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提高 in Context

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提高

Usage 1 - "to improve": 

*Sentence

大学生要提高学习成绩。

English:

University students should improve their grades.

Top-Down Words:

成绩 chéngjì - grade, achievement



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Comments   2

Micaela Ellison

大学生要提高学习成绩。

Would the meaning of this sentence be the same without the 学习? I'm thinking both 大学 and 提高 provide enough context that the word 成绩 clearly means academic record, as opposed to general success or achievement.

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Mandarin Blueprint

Yeah, I think the context is clear enough in this case where leaving out 学习 would be fine. If anything, you should take away from this sentence that there's more than one type of 成绩 in Chinese, some of them aren't academic in nature.

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