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:shock: I´m with you , Iloveenglish :lol:
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| #3 (permalink) Mon Aug 17, 2009 20:17 pm I don't understand this sentence. |
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| Somebody must have lost their stream of thoughts while writing and has ended up with this. |
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| #4 (permalink) Mon Aug 17, 2009 20:57 pm I don't understand this sentence. |
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| Hahaha, yeah it is hard. It is actually a famous quote of Adam Smith. |
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| #5 (permalink) Mon Aug 17, 2009 22:05 pm I don't understand this sentence. |
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The division of labor (1) creates the great multiplication of the productions (2) which makes it possible to extend the universal opulence (3) to to the lowest ranks of the people (4), provided that the society is well-governed (5).
stream of thoughts - train of thought
Idioms & Phrases
train of thought
A succession of connected ideas, a path of reasoning, as in You've interrupted my train of thought; now what was I saying? This idiom, which uses train in the sense of "an orderly sequence," was first recorded in 1651, in philosopher Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan.
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| #6 (permalink) Mon Aug 17, 2009 22:09 pm I don't understand this sentence. |
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| Thank you, Milanya. |
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| #7 (permalink) Mon Aug 17, 2009 22:37 pm I don't understand this sentence. |
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| Wow, thanks a lot Milanya!!! Now I am able to understand it. |
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| #8 (permalink) Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:25 am Sentence: It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different |
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Wow, Milanya. We always can rely on you when it comes to deal with circular expressions.
Nonetheless the initial "which occassions" sounds very intricate and also "the productions of all the different arts" doesn´t suggest to mean an average term of manufacturing, does it?
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| #9 (permalink) Tue Aug 18, 2009 17:01 pm Sentence: It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different |
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occasion
tr.v. occasioned, occasioning, occasions
To provide occasion for; cause.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/occasion
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