find A adj. to do
The text below is an excerpted paragraph from a book review on the book entitled The Ottoman Endgame, which examines the final years of the empire. I have an unsure point (please see the blacketed part) as to this.
[Mr McMeekin(the author) finds it easy to imagine the world as it appeared to the young masters of the Ottoman realm, as they and their Teutonic allies faced the combined forces of Russia, Britain and France]; and he brings alive the memory of tsarist commanders like Nikolai Yudenich and the titanic battles they fought in wild places like Van and Erzurum, with ghastly consequences for civilians on the wrong side.I normally interpret the word "find" in an expression like "find it adj. to do" as "consider," "judge," or "deem," so I construed the blacketed part "the author judges that it is easy to picture the world in the way it was seen/revealed to the young masteres..., when they and their Teutonic allies(i.e., Germany and Austria) were confronted by the combined forces of..."
Is my understanding proper?
Thank you for reading to this end. I'd be deeply greatful if you would explain it or paraphrase the part.
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Answers · 2
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Hi Satomi_N,
I would say your reasoning and conclusion are right.
Best regards,
Antonio
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In short, yes your understanding is correct.
“Finds it adj. to do” means that the person has identified that that action is adj.
So if I say “I find it hard to read long novels”, I am saying that when I try to read long novels, I discover it to be hard.
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