Can you explain me this sentence?
"Grandparents and elders are inspiring figures to children around the world."
It's from UNICEF tweet.
I don't understand what "figures to" means in this sentence.
Can you explain me this sentence in any other way?
Thank you so much!
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Answers · 5
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They are trying to be a bit fancy. The word figures can be left out of the sentence and it means the same thing. Grandparents and elders are inspiring to children around the world.
In this case Figures is used to mean "respected people" in the children's lives.
Hope this helps
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A figure is a person of influence, in this case.
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En ce cas je pense que le mot "figures" voudrait signifier "modèles, exemples"...ex: on estimait qu'ils sont des exemple pour tous les enfants...you have to take "inspiring figures" to translate the sentence because here TO is simply a connector to signify "pour" dans ce cas.
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inspiring figures to children=== davranışlarıyla çocuklara örnek olmak
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