
- If I didn't want that, I'd put a comma after 'organized'.
- The overall meaning is rather unclear to me.
- I suppose the context would help.
- Clive
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I read it as 'one part'. If I didn't want that, I'd put a comma after 'organized'.
The overall meaning is rather unclear to me. I suppose the context would help.
Clive
The overall meaning is rather unclear to me. I suppose the context would help.
Clive
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Here it is:
Remember that success does not come all at once. As you begin to resolve the anxieties that lead you to procrastinate, you will make progress toward your goals. As you move ahead, your conflicts about succeeding can kick up again. Improvements represent a threat to the ways we have been organized to defeat ourselves. Don’t be surprised then you take two steps forward and one st
Remember that success does not come all at once. As you begin to resolve the anxieties that lead you to procrastinate, you will make progress toward your goals. As you move ahead, your conflicts about succeeding can kick up again. Improvements represent a threat to the ways we have been organized to defeat ourselves. Don’t be surprised then you take two steps forward and one st
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Here is my understanding. Please have a look:
We have been cultivated in a negative circumstance for a long time so that we haven't realized how great we are. Improvements just like an enlightenment unveiling the mask, which makes us feel confound and be afraid of something strange emerging up from our deep inside.
Is it right?
We have been cultivated in a negative circumstance for a long time so that we haven't realized how great we are. Improvements just like an enlightenment unveiling the mask, which makes us feel confound and be afraid of something strange emerging up from our deep inside.
Is it right?
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You are a long way from the original text. Focus on the first two sentences. Can you paraphrase them?
Sorry, but I only have a little more time to spare for this thread.
Sorry, but I only have a little more time to spare for this thread.
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To touch the line of success is a gradual process. You will make advances to your goals when you start to overcome the anxieties that lead you to procrastinate.
This is my paraphrasing.
Thinking for a while, I find that maybe I misunderstand the word 'represent'. I consider it as the verbal form of 'representative' previously. Now, I think it should mean 'recall or remind'. Is it
This is my paraphrasing.
Thinking for a while, I find that maybe I misunderstand the word 'represent'. I consider it as the verbal form of 'representative' previously. Now, I think it should mean 'recall or remind'. Is it
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To touch the line of success is a gradual process.'To touch the line of success' is not a a good phrase. It means nothing to me.
You will make advances to your goals when you start to overcome the anxieties that lead you to procrastinate. OK
This is my paraphrasing.
Thinking for a while, I find that maybe
You will make advances to your goals when you start to overcome the anxieties that lead you to procrastinate. OK
This is my paraphrasing.
Thinking for a while, I find that maybe
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