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bonyonpa
19 giu 2018

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  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)
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Che cosa significa The difficulities is how you even get going in a project as big and as dauting as that. ?

I can't understand what "that" refers to in this sentence.
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ainoneko
19 giu 2018

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)

That, here, is in reference to the big and daunting project.

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SimonLikesArcade
19 giu 2018

  • Inglese (Stati Uniti)
  • Francese (Canada)

Okay, let me try my beat as this gets slightly abstract: First, I'll explain what the sentence mean. Secondly, I'll explain the "that" usage in the sentence. For the first point, imagine you start a very very big project and your friend knows that the project is extremely big. He tells you: "The hard part of your project is setting up a solid base to work on." He's comparing the difficulty of the beginning (being hard) and the rest of the project (being more simple in comparison). In the same way, "The difficulities is how you even get going in a project as big and as dauting as that." refers to how hard starting the project is. Secondly, I'll use another example to help you understand: you go to a らめん restaurant with a friend and you order an gigantic portion. The dish arrives at the table and your friend says "There's no way you can eat a portion as big as THAT" The "that" in the sentence doesn't have a specific value: it is left ambiguous in a manner that the listener understands what the speaker is talking about. The "that" here refers to the exact size of the dish that arrived at the table. In the same way, the "that" in your example does not have any given value, but you understand that it is a general high level of difficulty. Let me know if that doesn't help, I'll try to clear things up! :D - Simon

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