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Stenka25 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of 'compromised'
The meaning of 'compromised'
The passage below comes from The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work By Alain De Botton.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=SslgkiNvZ9wC&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=%22the+entire+globe+seeming+promptly+smaller+and+more+compromised%22&source=bl&ots=GfIrDIPkut&sig=E184XFKeaCOEuYSQTmKAFTDelno&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRxYjK88TJAhXCLpQKHahbDMwQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20entire%20globe%20seeming%20promptly%20smaller%20and%20more%20compromised%22&f=false
At two in the morning, I switched on the light and took a formal decision to read until daybreak, so as spitefully to acquaint the wakeful side of me with the full consequences of its insurrection. Unable to concentrate on anything of substance, I looked in the drawer of the bedside table and found a panoply of brochures. They revealed that the hotel, which one could otherwise have taken for an aberration, in fact belonged to a chain with affiliates in thirty-four countries. Comparable charm and service were promised as far afield as Denmark and Venezuela, the entire globe seeming promptly smaller and more compromised as a result.
I'd like to ask the meaning of the underlined 'compromised' in this context.
It seems to have a negative nuance at first glance with 'smaller'.
(Am I right?)
When I looked up FREEDICTIONARY.COM the meaning suggested below corresponds to that of the 'compromise' in question.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/compromised
b. To reduce in quality, value, or degree; weaken or lower:
? Don't compromise your standards.
(Am I right?)
This is my last but not least question.
Even though I had to choose the meaning of the dictionary presented above, I think the 'compromised' in question actually has the nuance of 'being standardized downward' in this context, having still the same negative nuance but a bit different sense in context.
(Do you agree with my sense?)
Regards.
The passage below comes from The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work By Alain De Botton.
https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=SslgkiNvZ9wC&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=%22the+entire+globe+seeming+promptly+smaller+and+more+compromised%22&source=bl&ots=GfIrDIPkut&sig=E184XFKeaCOEuYSQTmKAFTDelno&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRxYjK88TJAhXCLpQKHahbDMwQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20entire%20globe%20seeming%20promptly%20smaller%20and%20more%20compromised%22&f=false
At two in the morning, I switched on the light and took a formal decision to read until daybreak, so as spitefully to acquaint the wakeful side of me with the full consequences of its insurrection. Unable to concentrate on anything of substance, I looked in the drawer of the bedside table and found a panoply of brochures. They revealed that the hotel, which one could otherwise have taken for an aberration, in fact belonged to a chain with affiliates in thirty-four countries. Comparable charm and service were promised as far afield as Denmark and Venezuela, the entire globe seeming promptly smaller and more compromised as a result.
I'd like to ask the meaning of the underlined 'compromised' in this context.
It seems to have a negative nuance at first glance with 'smaller'.
(Am I right?)
When I looked up FREEDICTIONARY.COM the meaning suggested below corresponds to that of the 'compromise' in question.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/compromised
b. To reduce in quality, value, or degree; weaken or lower:
? Don't compromise your standards.
(Am I right?)
This is my last but not least question.
Even though I had to choose the meaning of the dictionary presented above, I think the 'compromised' in question actually has the nuance of 'being standardized downward' in this context, having still the same negative nuance but a bit different sense in context.
(Do you agree with my sense?)
Regards.
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Stenka25 b. To reduce in quality, value, or degree; weaken or lower:? ) Yes.
- Stenka25 b.
- To reduce in quality, value, or degree; weaken or lower:?
- ) Yes.
- And that is not a positive quality.
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Stenka25b. To reduce in quality, value, or degree; weaken or lower:? Don't compromise your standards.(Am I right?)Yes.
And that is not a positive quality.
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Thanks a lot as always, Alpheccastars.
(Your reply doesn't have any comment on my last (but not least) question, though
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(Your reply doesn't have any comment on my last (but not least) question, though
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Stenka25the nuance of 'being standardized downward' in this context,I don't know where you read the idea of a "reduced standard" in the text.
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Because you agree with me in that 'comprimise' has a negative quality.
So I think you think that its meaning is to reduce in quality, value, or degree as dictionary shows.
That's what led me to present that meaning, 'being standardized downward'.
Regards.
So I think you think that its meaning is to reduce in quality, value, or degree as dictionary shows.
That's what led me to present that meaning, 'being standardized downward'.
Regards.
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Stenka25 'being standardized downward'."Standardize" means to define a value system or a system for measurement.
When something is compromised, it no longer conforms to some quality or value; it is degraded. A new measure is not defined in the process.
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All right.
What I was trying to refer to when I said 'being standardized downward' is,
as global economy makes the entire globe smaller
the whole charm and service of the hotels in the same chain becomes comparable,
but this seems-to-be-the-same service compromised the various features of traditional charm and service.
So I said 'being standardized downward'.
Now ba
What I was trying to refer to when I said 'being standardized downward' is,
as global economy makes the entire globe smaller
the whole charm and service of the hotels in the same chain becomes comparable,
but this seems-to-be-the-same service compromised the various features of traditional charm and service.
So I said 'being standardized downward'.
Now ba
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