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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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What does "at the expense of" mean? Help me!
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Please, look at "at the expense of" in the below sentence.
The pre-Mendelian "state of confusion" reflected in part the absence of conceptual distinctions that were clarified in the early twentieth century, and then only at the expense of an oversimplification of the complex relationships between A and B.
What does "at the expense of" mean?
And if possible, can you parapharase this sentence?
Thank you!
I really really need your help!
Please, look at "at the expense of" in the below sentence.
The pre-Mendelian "state of confusion" reflected in part the absence of conceptual distinctions that were clarified in the early twentieth century, and then only at the expense of an oversimplification of the complex relationships between A and B.
What does "at the expense of" mean?
And if possible, can you parapharase this sentence?
Thank you!
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You can often replace "at the expense of" with "with the drawback of" or "with the penalty of". However, it's better to reconstruct the sentence so that you can use "with the drawback that.."
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