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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Meaning?

Hi everybody,
Could you please tell me what is the meaning of"Non of us would look good" in the following context:
History not worth or dredging up.Non of us would look good.
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It should say " None of us would look good". The first sentence is garbled. I suppose it was basically intended to say "The history is not worth dredging up", though perhaps some additional words are missing.

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  • It should say " None of us would look good".
  • The first sentence is garbled.
  • I suppose it was basically intended to say "The history is not worth dredging up", though perhaps some additional words are missing.
  • In other words, if we start examining what happened, we will all appear to have behaved badly / made mistakes / been incompetent / etc.
  • There should be a space after the full stop.
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It should say "None of us would look good". The first sentence is garbled. I suppose it was basically intended to say "The history is not worth dredging up", though perhaps some additional words are missing. In other words, if we start examining what happened, we will all appear to have behaved badly / made mistakes / been incompetent / etc.

There should be a space after the full s
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Thank you very much for your absolutely valid and pertinent remarks.In fact I have omitted by mistake the letter"e" from the word "None" and the word"repeating"after the word "worth".Now ,does these corrections change your previous respond as to the meaning of the text?.
Thanks again.
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History is not worth repeating or dredging up.

I find this slightly unclear within the context. Does it mean "repeating" as in retelling what happened, or as in doing the same things over again?
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