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Bepleased Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Take the bad with the good

Hello,

May I paraphrase it this way: "take the bad in addition to / to add to the good"?

With sentence to suppport my view:
The rain fell throughout the night with the roof already leaking---an added misfotune.
= The rain fell throughout the night in addition to the rood already leaking.

Could any one give the suggestions to me?

Thank you for your help.
  

Top answer

It means that the bad and good come together in one package. You cannot separate the good parts from the bad parts. Example: You decide to have a child.

  • It means that the bad and good come together in one package.
  • You cannot separate the good parts from the bad parts.
  • Example: You decide to have a child.
  • But a child can cause unhappiness as well as great happiness.
  • You have to take your chances at both happiness (the good) and disappointment (the bad).
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It means that the bad and good come together in one package.
You cannot separate the good parts from the bad parts.

Example: You decide to have a child. But a child can cause unhappiness as well as great happiness. You have to take your chances at both happiness (the good) and disappointment (the bad).

A similar expression is "Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater."
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Hillo,

May I put it this way, with used to show "at the same time and rate as"(this is of dictionary)?

Can I paraphrase it: Don't throw out the baby at the same time as throwing out the bathwater?

That means the same time as throwing out the bathwater only supports one thing.

And can I paraphrase it: He takes the bad at the same time as taking the good?
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Hi Bepleased;

There is no hint of a metaphor regarding rock in these expressions.
Rock is not a good metaphor because rocks do not support life, and these sayings are about life choices.
This lesson is repeated in Matthew, Mark and Luke.
Luke 8: 5-6
A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls
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Dear stars,

In those of sentences, all the things thought to be finished through the same time with each other.

So, in the mental image , time is below the things and things are above the time.

In English the time regarded as a way to support the thing.

e.g. Christmas is still a long way off.
[way]----the distance in space or time to be travelled in order
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Hello,

The very most interpretation is the mental image or the logic flow chart.

Text before staff is always clumsy and powerless.

Text before the logic flow chart is also.

My saying are all on the logic chart or the mental image.

e.g. put a question to you
the logic chart:
put

to you (to used to show for the consideration of you, s
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ask of you a question = ask a question that you consider
= ask a question with respect to the consideration of you

put a question to you = put that a question exists in connection with you
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In those of sentences, all the things are thought to be finished at through the same time with each other.

Yes, that is true. It is the very definition of with, which means together, at the same time, and near in place.

I went to school with Mark. (We s
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Hi,

In English, the time regarded as the two thing: one used to mapping some event; another used to the distance in time as a road.

the one use of the "time":
e.g.
"some where in time"-----some where is mapped by time ;

"An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening."------an hour with respect to the morning

"That is all for today."-------the produc
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bepleasedIn English, the time regarded as the two thing: one used to mapping some event; another used to the distance in time as a road.
The concept of time and space is not unique to English.
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Human beings have marked time with many kinds of clocks, calendars, and reference systems. The Chinese calendar, Mayan calendar, Gregorian Calendar, Jewis
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Dear Stars,

Thank you for its being of importance to me.

I want to say the heavy-handed and irrational grammar.

English law: singular moun + with + noun, verbs should use the singular.

But grammar never provides any reason for its each law.

The mental image or the logic flow chart can do that well.

e.g.
John with his wife and five childr

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