@dufresne on myLot

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 26 Jun 09

In the sentence "Two attacks came as hostile takeover bids from Revlon, led by Ronald Perelman, a cigar-chomping raider with a reputation for breaking apart companies to pay down junk bonds and finance more hostile raids.", can...

question

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 26 Jun 09

In the sentence "Now, you might be thinking, "But that just sounds like self-serving entrenched management fighting for their interests at the expense of shareholder interests.",I've found that "entrenched" means "deep-rooted",...

question

2 responses •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 26 Jun 09

In the sentence "Abbott pioneered application of computer technology to increase economic denominator of profit per employee.", what is "economic denominator"?

question

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 12 Jun 09

In the sentence "I never doubted not only that I would get out (of the prisoner-of-war camp), but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not...

question

2 responses •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the sentence "In both mining and refining ,you would need transportation to support the movement of supplies, equipment, and personnel.", can I replace "movement" with "move" and "transportation" with 'transport"? I mean I...

question

3 responses •

1 person

dufresne I mean when a word has both verb and noun forms and is used as a noun, like "move" and "movement", what's the differential of them in your native speaker's mind?

5 Jun 09

•

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 5 Jun 09

In the sentence "If there was a drought and the grain harvest failed, they(farmers) didn't have other resources and that's why they were subject to malnutrition or even starvation.",can I replace "subject" with "subjected"?

question

1 response

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the sentence "In both mining and refining ,you would need transportation to support the movement of supplies, equipment, and personnel.", can I replace "movement" with "move" and "transportation" with 'transport"? I mean I...

3 responses •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the sentence "I'm not sure that you'd find demographics on income and home prices in an encyclopedia.",does "demographics" mean the distribution of population on different levels of income in terms of a pie chart or sth?

question

1 response •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the two sentences "I think I've heard some references to Cybermodernism, if you want to investigate some of the work that's being created in mixed media literature." and "If you run into any problems, just stop by during my...

question

2 responses •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the sentence "The first part of the list has the usual North American writers and, of course, a good representation of women writers as you would expect.", does "representation" mean "collection" or "description"?

question

1 response •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the sentence "Did you notice that the airline schedules factor in the effect of the jet stream(a strong air current way beyond us) on flight times?", does "factor" play the role of verb? and what it means?

question

4 responses •

2 people

dufresne Can I say "factor in" equals "take into account" instead of "factor" alone?

4 Jun 09

•

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the sentence "Did you notice that the airline schedules factor in the effect of the jet stream(a strong air current way beyond us) on flight times?", does "factor" play the role of verb? and what it means?

4 responses •

2 people

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 4 Jun 09

In the simple sentence "The teacher looked at John's work and approved it.", what's the difference between "approve" and "approve of" in you native speaker's mind?

question

3 responses •

2 people

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 1 Jun 09

In the sentence "He(Paul Bunyan) is attributed with the creation of the Grand Canyon, Puget Sound, and Black Hills.", I think the "with" right after "attributed" should be "to", because dictionary tells me so. What do you think?

question

4 responses •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 1 Jun 09

In the sentence "I like to think of our work as a search for timeless principles--the enduring physics of great organizations--that will remain true and relevant no matter how the world changes around us.", I know "physics" means...

question

1 response •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 22 May 09

In the sentence "In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but as more of a prequel.", what's the meaning of "ironic twist"?

question

1 response

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 22 May 09

In the sentence "And in each rendition of the new economy, the best leaders have adhered to certain basic principles, with rigor and discipline.", I know "rendition "means" the performance of a piece of music", but how can it be...

question

2 responses •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 22 May 09

In the sentence "We're very much up to snuff about our own national events,but we are less aware of what's happening in other countries.", what does "snuff about" mean,and I hope you could give me a little explanation about why...

question

3 responses •

1 person

dufresne @dufresne (137) • China 18 May 09

In the sentence "He met with President Ulysses S.Grant and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, among others, to promote his project and figure out, as he said,"if the dream could become reality.", can I turn "met with" at the...

question

2 responses •

1 person

dufresne's Activity