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4 July
- Simplified Chinese (China)
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Can I use “green” as a verb to express the meaning of “make something‘s colour green”？
For example， Low carton life greens our nature.
Can I use “green” as a verb to express the meaning of “make something‘s colour green”？
For example， Low carton life greens our nature.
For example， Low carton life greens our nature.
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- English (US)
Grammatically, it's not correct at all.
But it's something you may hear sometimes, and people will generally understand it. "Green" being used this way is a little more common nowadays, because it is associated with environmental efforts, but it's still not grammatically correct.
I hope this is helps a bit!
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- English (US)
Grammatically, it's not correct at all.
But it's something you may hear sometimes, and people will generally understand it. "Green" being used this way is a little more common nowadays, because it is associated with environmental efforts, but it's still not grammatically correct.
I hope this is helps a bit!
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
@OldGringo I want to express the meaning of （live a low carbon life ，and Let the future be full of green）. The original sentence has a homonym in Chinese. I want to translate this sentence more beautifully in English. Can you give me some help
- English (US)
@shaddockthebest We often say "live green", or "go green", and we talk about a "green" future, or a "greener" tomorrow (meaning greener than now). So, in English you will hear encouraging sentences like "Let's go green for a greener future.", "Go green now for a greener tomorrow.". Can you use something like this?
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
@OldGringo Thank you, This helps a lot
- English (US)
@shaddockthebest You're very welcome, good luck with your writing!
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