Where there are health consequences, there are associated economic consequences - people have to take time off work to recover, or perhaps even die and so can’t produce, and so on. In other words, if failure to inspect the cheese caused significant health problems, it would also cause significant economic loss as a result of the health problems.
I would rewrite this as follows:
Or arguably:
not yet clear .
I’m not getting the connection of cheese , health problems , economic problems.
How these are related here ?
is it like this ?
bad cheese ----> no inspection ---->people consumed -----> got infected ----> health problems ----> hospital cost + off work and no production ---->economic problems .
Is this the connection flow ?
Or something else been portrayed in the paragraph ?
Yes, you’ve got it. “Not rejecting” the cheese leads to “health consequences,” and there are “economic costs” associated with the health consequences.
By the way, this example (as well as many of the others you present) is not the best example of written English. It’s grammatically correct, but convoluted and awkward. That’s not unusual, because most people (including myself) find it hard to write line after line of clear, expressive, and accurate prose. So these are good, difficult examples of things a native English speaker might be expected to read, but don’t mistake them for good examples of things a native English speaker might be expected to write.
The cheese is “inspected” – this is understood to be inspected for faults, such as being rotten.
The thrust of the paragraph is that having the inspection service may not be worth the money the state expends, because the inspectors aren’t finding very many problems. So even if the inspection service was stopped, the health consequences (people getting sick from rotten cheese) and the economic consequences (people distrusting the cheese, and buying less) would be small.
Please look at this English Text…
In a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers report no change in time spent watching television.
>>>who report increasing time spent per week using computers
is not this means , people are spending more time using computers ?
>>>>no change in time spent watching television.
well, OK. people are watching television exactly the same way…no change in time.
Exactly. People are using computers more but aren’t changing their TV habits.
Not quite.
I think you’re overthinking the question there.
Q: Does this mean people are spending more time using computers ?
Short A: No.
Please look at this English text…
Heavy coffee drinkers may have mild withdrawal symptoms, such as headaches, for a day or so after significantly decreasing their coffee consumption.
what is withdrawal symptoms ?
how come headache be a withdrawal symptom ?
from the wording I guess withdrawal symptom is something that is withdrawn …but headache is not withdrawn …one has to bear it painfully.
I’m uncomfortable with this wording in this context.
Could you please explain why headache is withdrawal symptoms and what does withdrawal symptoms means actually ?
could you please tell whether subway is underground or above the ground ?
or it is both ?
I saw two subway pics here
this above the ground …kind of a over bridge ?
this is below the ground …kind of a station platform ?
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I need to know this because I have this English text where word “subway” is present …
**Crowding on Mooreville’s **subway **frequently leads to delays, because it is difficult for passengers to exit from the trains. **
I’m confusing how it’ll look like in this context . Is it like first or like second ? does “subway” has multiple meaning ?
“Withdrawal symptoms” are symptoms one experiences when eliminating or reducing the intake of an addictive substance. In other words, the symptoms are caused by the withdrawal (taking out) of the substance from the body. Withdrawal symptoms from caffeine (the addictive substance in coffee) are fairly mild, like the headache mentioned. Withdrawal symptoms from more addictive drugs, such as heroin, can be very painful.
Your two pictures are the same.
A “subway” is a commuter train system that runs underground (sub = under). It’s possible that some cities have a “subway system” that runs primarily underground, but some sections of the tracks are aboveground; in that case the aboveground sections are still part of the “subway system,” even though they’re not underground.
Note: I think “subway” is mainly an American usage; the British use “tube.”
but if its underground then there should not be any delay …its a clear path underground.
but look what they say "Crowding on Mooreville’s subway frequently leads to delays, because it is difficult for passengers to exit from the trains. "
it seems to me logic is faulty. do we find tain in delays in subway normally ?
I also don’t like argument that it is delayed because it is difficult for passengers to exit from the trains…this is absurd in subway.
Am I missing something. To me this logic is faulty ? Or this is really the situation in every subway ?
Why is it absurd?
Subway platforms can be crowded, with many people trying to get on and off at the same time. Here, for example, is a little picture of a subway platform in China. When a lot of people are trying to get on and off the train at the same time, not everyone can fit through the same doors.
I thought the doors are automatic and time bound …so no delay. yea, I understand the crowd part.
The doors cannot close if there is a human being standing in between them. When the subway is very crowded, it takes longer for people to get through the crowd to the door (at each stop, some are getting on, others are getting off). I think it is obvious to say that it takes longer to unload 10 people than 1 person, especially if each person has to squeeze through a crowd.
For safety reasons, the train cannot depart unless NOTHING is blocking the doors. If the door touches something as it begins to close, it automatically opens again. The train cannot leave with doors open; it is delayed until the person or thing is no longer blocking the door. This happens more often when the train is full then when it is empty.
“Subway” is the generic term for underground train systems but it is mostly used in New York. Portions of the NYC subway are actually above ground – but most of it is underground. Other cities have other names for their subway systems, such as:
“Metro” is used in DC
“The El” is used in Chicago (most of it is ELevated)
“BART” is used in San Francisco (BART = Bay Area Rapid Transit)
That depends on the particular subway system in question.
Here in Chicago, the “subway” is called the L (or EL, which is an abbreviation for “elevated”, since much of its route is on tracks that are elevated above ground level…only a minority of its route is an actual below-ground subway). L trains are all driven by a human operator, who is responsible for manually activating the system which opens and closes the doors. The operator won’t close the doors until he or she sees that the boarding and de-boarding of the train has ended. (And, even then, if a door hits an obstruction, such as someone getting on or off at the last minute, it’ll bounce open again.)
understood . That helped me a lot. Thanks
Historically, subways are extremely expensive to build. The cost of tunneling is far greater than the cost of laying tracks on top of the ground. When subway systems were first built, the developers stayed underground only as far as absolutely necessary. When they got far enough away from the centers of population they moved the tracks up to the surface to save costs.
Not only are subway stations crowded with people, they can be crowded with trains too. There are sections of track here in DC where two lines join together for 5 or 6 stations. At those junctions, your train often has to wait for traffic from the other line to use the station.
And trains break down too. This causes the trains behind them to have to stop, causing delays underground. So it’s not always a “clear path”- there are other trains in the way!
