Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
though they bore the month better
English answer:
though they did better than others during a difficult month
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B D Finch
Dec 7, 2010 10:32
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though they bore the month better
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Trouble on the Korean Peninsula added to the anxiety taking other global indexes sharply off highs for the year, though they bore the month better (S&P -0.2%).
I am not sure of the meaning. Thank you in advance.
Trouble on the Korean Peninsula added to the anxiety taking other global indexes sharply off highs for the year, though they bore the month better (S&P -0.2%).
I am not sure of the meaning. Thank you in advance.
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though they did better than others during a difficult month
The original has the obvious advantage of brevity.
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Comment: "Thank you everyone"
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Jonathan MacKerron
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they got through the month
with less damage than others suffered - my take
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Catharine Cellier-Smart
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global indexes momentarily lower, but evened out over a whole month
This is another possible interpretation of this sentence.
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they sailed(made it) through the month better than...
They overcame a very difficult month.
Another, more literary word would be "survived".
Another, more literary word would be "survived".
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B D Finch
: "Sailed through" would mean that they did it easily, with no problems: clearly not the case. "Survived" would be neither literary nor accurate.// You might consider nvesting in an English monolingual dictionary.
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Saled through according to Schäfer means: "uberstehen" with no indication of how. /Like the Websters I checked prior to Schäfer. :O
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Stephanie Ezrol
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though they made it through the month better despite the market losses
I think that the dictionary definition here is quite close to your context:
bore
intransitive verb
2: to make one's way steadily especially against resistance <we bored through the jostling crowd
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bore
In your context
the fund made it's way through the month against the resistance (adversity/market fears) created by the trouble on the Korean peninsula with less losses than other funds.
I would guess that the (S&P -.2%) is given to show a contrast with their performance which was presumably better than that. That would normally be inferred by the comment but maybe your text gives more detail.
bore
intransitive verb
2: to make one's way steadily especially against resistance <we bored through the jostling crowd
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bore
In your context
the fund made it's way through the month against the resistance (adversity/market fears) created by the trouble on the Korean peninsula with less losses than other funds.
I would guess that the (S&P -.2%) is given to show a contrast with their performance which was presumably better than that. That would normally be inferred by the comment but maybe your text gives more detail.
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B D Finch
: "Bore" here is the past tense of the verb "to bear", not "to bore".
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