...sauntered into the long gallery, and there suddenly saw Stroeve. I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate. He looked woebegone and yet ridiculous, like a man who has fal...
Asking for trouble 自找麻烦 It must have been about two in the morning when I returned home. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell, but she was fast asleep, so I got a ladder from the shed in the g...
...链没法放）45题文本：Are you wearing shoes? Why? People wear shoes for many reasons. The first and most important reason is to protect their feet. Shoes keep people from hurting their feet while walking on hard roads. Some people wear special shoes designed to help them play a game. Some peo...
...One morning she told her children about a family she
had visited the day before. There was a man sick in bed, his wife, who took
care of him and could not go out to work, and their little boy. The little
boy—his name was Bernard—had interested her very much. “I wish you could see him,” she s...
...there were a few smith's tools, a couple of torches, and a tinder-box. For he was furnished with that completeness that if the coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and...
...ch of 'will be' (assuming that the direct speech statement happened well before reported speech, 'would have been' instead of 'would be' makes sense without knowing other details that happened since then).But that fact is academic; it's only useful for syntactical analysis. It does not truly change ...
...s.He
lived more poorly than an artisan. He worked harder. He cared nothing for those
things which with most people make life gracious and beautiful. He was
indifferent to money. He cared nothing about fame. You cannot praise him because
he resisted the temptation to make any of those compromises wit...
Had it not been for his skill, he would have fallen a prey to the wolves.句中，fall a prey - 成为猎物1) prey 是不可数名词，为什么可以加a? 是什么意思呢？2）这里的fall是系动词吗？ 系动词后加名词是什么用法？一般只知道系动词+形容词。麻...
...in, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of
paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that
I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay.老师好，上文节选自美国小说《白鲸记》，黑体部分的"that I ever
heard...
...rites here, who was “shrewd and smarter than his critics gave
him credit for, possessed of a survival instinct that was likely unmatched in
American political history”.问题: 请教曹老师，这个大长句子中，as
someone 应该是介词短语作方式状语还是as 比较分句作宾补...
... would aspire to a career.5. Not only has he taken on the burden of caring for his very strong-willed mother when no one would expect it of him.6. Even if she asked, I still wouldn’t help her.Q1:请问句1中的would是表示一种possibility么，类似be likely to，因为说话人也不敢确...
Especially Mr. Skidder, who had cast her in his mind forthe star part in a private, romantic (unspoken) drama in real life. And especially Mr. Hoover, who was forty-five, fat, flush and foolish. 书上是这么翻译的：特别是斯基德先生，莉森小姐早就是他心里暗恋的现实...
...eorgia Institute of
Technology has discovered that elephants use a special form of air suction in
their trunks to pick up food and handle delicate objects. Animals using suction
to handle objects are typically found in water. Many fish perform suction
feeding that requires specialised body parts to ...
辅导班的一道题：
Though he has studied ______ at English for ten months , he can still ______ speak the language.
A. hard; hard B. hardly; hardly
C. hard; hardly D. hardly; hard.
对于句中 studied _______ at English 中的 at 我不太理解...