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John liao Posted 12 years ago
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On the other side? new concept English 3.12
Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.The other side of the picture is quite the opposite.
"the other side of the picture" means the other aspect of the same idea or another idea? In my book, the Chinese translation shows it means another idea.
"the other side of the picture" means the other aspect of the same idea or another idea? In my book, the Chinese translation shows it means another idea.
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Hello John Liao. Here the other side of the picture means what life on a desert island is really like: a wet, insect-infested existence, where food is hard to come by, and shelter has to be constructed out of primitive materials.
- Hello John Liao.
- Here the other side of the picture means what life on a desert island is really like: a wet, insect-infested existence, where food is hard to come by, and shelter has to be constructed out of primitive materials.
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Hello John Liao.
Here the other side of the picture means what life on a desert island is really like: a wet, insect-infested existence, where food is hard to come by, and shelter has to be constructed out of primitive materials.
Here the other side of the picture means what life on a desert island is really like: a wet, insect-infested existence, where food is hard to come by, and shelter has to be constructed out of primitive materials.
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So, in "the other side of picture", "the picture" means the same specific description hold by the same people and described before, or means another description that gives some other people an idea ?
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In British English, I'm more used to the idiom The other side of the picture - not On the other side of the picture. I don't think that makes much difference.
The idea is simply that this is a picture with two sides: on the one side you have the beautiful island life, sunny, warm, idyllic; turn the picture over and you are presented with the inconvenien
The idea is simply that this is a picture with two sides: on the one side you have the beautiful island life, sunny, warm, idyllic; turn the picture over and you are presented with the inconvenien
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