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hiromichi
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 Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject: The shadow shades you. |
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The captioned English was written by a Japanese. He wanted to say that one is safe if he avoids the sunshine. Does the sentence make sense?
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educe22
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The sentence makes sense as a statement of fact, but is somewhat redundant and probably not the way a native speaker would state it. Typically "shade" and "shadow" are not used together.
Examples:
Stay in the shade to avoid getting sunburn.
I will sit in the shade.
He sat in the shadow of the building to avoid the heat of the sun.
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hiromichi
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| Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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educe22:
Thank you very much.
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