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jasonlulu_2000
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 Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 6:27 am Post subject: issues of human heart |
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Despite instant communications in a globalized age, issues of human heart remain. Many people are lonely, or in routines that discourage knowing the depth of one another. �We are trapped in shallow conversations and the whole point now is to think, which is sometimes painful.
What does the underlined sentence mean?
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IanT
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| Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:59 am Post subject: |
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It means "there are still questions connected to emotions and feelings" (which are not solved by instant (but shallow) communication)
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Tao
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Should read "issues of THE human heart"...
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Not necessarily. The version quoted, is slightly unusual, but not wrong, unless you're talking medically.
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Tao
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Necessarily
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IanT
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Plenty of examples of the word heart being used without an article.
Learn the poem by heart.
Take heart, lose heart.
A man of great heart.
It depends whether you are referring to the singular physical organ, or the uncountable emotional capacity.
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