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 mursher

link 19.11.2017 21:55 
Subject: are multiplying ecol.
Помогите , пжл, перевести are multiplying

Our current methods of limiting environmental damage clearly have not stopped us from fragmenting, depleting, polluting. eroding and extinguishing nature. And these five impacts are multiplying nature, largely because we’ve moved from a resource-rich, cash-poor world to exactly the opposite, a planet that is resource-poor and cash-rich.

 johnstephenson

link 19.11.2017 23:06 
I don't know why the author's put 'multiplying nature' here. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense given that he says nature's resources are decreasing. The English in the rest of the paragraph is 10/10, though. Could it, I wonder, be a misprint for eg:
* 'multiplying nature's (sth - eg problems)?
* 'multiplying in nature' (ie, of a multiplying type)?
* 'of a multiplying nature' (ie, of a multiplying type)?
or something similar? These are all guesses, though.

What's the source? Is it from (say) a published book (in which case it will probably have been proofread)? Or from some other source?

 Amor 71

link 19.11.2017 23:33 
It makes a perfect sense without the word "nature". It does not belong there.

 johnstephenson

link 20.11.2017 0:04 
*** It makes a perfect sense without the word "nature" ***

That's true. Given that 'multiplying' and 'nature' don't make much sense together, I'd consider ignoring the 'nature' altogether.

 Shumov

link 20.11.2017 0:42 
+1
думаю, что вначале было of a multiplying nature, потом "of a" вычеркнули, а "nature" забыли.

 Shumov

link 20.11.2017 0:45 
или пропущено for междe multiplying и nature :)

 Shumov

link 20.11.2017 0:45 
*между

 

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