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Does "take answer to the question" mean "answer the question"?
So far scientists have focused mainly on public buildings. “We have a very limited number of studies, so we are almost looking at the problem through a straw” architect David Allison says; “How do you take answers to very specific questions and make broad ,generalize use of them?” That is what we are all struggling with”
“How do you take answers to very specific questions and make broad ,generalize use of them?”
Can I change it to""How do you answer very specific questions and use them broadly, generally?"
What does "them" in the sentence refer to?
2018年4月20日 12:41
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This is about 'specific' vs 'broad, generalized'. Them refers to answers (to very specific questions).
The writer is asking how you can generalize something specific. This is because the answer to a specific question should only give you information about similar, specific questions. It cannot be applied across the board or generalized.
Compare: How do you take financial problems and solve them without spending a lot of money?
2018年4月20日
Angel is correct. 'Them' refers to answers, so you can't change it as you suggested, as then your 'them' would refer to the questions, not the answers. It also isn't natural to concatenate broadly and generally like that.
You could use: "How do you answer very specific questions and use those answers broadly, and generally?"
'take answers to very specific questions' is like a condensed version of 'take answers that are answers to very specific questions'.
Also note that there are a couple of errors in your original too. It should be "broad, generalized", with the space after the comma, and a D on generalized.
2018年4月20日
Them refers to the answers, not the questions. You can not change the sentence as you have suggested or you change the meaning of the sentence.
2018年4月20日
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