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Johnson13 Posted 13 years ago
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Overtaken by the enlargement
-The following year I started sending observers regularly to Indo-China, but their reports were continually overtaken by the enlargement of the war.
For the italic part, does it mean?(I've looked out OVERTAKE in Random House and Oxford; in vain.):
1.The escalation of the war prevented the report from going into my hands.
2. Each report told me about the situation of the war more serious than the previous one.
For the italic part, does it mean?(I've looked out OVERTAKE in Random House and Oxford; in vain.):
1.The escalation of the war prevented the report from going into my hands.
2. Each report told me about the situation of the war more serious than the previous one.
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I interpret it this way: Apparently, the observers' reports were outdated (obsolete) by the time they arrived because the war had escalated in the meantime.
- I interpret it this way: Apparently, the observers' reports were outdated (obsolete) by the time they arrived because the war had escalated in the meantime.
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I interpret it this way:
Apparently, the observers' reports were outdated (obsolete) by the time they arrived because the war had escalated in the meantime.
Apparently, the observers' reports were outdated (obsolete) by the time they arrived because the war had escalated in the meantime.
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