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UncleXiaolin

30 sep 2016

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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre bear on y relevant to ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.

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acaciaturtle

30 sep 2016

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It means it adds on to their problems. "bear on" is a negative term, it never helps, it is just a burden

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acaciaturtle

30 sep 2016

Inglés (US)

That's a heavy task to bear on your shoulders.
You don't need to bear all that responsibility on yourself, get others to help you with it.
Bear on is used with burdens to be dealt with, or, in really old books/stories, carrying things around.
Elephants aren't relevant to orange lemons!
Well, since lines are relevant to our consideration of the illuminati and squares, and squares have lines, and the illuminati has lines, therefore illuminati is squares.
Anyhow, since you decided to talk about something not relevant to what I was saying, I forgot what I was going to say.
Relevant to is a term for two situations or things being relatable/similar/alike.

UncleXiaolin

30 sep 2016

Chino simplificado

excellent answer
In the following sentence,"
The national policies which bear on these problems."
Does the "bear on" here means the policies are designed to solve those problems?

acaciaturtle

30 sep 2016

Inglés (US)

It means it adds on to their problems. "bear on" is a negative term, it never helps, it is just a burden

UncleXiaolin

30 sep 2016

Chino simplificado

Many thanks

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