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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
The meaning of “sluiced our way”
the meaning of “sluiced our way”
The passage below comes from the website as follows.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&p=6
Even the Dutch, those epitomes of seventeenth-century enterprise, fell under the curse of resources in the late twentieth century when they found too much natural gas: the Dutch disease, they called it, as their inflated currency hurt their exporters. Japan spent the first half of the twentieth century jealously seeking to grab resources and ended up in ruins; it spent the second half of the century trading and selling without resources and ended up topping the lifespan league. In the 2000s the West misspent much of the cheap windfall of Chinese savings that the United States Federal Reserve sluiced our way.
In that passage, I have a question about the underlined part, “sluiced our way.” I can figure it has some negative nuance, but I cannot pinpoint what it means. Can you give me the exact meaning, and, if you can, any example sentence?
Thanks in advance.
The passage below comes from the website as follows.
http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=H8AVF5J5&p=6
Even the Dutch, those epitomes of seventeenth-century enterprise, fell under the curse of resources in the late twentieth century when they found too much natural gas: the Dutch disease, they called it, as their inflated currency hurt their exporters. Japan spent the first half of the twentieth century jealously seeking to grab resources and ended up in ruins; it spent the second half of the century trading and selling without resources and ended up topping the lifespan league. In the 2000s the West misspent much of the cheap windfall of Chinese savings that the United States Federal Reserve sluiced our way.
In that passage, I have a question about the underlined part, “sluiced our way.” I can figure it has some negative nuance, but I cannot pinpoint what it means. Can you give me the exact meaning, and, if you can, any example sentence?
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
Stenka25 sluiced our way. ~ directed toward us in great quantities, as if drenching us with a flow of liquid. CJ
- Stenka25 sluiced our way.
- ~ directed toward us in great quantities, as if drenching us with a flow of liquid.
- CJ
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Stenka25sluiced our way.~ directed toward us in great quantities, as if drenching us with a flow of liquid.
CJ
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Thanks a lot as always, CJ.
In that way do you mean the underlined 'that' represents 'much of the cheap windfall of Chinese savings' and is the object of 'sluiced'?
In the 2000s the West misspent much of the cheap windfall of Chinese savings that the United States Federal Reserve sluiced our way.
In that way do you mean the underlined 'that' represents 'much of the cheap windfall of Chinese savings' and is the object of 'sluiced'?
In the 2000s the West misspent much of the cheap windfall of Chinese savings that the United States Federal Reserve sluiced our way.
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Stenka25the underlined 'that' represents 'much of the cheap windfall of Chinese savings' and is the object of 'sluiced'?That's correct. Or almost. I would not include "much of". Here's the underlying thought:
The US Federal Reserve sluiced the cheap windfall of Chinese savings [our way / in our direction / toward us]. (The West misspent much of
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