understandable?
English translation: The substance of this invention....
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|  Selected response from: Jack Doughty United Kingdom Local time: 07:12 | ||||||
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| 2 +4 | The substance of this invention.... |
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| 5 | yes |
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| 3 | I'd leave out the comma before composed |
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I'd leave out the comma before composed Explanation: and replace basically composed of by essentially composed of the rest is perfect patent language, nicely ambiguous |
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15 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4The substance of this invention.... Explanation: I think this is the term you need at the beginning of the sentence. Are you sure you haven't got "component" in there once too often? It seems to me that it should read: The substance of this invention should include the basic constituents, as well as the aforementioned non-essential constituents, and components composed of these constituents, or basically composed of these constituents. That makes more sense to me, but I don't know whether it conveys all the meaning of the original Chinese. |
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