问题 five-months-old, five-feet-long等的理论依据

...，而且薄冰老师自己也在多本语法著作中提及过two-months-old, four-months-old, four-months-long, five-feet-long之类的用法，除《高级英语语法》外，薄冰老师至少还在以下书中有过类似说法：1.《英语词汇疑难用法解答》（薄冰、司树森）...

问题 travel around the globe 可省略介词吗

Like many young people, Jessica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this 25-year-old is doing it full-time. She and her husband have spent the last two years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It might sound like one long, expensive vacation, but the couple...

问题 好题分享(28)：对比较级省略用法的探讨

...on/56678If this place falls, a lot more people are gonna wind up dead than the ones in that house.该网友问：这个句子的比较项是a lot more people，按道理对应项应该省略，但是后面出现了the ones是对的吗？本网这样类似的问题不少，我发现网友对比较级...

问题 20-year-old这类词有哪些语法特征

类似 20-year-old 这样的词既可以用作形容词也可以用作名词。如：(1) Mary drove. Her ten-year-old daughter sat behind. 玛丽开车，她10岁的女儿坐在后面。（ten-year-old 用作形容词，作定语）(2) She’s quite clever for a ten-year-old. 对一个10岁的孩子...

问题 as...as引导比较状语从句的省略问题

...，最好能删繁就简。比如：I read as many pages as are required.The girl are as busy with their work as bees.Work is as necessary for peace of mind as for health of body.Buying a new bike is sometimes as cheap as repairing the old one is.

问题 one or two...作主语时的主谓一致问题

问题 为什么用36-year-old作后置定语

有这样一个句子：Xandra is an athletic 36-year-old with a 21-year-old’s body. 36岁的汉德拉身体健壮，有着21岁小伙子的体能。这个句子为什么用 36-year-old 作后置定语呢？不是说 36-year-old 只能用作前置定语的吗？

问题 not部分否定

...ne of you is going to come out of here a nobody. I'll work or fight to the bitter end doing battle with society and the school board, but I won't have one of you coming out of here thinking himself into a zero.”1. not one of 的not是副词吗，这是修饰one  of吗？部分否定...

问题 It指代什么(leave it to the creeds to fight it out)

这是整句：Whatevery course the new Queen adopted she would make enemies, while to adopt none would be the worst course of all, since that would leave it to the creeds to fight it out amongst themselves until one had crushed the rest. 整个上下文：This was only one of the problems that...

问题 the one time是什么用法

One of the things I always believe is that no matter how bad something is, you can take something positive out of it．The one time I wasn't sure of that was on September 11．I usually wake up at 6∶30 or 7∶00 in the morning．That day, I happened to wake up earlier．I turned on the TV and I sa...

问题 did better than to do（为什么用to do）

But their parents never explained why he'd been attacked or by whom, or mentioned that the stranger sitting in the living room from then on was a bodyguard - and the children knew better than to ask. 老师好，请问句尾的than “to” ask怎样理解呢，than后面的动词形式通...

问题 an old friend的不同理解

一般认为，an old friend（一位老朋友）指的是关系久远，并不表示朋友的年龄很大，即不等于 a friend who is old。我的疑问是，如果要表示后面的意思呢？怎么办？谢谢！

问题 关于年龄表达的继续讨论

...年龄的表达的结构分析I （主语）am （系动词）five years（old 的程度状语） old（表语）. 此时的中心词是old 名词词组做状语修饰old.今天突然想到一个问题  如果改为 I am under 13 years old.   under 13 years old应该为介词短语做...

问题 its being one 中being和one分别是什么

"When I do myself the honour of speaking to you next on this subject I shall hope to receive a more favourable answer than you have now given me; though I am far from accusing you of cruelty at present, because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first applicati...

文章 tell the difference 错了吗

在一位学生的作业本中，有这样一个句子：Can you tell the difference between the two words? 老师说 difference 应该用复数形式，因为两个词之间的差别不止一处。我认为学生的句子是正确的。例句如下：I never tell the difference (= distinguish) betw...