Here~~(*^__^*) Can anybody help me understand this sentence?Thank you all so much...............
I read an English sentence and I just couldn't get the meaning..
"A decade ago some observers predicted that internet banking would render retail banking from high-street obsolete.''
I guess 'render' here means 'cause',Is this a right sentence?I guess it should be'A decade ago some observers predicted that internet banking would render retail banking obsolete from high-street.

Q1,what does 'high-street' mean?I guess here it means a major business area in city?
Q2 which one is right,my sentence or the original one??
Thanks a lot.(*^__^*)

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Here~~(*^__^*)  Can anybody help me understand this sentence?Thank you all so much...............
I read an English sentence and I just couldn't get the meaning..
"A decade ago some observers predicted that internet banking would render retail banking from high-street obsolete.''
I guess 'render' here means 'cause',Is this a right sentence?I guess it should be'A decade ago some observers predicted that internet banking would render retail banking obsolete from high-street.

Q1,what does 'high-street' mean?I guess here it means a major business area in city?
Q2 which one is right,my sentence or the original one??
Thanks a lot.(*^__^*)

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Render in this case does mean to cause. The sentence is saying that the use of internet banking would cause "real" banks to go out of business. 
To answer question 1:
High-street is a British word, it's another name for a street in a town where most businesses are located (Banks in particular). The equivalent American English word would be "Main Street."

Question 2:
The answer is both are correct. It's more a matter of style. Both sentences convey the same meaning.

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1.High-street is the main shopping area of a town, but can also be used to describe things that are easily available to buy, such as clothes or furniture.

2.The first sentence is correct. It would make slighlty more sense, if there was a comma, so...  "A decade ago some observers predicted that internet banking would render retail banking, from THE high-street, obsolete.'' (because the high-street bit doesn't need to be there, it would still make sense without it)

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Ans no 1. I guess,  high street means market made by general public. 
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/high+street
Ans no. 2. I guess, its meaning is like, Internet banking will give life to retail banking which otherwise is being obsolete.

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