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I've found following sentence in a book.
Prodigious efforts, accelerated during two world wars, were required before the technology of primitive rocketry could be translated into the reality of sophisticated astronauts.
Does above sentence mean same as following?
Prodigious efforts which accelerated during two world wars were required before the technology of primitive rocketry could be translated into the reality of sophisticated astronauts.
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They mean the same thing. What I find a bit quaint is that the astronaut sophistication is contrasted with primitive technology. Prodigious efforts, which accelerated during two world wars, were required before the technology of primitive rocketry could be translated into the sophisticated reality of modern-day astronauts.
- They mean the same thing.
- What I find a bit quaint is that the astronaut sophistication is contrasted with primitive technology.
- Prodigious efforts, which accelerated during two world wars, were required before the technology of primitive rocketry could be translated into the sophisticated reality of modern-day astronauts.
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They mean the same thing.
What I find a bit quaint is that the astronaut sophistication is contrasted with primitive technology.
Prodigious efforts, which accelerated during two world wars, were required before the technology of primitive rocketry could be translated into the sophisticated reality of modern-day astronauts.
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