One Example of the Ellipsis

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Relationships exist and take place throughout the paragraphs of a particular prose, an essay, an article, or a book writing, that is, Dano says. In other words, there are inter-paragraphical relationships as well as intra-paragraphical relationships, Dano emphasizes.

Text:
Not if the regulators in China are on the take. The head of the China branch of one of the biggest Canadian banks told me in 1997 that the bank transferred several thousand dollars once from its Hong Kong branch to its Shanghai branch and it took eighteen days for the transfer to clear. "We think we know what happened," the banker told me one day over lunch in Shanghai. "Someone in the Central Bank took the money, speculated with it on the Shanghai stock exchange for seventeen days and then put it back on the eighteenth day, when the money showed up in our account." (The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, p.149) (The Korean version, p.270)

Dano's comments:
Relationships are everywhere. In the paragraphs, between paragraphs, and even between books themselves. Nonetheless, the Korean translators have gotten their eyes glued to the particular words, phrases, and sentences that they have been reading. Lift your eyes aloft to the relationships, and you'll see a new world.

Prevarication by equivocation arises because the translator does not see the relationships that the bold-typed sentence has got. Remember I've told you before that the relationships exist between the paragraphs, and you'll recognize that the bold-typed sentence is related to the last sentence of the previous paragraph.

........The Chinese sign a deal with them, get their technology and then change the rules and tell them to go out. Will they get out alive? (ibid, The Lexus and the Olive Tree) Thus the bold-typed sentence Not if the regulators in China are on the take is the answer of the last sentence of the previous paragraph.

Not if the regulators in China are on the take is an ellipsis, so the complete form will turn out
=>(You'll) Not (be able to get out alive) if the regulators in China are on the take. The relevant paragraphs mention the kleptocracy rampant in China. By kleptocracy you mean the rule by and custom of stealing and robbing.