...。We'd gone up to the city, my husband and I, to see a friend of his from college. He was doing well for himself now, a businessman living in a high-class apartment on the Magnificent Mile. It was a treat for us to get away like this, on the rare occasions we could get a baby-sitter.谢谢。
...句话的前后文如下：Stress patterns may distinguish a compound word from a noun phrase consisting of the same component words. For example, a black board, adjective plus noun, is any board that is black, and has equal stress on both elements.When said in isolation, additional prosodic stress ...
...来源于以下这段话：The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? Onone star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted, I took him in my arms and rocked him.
... Atacama Desert, some three miles up the coast and almost two miles inland from its initial anchorage.请问老师，①off是什么用法呢？是作状语修饰anchored吗？如果是，那就是跟in the harbor of Arica属于并列关系对吗？②some是什么用法呢？是指代什么吗？so...
...a
scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had received pleasure from
the society of a man in any other colour. As for their mother, Mr. Collins's
letter had done away much of her ill-will, and she was preparing to see him with
a degree of composure which astonished her husband and daughte...
...has always had bragging rights. The partial transfer of legislative powers fromWestminster, implemented by Tony Blair, was designed to give the other members of the club ---- Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales --- a bigger say and to counter centrifugal forces that seemed to threaten the very ide...
Just as on smoking,vioces now come from many quarters insisting that
the science about global warming is incomplete.
1.请问这里的insisting that the science about global warming is
incomplete是voice的定语还是同位语？
2.在insisting前加一个逗号可以理解为现在分词作状...
According to a
new study from market analysts, 1 in 5 Britons say that watching cookery
programmes on TV has encouraged them to try different food. Almost one third
say they now use a wider variety of ingredients (配料) than they used to, and
just under 1 in 4 say they now buy better quality ingre...
Now that we have some space on the disk, we need to add some machinery
higher up in the system in order to support swapping pages to and from the
disk.
请教各位老师，higher up是修饰介词短语in the system，还是名词machinery呢？
...里的那样：It’s too hot in here.(in here是个介词短语)The sound from upstairs woke me up.(from upstairs是个介词短语)2)over there到底是“两个单独的副词分别作way的后置定语”还是“一个介词短语作way的后置定语”？2.有时能够见到这样的表述：...
...高中英语一篇短文BOOK 1 – Unit 1 Focus on reading（Too far away from it all?），请老师帮我翻译一下，谢谢！A new TV series in England, Away from it all, has surprised everyone by becoming a huge success with young people across the country. Its success is surprising beca...
...ng cars
are appearing on city streets, and our smartphones are translating fromone
language into another. These systems are sometimes faster and more perceptive
than we humans are. But so far that is only true for the specific tasks for
which the systems have been designed. That is something that s...
Although Backholer believes it is up to individuals to make their own decisions when it comes to their
dietary choices, with one in four Australian children now suffering from
obesity, she is calling on the government to step in and take action.