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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
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A professor urges his students at Harvard Medical School to read George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer. Unlike standard textbooks, these novels explore in human terms many of the ethical issues that physicians face.
Q1) What does "terms" in the last sentence mean?
Q2) Which word best replaces it?
Q1) What does "terms" in the last sentence mean?
Q2) Which word best replaces it?
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"in ... terms" is a fixed expression used to state the type of language in which something is described or explained. "in human terms" would mean from the perspective of human feelings and emotions, contrasted, say, with technical or scientific terms.
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- terms" is a fixed expression used to state the type of language in which something is described or explained.
- "in human terms" would mean from the perspective of human feelings and emotions, contrasted, say, with technical or scientific terms.
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"in ... terms" is a fixed expression used to state the type of language in which something is described or explained. "in human terms" would mean from the perspective of human feelings and emotions, contrasted, say, with technical or scientific terms.
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