But things happened. You had failed to account for the changes that would literally pull you in different directions, that would make you a sort of new person, that would leave one or the other longing to forget about their wild days before adulthood and everything that came with [it]. From a d...
Jonas had told them how the meat that was taken out of pickle wouldoften be found sour, and how they would rub it up with soda to take away the smell, and sell it to be eaten on free-lunch counters; also of all the miracles of chemistry which they performed, giving to any sort of meat, fresh or sa...
But
Tiare Johnson would never under any circumstances have been rich. She could not
keep money. The daughter of a native and an English sea-captain settled in
Tahiti, when I knew her she was a woman of fifty, who looked older, and of
enormous proportions. Tall and extremely stout, she would have bee...
There are very few people who would not like to do it.书上翻译的是没有多少人愿意做这件事,说是主句和从句中的词并不是同时只一个单词,not是用来修饰前面very few people 的。我觉得是不是应该翻译成很少有人不愿意做这件事。This assumptio...
...back abruptly in his seat.If
he had wanted to stand and shout for help, he would not have been able to. His
tongue had swelled to twice its size, and when tried to move it, it stuckhorribly
to the roofof his mouth. His legs were limp.-John
Cheever: The Five-Forty-Eight章振邦新编高级英语语...
...y is the fact that many, like Priya, choose lovers who either could not or would not become a life partner. By falling for someone from a very different class, culture, or generation, we play with possibilities that we would not entertain as actualities.问题:请问play with在文中如何理解...
...ek his
fortune. He was sure that some day the name Hans Christian Andersen would be known all over Denmark.To believe such a story one
would have to believe in fairy tales! Hans Christian knew many
such tales. He had heard some of them from his father, who had worked hard at
his trade, but liked to ...
...社新版本教材选修三Unit 4,p43 中有这样一句话: Although I wouldn't bank on patients feeling confident about seeing a robot doctor any time soon, I'm sure that AI doctors are on the horizon. 2. P47 中有这样一句话: “But the report says that even new, regularly-maintained ...
...eration and the massiveness of the figures was worthy of the repetition it would receive if compared with Poland, Ireland, Portugal in one paragraph and with the Asian countries in the next paragraph.麻烦各位老师帮我看一下这个句子,it would receive是定语从句吗?它的先行词...
I wondered if there was anything I could say that would ease the sense of bitter humiliation which at present tormented Mrs. Strickland. I thought I would try."You know, I'm not sure that your husband is quite responsible for his actions. I do not think he is himself. He seems to me to be possessed ...
How many of us _____,say, a meeting that is irrelevant to us would be interested in the discussion?A attend B attending C to attend D have attended请教老师,我的问题是此句would表达的含义是什么,为什么正确答案是现在分词做定语,而不是不定式做定语呢?其...
His unfailing politeness, seen in such gestures as when he would say goodbye to every volunteer on his way out of a tournament or, just this Monday, when he arrived at Spain's team news conference and made a beeline for the stenographer to shake the hand of the person who would be typing up the tran...
As luck would have it , no one was in the building when the explosion occurred.(真幸运,发生爆炸时大楼里刚巧没有人。)As luck would have it ,there was rain on the day of the picnic.(真不凑巧, 野餐那天下雨了。)问:在以上两句话中,As luck would have it ,应...
I would do as much for my poor brother as for myself; that is, were I under sentence of death, the impression of keen whips I would wear as rubies, and go to my death as to a bed that longing I had been sick for, ere I would yield myself up to this shame.”她说:“ 即使是为了我可怜的...