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What does this sentence mean? What does "recognise a Coke bottle by its shape, even if they cannot see it" mean? "Hundreds of millions of people can recognise a Coke bottle by its shape, even if they cannot see it!"
Aug 9, 2021 7:30 AM
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even if you can not see it 意思是: you can feel it by touching, or by its silhouette.
例如: 你把那个东西拿来,
即使我看不到它,我用手摸就知道它是什么东西。you bring it here,I can recognize what it is by touching it , even if I can not see it)
August 9, 2021
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I think it mean if they feel/ touch it they can still recognize it (which is pretty true, I'd definitely be able to identify a coke bottle just by feeling the bottle even if I was blindfolded). I don't think it is about drawings or images, because that still implies seeing it to some extent.
August 9, 2021
Sometimes you can see a drawing of something, just the outline or silhouette.
As coke bottles have a particular shape (a shape unique to it and no other bottles look like that) even if you cannot see the bottle, you are looking at a shape and not a picture, you still know it is a coke bottle.
If this doesn't help could you explain which part of the sentence you are struggling with and wet can look at each word.
August 9, 2021
答复提问者的问题:
即使你看不到可口可乐瓶,you can not see it (你不能""全部清楚地""看到它),但是,你也可以认识它,因为过去你见过可口可乐瓶的特殊形状,你只要
根据它的外表形状特征= by its shape
即使用手摸如感觉,或者远远看不清但看到其了轮廓,你会"认出"是可口可乐瓶。关键在于对动词"recognise"
的用法,和体会by(根据…, 按照…, 通过……)的意思,仔细品味连词"even if ",即使……,(也……)。
再仔细品味我上述的讲解。估计可能明白了。
August 9, 2021
Hundreds of millions of people can recognise ……by its shape, even if they cannot see it.
译文
(按照原文顺序译文)数以亿计的人能通过可口可乐瓶的形状认识可口可乐瓶,即使他们不能亲眼看到它。
讲解。
1. 代词 it = 一个可口可乐瓶, its shape = 一个可口可乐瓶的形状。
2. 介词 by表示方式,意思是通过 …方式(或者通过…途径),这是by最经常的一种用法。所以, by its shape 意思是通过可口可乐瓶的形状。(你只要过去见过可口可乐瓶,就该知道全世界可苦可乐的瓶无论多大多小,其形状都非常相似)
3. 谓语动词"recognise" 意思是:(由于过去曾经看到或者听到某人或某事,所以现在看到或者听到了便认识某人或者某事(不需要仔细研究,一看就"认识"), 这个动词的结果是"辨认或者认出来"某人或者某事了。
因此,根据这个动词的原意,加上壮语by its shape(见上),就很容易理解我的译文。
Hope this helps you.
August 9, 2021
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