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MIG Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
"Nature is never spent"
Hi. Please help me to understand the exact meaning of "Nature is never spent" in the text below.
Even in areas that are colorless because they have been stripped of life by natural disasters or human misuse, nature is never spent, as English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins writes, and with renewed life, color returns.
Thank you.
Even in areas that are colorless because they have been stripped of life by natural disasters or human misuse, nature is never spent, as English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins writes, and with renewed life, color returns.
Thank you.
Top answer
In this context spent means finished, unable to continue, having no more power or energy .
- In this context spent means finished, unable to continue, having no more power or energy .
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In this context spent means finished, unable to continue, having no more power or energy.
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MIGSo "never" inverts its meaning, making it positive.Yes. Nature is never finished. Nature is never unable to continue.
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