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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary
watershed
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i need your help again.
it goes without saying that in the early years of their relationship a child is more dependent on its parents than the other way around.
(this sentence is clear to me)
however, a point is clearly reached at which it is children who become more important to their parent than the converse.
(ok too)
interestingly enough, nearly all the people we spoke to pinpointed the birth of their own first child as the watershed.
( does watershed here mean that many people feel they are the dependant right from the child's birth, rather than the other way round?)
thank you.
inchoate
i need your help again.
it goes without saying that in the early years of their relationship a child is more dependent on its parents than the other way around.
(this sentence is clear to me)
however, a point is clearly reached at which it is children who become more important to their parent than the converse.
(ok too)
interestingly enough, nearly all the people we spoke to pinpointed the birth of their own first child as the watershed.
( does watershed here mean that many people feel they are the dependant right from the child's birth, rather than the other way round?)
thank you.
inchoate
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it is this:
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watershed
4 : a crucial or dividing point, line, or factor<his achievement would rank as a watershed in recent European history -- Newsweek> <without crossing the watershed of war -- H.L.Stimson> <the watershed moments of history -- C.H.Sykes>
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watershed
4 : a crucial or dividing point, line, or factor<his achievement would rank as a watershed in recent European history -- Newsweek> <without crossing the watershed of war -- H.L.Stimson> <the watershed moments of history -- C.H.Sykes>
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pinpointed as the watershed?
what does this sentence mean?
thx
incho
what does this sentence mean?
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incho
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>pinpointed as the watershed?
indicated that thing/time as being the crucial event/time
indicated that thing/time as being the crucial event/time
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I think the author wants to present an (apparent) paradox here:
this is the common opinion:
in the early years of their relationship a child is more dependent on
its parents than the other way around
this is the tenet which contradicts the common opinion (the paradox)
this is the common opinion:
in the early years of their relationship a child is more dependent on
its parents than the other way around
this is the tenet which contradicts the common opinion (the paradox)
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if the common oppinion is accepted as true, i do not see it paradoxical that at a certain stage the dependence is the converse of what it used to be the case.
watershed is an important event which marks a change, is it not?
watershed is an important event which marks a change, is it not?
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Perhaps they mean they are dependent on the child in an emotional sense. Their emotional sense of well-being is now entirely wrapped up in, and depending upon, this child? Perhaps the simple survival of the child, perhaps the child's own happiness, etc. I'm not sure. Obviously, the parent is not physically dependent on the child at birth, so that just seems like on plausible explanation. (Said the
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