Re: [單字] beggar all human pretense
※ 引述《shimoku (D.C)》之銘言：
: 要問的字詞：beggared all human pretense
: 提問：
: 這幾個字摘錄自TIME.com的文章
: http://goo.gl/mkHE
: 附上完整的句子，請高手幫忙解釋一下，感激。
: Reality had taken its revenge: BP now stood for Biggest Polluter. Indeed, the
: uncontrolled corruption of the spill — the failure of government, business
: and technology to manage an essential, if archaic, resource — beggared all
: human pretense.
It may help if we try to simplify a bit on the sentence structure
BP now stood for Biggest Polluter -->
BP (British Petroleum) has become the biggest polluter
Indeed, the uncontrolled .... -- the failure ....
It is understandable that (the uncontrolled ... spill),
which is a result of
the failure of (the govern... and technology)
to manage an essential resource.
... beggared all human pretense.
This exceeded the limit that we human could put
further lies on.
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