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Stenka25 Posted 10 years ago
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Spread the fertile topsoil washed down
spread the fertile topsoil washed down
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Meanwhile, in the valleys of the Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers, other peasants monitored, with no less trepidation, the height of the water. They needed the rivers to rise in order to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands, and to enable their vast irrigation systems to fill with water.
In this sentence, I'd like to ask a question regarding the underlined 'spread' and 'washed'.
I am not entirely sure what 'washed' is doing in this context.
My thought led me to conclude it is the contracted form of 'to be washed' and so 'spread' can be exchanged for 'get' without much loss of meaning.
Do you agree with my line of thought?
Regards.
The passage comes from the website below :
http://erenow.com/common/sapiensbriefhistory/25.html
Meanwhile, in the valleys of the Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers, other peasants monitored, with no less trepidation, the height of the water. They needed the rivers to rise in order to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands, and to enable their vast irrigation systems to fill with water.
In this sentence, I'd like to ask a question regarding the underlined 'spread' and 'washed'.
I am not entirely sure what 'washed' is doing in this context.
My thought led me to conclude it is the contracted form of 'to be washed' and so 'spread' can be exchanged for 'get' without much loss of meaning.
Do you agree with my line of thought?
Regards.
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Stenka25 to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands so that the rivers could spread the fertile topsoil which had been washed down from the highlands
- Stenka25 to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlands so that the rivers could spread the fertile topsoil which had been washed down from the highlands
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Stenka25to spread the fertile topsoil washed down from the highlandsso that the rivers could spread the fertile topsoil which had been washed down from the highlands
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