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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
meaning of "as"
1. Does the highlighted sentence mean
a) artists, poets and musicians as the pioneers of urbanism will revive the docks and markets the same way they existed twenty years ago
or
b) artists, poets and musicians will revive the city, as if they are the pioneers of urbanism, just as the docks and markets were the pioneers of urbanism twenty years ago.
2. Why the the prediction says "as the City decayed, it would" instead of "as the City decays it will..."? Does it want to say "if the City decayed, it would..."? Is it a hypothesis?
Context:
In Patrick Keiller’s film London, his protagonist Robinson, a modern-day flˆaneur, bewails the contamination effected by investors and speculators as he searches the narrow alleys around St Paul’s for a former ‘conviviality of caf´e life’. In an empty bar in Fleet Street he predicts that ‘as the City decayed, it would be reclaimed by artists, poets and musicians, the pioneers of urbanism, as the docks and markets had been twenty years before’
a) artists, poets and musicians as the pioneers of urbanism will revive the docks and markets the same way they existed twenty years ago
or
b) artists, poets and musicians will revive the city, as if they are the pioneers of urbanism, just as the docks and markets were the pioneers of urbanism twenty years ago.
2. Why the the prediction says "as the City decayed, it would" instead of "as the City decays it will..."? Does it want to say "if the City decayed, it would..."? Is it a hypothesis?
Context:
In Patrick Keiller’s film London, his protagonist Robinson, a modern-day flˆaneur, bewails the contamination effected by investors and speculators as he searches the narrow alleys around St Paul’s for a former ‘conviviality of caf´e life’. In an empty bar in Fleet Street he predicts that ‘as the City decayed, it would be reclaimed by artists, poets and musicians, the pioneers of urbanism, as the docks and markets had been twenty years before’
Top answer
red apple 1. Does the highlighted sentence mean a) a or b) Neither A nor B. The artists will reclaim the city as they previously reclaimed the docks and markets.
- red apple 1.
- Does the highlighted sentence mean a) a or b) Neither A nor B.
- The artists will reclaim the city as they previously reclaimed the docks and markets.
- red apple 2.
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red apple1. Does the highlighted sentence mean a) a or b)Neither A nor B. The artists will reclaim the city as they previously reclaimed the docks and markets.
red apple2. Why does the prediction say "as the City decayed, it would" instead of "as the City decays it will..."? Does it want to say "if the City decaye
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