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Kapa Posted 12 years ago
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hi friends, in the following text, there is the bold sentence which does not make sense to me. would you explain it's structure?
“They’d had to conceal the true statistics to avoid panic, he said, but a shocking forty percent of the population had no jobs, with fifty percent of those being under twenty-five: which was a recipe for systems breakdown, for anarchy, for chaos, for the senseless destruction of property, for looting and gang rule and warlords and mass rape, and the terrorization of the weak and helpless. That was the grim prospect staring society right between the eyes.”
“They’d had to conceal the true statistics to avoid panic, he said, but a shocking forty percent of the population had no jobs, with fifty percent of those being under twenty-five: which was a recipe for systems breakdown, for anarchy, for chaos, for the senseless destruction of property, for looting and gang rule and warlords and mass rape, and the terrorization of the weak and helpless. That was the grim prospect staring society right between the eyes.”
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Kapa That was the grim prospect staring society right between the eyes. That was the terrible situation that might happen in the future if nothing was done, and society had to face this fact. CJ
- Kapa That was the grim prospect staring society right between the eyes.
- That was the terrible situation that might happen in the future if nothing was done, and society had to face this fact.
- CJ
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KapaThat was the grim prospect staring society right between the eyes.That was the terrible situation that might happen in the future if nothing was done, and society had to face this fact.
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Kapa"right" here is noun or adverb?Adverb modifying "between the eyes". Meaning: exactly, precisely.
CJ
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Kapayou mean," the grim prospect stared (gazed at) the society." ?Gazing at someone is a bit less intimidating.
To stare someone in the eyes is to look directly into their eyes.
It is a somewhat aggressive act.
Of course this is symbolic of being an important problem that society had to deal with.
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