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jasonlulu_2000
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 Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:35 am Post subject: a challenge for man |
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---How amazing it is that astronauts are exploring the Mars.
---It's a challenge for man against nature.
Does "for" make sense in this context?
Thanks!
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IanT
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| Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2013 11:24 am Post subject: |
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First, no "the". Just Mars. 
Regarding your question: I don't like the sentence, because you can't really have a "challenge against" like that. I'd want a comma, and maybe an extra word.
e.g. It's a challenge for mankind, fighting against nature.
Something like that.
Hope helps,
Ian
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Tao
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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OF could also be used. "Man against nature" is a literary conflict as in Jack London's stories. If you want to be "politically" correct (which is often absurd), don't use mankind, use either people or humankind, though man in mankind really means person�fwiw
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