...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...
... 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...
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...
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 ...
...as a baby to look after.please pass me a pen to write with.who is to blame forthe car accident?There are several houses to rent.With a lot of questions to answer,Mr.Zhang didn't go home last night.There is nothing to fear/to be feared.your question is easy to answer.the box seems leavy to carry...
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...
A beautiful girl about my age, she bought the ticket for me when hearing that I had lost my wallet.有人说这个句子中的 a beautiful girl about my age 是同位语。但我不明白，为什么同位语可以放到放到前面去呢？同位语一般是放在后面的吧！请专家老师解...
...now today. Bagrit dismissed the idea that computers would learn to
'think' forthemselves and would 'rule the world', which people liked to
believe in those days. Bagrit foresaw a time when computers would be small enough to hold in the hand, when
they would be capable of providing information about...
... said to Anne.——>Father asked Anne when she went to bed the night before.我的问题在于，涉及到时态的转换时，既然已有“直接引语是一般过去时，间接引语里要用过去完成时”的规则，那在上述句子里为什么时态没有发生变化？————...
...，可读性很强。He was promoted after leading a well-managed division for several
years. 在领导一个管理完善的部门好几年之后，他获得升迁。Dave amazed his friends by leaving a well-paid job to travel around the
world. 戴夫辞去一份高秦的工作去周游世界，这...