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Reader's question: Could you explain "foregone conclusion"? My comments: "Foregone conclusion" is an inevitable result, or a conclusion formed in advance of argument or consideration. Example: Our victory was a foregone conclusion. This idiom was probably invented by Shakespeare (in Othello), but scholars are not all agreed about this. Today we use it to mean "predetermined outcome" – something anybody could have anticipated, but how we got from Othello to this meaning is a mystery.
Truth lies somewhere in the middle 本文僅代表作者本人觀點(diǎn)，與本網(wǎng)立場無關(guān)。歡迎大家討論學(xué)術(shù)問題，尊重他人，禁止人身攻擊和發(fā)布一切違反國家現(xiàn)行法律法規(guī)的內(nèi)容。About the author: Nelly Min?is a journalist at the China Daily website. | |
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