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Newguest Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
Not taken alone
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More than two hundred species of jasmine exist. The flowers are usually not taken alone; rather they are used to scent green and black teas with their sweetness. The flowers should be consumed fresh ....
--- I'm not sure I understand what it means that the flowers are usually not taken alone? You just don't drink tea with flowers, but you add some other things too?
More than two hundred species of jasmine exist. The flowers are usually not taken alone; rather they are used to scent green and black teas with their sweetness. The flowers should be consumed fresh ....
--- I'm not sure I understand what it means that the flowers are usually not taken alone? You just don't drink tea with flowers, but you add some other things too?
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Newguest I'm not sure I understand what it means that the flowers are usually not taken alone? You just don't drink tea with flowers, but you add some other things too? That's right.
- Newguest I'm not sure I understand what it means that the flowers are usually not taken alone?
- You just don't drink tea with flowers, but you add some other things too?
- That's right.
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NewguestI'm not sure I understand what it means that the flowers are usually not taken alone? You just don't drink tea with flowers, but you add some other things too?That's right.
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This seems to be an old-fashioned use of 'taken' as 'consumed'.
eg We take dinner at 8pm every evening.
eg Will you take another sandwich, Lady Bracknell?
eg We take dinner at 8pm every evening.
eg Will you take another sandwich, Lady Bracknell?
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NewguestThe flowers are usually not taken alone;You don't usually eat the flowers (just by themselves).
(You use them to flavor other things.)
CJ
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