...卷真题：Jane’s grandmother had wanted to write a children’s book for many years, but one thing or another always got in the way. 简的祖母多年来一直想写一本儿童读物，但是一件接一件的事情总是妨碍她写书。请问句中的 one thing or another 是什么意思？...
...nbsp; I helped her through the divorce–I know she would do as much for me. [=I know that she would help me if I were going through a divorce] He likes baseball but he likes hockey just as much. “Where is he?” “He's still at home.” “I thought as much.” ...
...e no great difference. The world went on, and no one was a penny
the worse for all that wretchedness. I had an idea that Dirk, a man of greater
emotional reactions than depth of feeling, would soon forget; and Blanche's
life, begun with who knows what bright hopes and what dreams, might just as
well...
...nbsp;Particularly men tend to be less careful and caring when bought gifts forthe same sex.
曹老师您好，答案将bought改成了buying，请问答案这么改是否是因为这个"buy"表示的是一种进行时态(即正在购买礼物的时候，男士们显得更随意)...
...词，其后不定式前面没有to)。3. 薄冰语法： I can do nothing forthem except to send them money. (此处except被看作介词，其后不定式前面有to).4. 牛津词典： I had no choice but to sign the contract. (此处but, 词典标为连词，其后不定式前有to).5. 薄冰...
...party, but he declined it,
observing that he could imagine but two motives fortheir choosing to walk up
and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would
interfere.两位小姐立刻请他来溜达，可是他谢绝了，说是她们俩所以要在屋子里踱来踱去...
...can adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, calling sleep deprivation a "public health epidemic."
...desperately to his companion, who had been water skiing forthe last fifteen minutes. Both men had hardly had time to realize what was happening when they were thrown violently into the sea. The speedboat had struck a buoy,...
...nse of security which makes a home. At any moment I might have been driven
forth by evil accident, by disturbing necessity. For all that time did I say within myself: Some day, perchance, I
shall have a home; yet the "perchance" had more and more of emphasis
as life went on, and at the moment when f...
...ften focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking and social arrangement.译文：根据我个人的研究，女性对丈夫的抱怨通常不是...
It wasn’t until I entered the corporate world that I realized, for me
at least, being friends with colleagues didn’t emerge as a priority at all.翻译1：这不是我进入公司才意识到的，至少对我来说，和同事交朋友并不是最重要的事情。翻译2：这是我进入公...
1.
I arrived there before the train had started to go2.
You are not going out until you have finished this.before通常表示主句的事件发生于从句火车开动前，如，i had arrived there before train
started to go,但如果按照这个逻辑来看第一个句子，会发现从句的时...
...aving a problem and couldn’t
figure out why. She
asked me gently to play for her. I tried, but only an unpleasant sound came
out. She didn’t shout
at me and handed me a new reed (簧片). I put it in place and
tried again. To my great surprise,
I could play well. My problem was solved and my fea...
...tion born between
1980 and 2001 grew up playing sports where scores and performance were played
down because “everyone’s a winner. ” And their report cards sounded more
positive (正面的) than ever before. As a result,
Stanford University professor Carol Dweck, PhD, calls them “the overpra...
...的有一句话：Well over 90 percent of U.S. households are either wired for high-speed broadband or can get high-speed wireless access.此句中“be either done or can do”，可以这样用吗？（两个句子均来自阅读理解的材料。）