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Square Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
To identify with
Stan Deal, Vice President for Sales in Asia-Pacific of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said the motorbike helmets donation goes hand-in-hand with Vietnamese people to improve motorists’ road safety awareness. And that is something Boeing employees can identify with.Edit Post Reply Reply With Quote http://forum.wordreference.com/report.php?p=14184493
Source: "Boeing donates 350 helmets to Hoi Ninh Primary School", Vietnam Breaking News.
What is the meaning of "identify with" here?
Here is a definition of the phrase from Cambridge Dictionaries Online:
identify with someone/something
to feel that you are similar to someone and can understand them or their situation:
Readers can identify with the hero of the novel.
I am wondering of the definition fits that context. I don't understand what is "that" in "And that is something...."
Thanks.
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The first sentence isn't very coherent, specifically the "goes hand-in-hand with Vietnamese people" part. This makes it slightly harder to pin down exactly what "that" refers to, but broadly speaking it seems to refer to efforts to improve road safety awareness. e.
- The first sentence isn't very coherent, specifically the "goes hand-in-hand with Vietnamese people" part.
- This makes it slightly harder to pin down exactly what "that" refers to, but broadly speaking it seems to refer to efforts to improve road safety awareness.
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- see similarities with their own situation/experience): "As builders of commercial jetliners, Boeing employees know a thing or two about transportation safety".
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The first sentence isn't very coherent, specifically the "goes hand-in-hand with Vietnamese people" part. This makes it slightly harder to pin down exactly what "that" refers to, but broadly speaking it seems to refer to efforts to improve road safety awareness. The next sentence explains (slightly tenuously) why Boeing employees can identify with this issue (i.e. see similarities with their own s
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Yes it perfectly fits. The "that" in the sentence refers to what the Vice President thinks and says according to the sentence. In the sentence he talks about helmet donation to increase road safety awareness. The employees relate with means that they understand the importance of the awareness and feel there was a need for the same.
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Thanks a lot.
I was also confused about the part you said. Should it be "the motorbike helmets go hand-in-hand with Vietnamese people"?
I was also confused about the part you said. Should it be "the motorbike helmets go hand-in-hand with Vietnamese people"?
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SquareI was also confused about the part you said. Should it be "the motorbike helmets go hand-in-hand with Vietnamese people"?That doesn't work for me either. The problem is still that the two things going "hand-in-hand" are too disparate. This would work better for me:
the motorbike helmets donation goes hand-in-hand with (the) Vietnamese peo
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