New arrivals claimed my host's attention, and I was left to myself. When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practised a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the...
Among the US＄3.3 billion in goods it slapped tariff on in May were in Harley-Davidson motorcycles,Kenturky bourbon and Levi’s jeans.1.句子中前面已经有一个slapped，词典中用法是slap sth on sb/sth，后面还有一个were,这里的slap是看作定语修饰前面的it吗...
...f moth or butterfly markings being scary because they look like eyes rests on how we imagine that their predators perceive the markings.这句话动词是rests on 但是because 是修饰前面一句话的 和主句无关。看到状语我该如何判断这个状语到底是修饰谁的呢？
1）She insisted on his/him wearing a suit.insist 后接动名词，中间加了on；2）He insists that she come.insist后直接接that从句，中间不加介词。无论insist后接动名词还是that从句，接的成分都是宾语，但接that从句不用介词，这种情况应该如何...
1. Christmas has been commercialized out of its real meaning.out of its real meaning复合介词做结果状语吗？2. If I don't hand her the earth some day, on a silver platter," Henry had declared, "may I be damned from here to eternity!"on a silver platter做插入语，还是方式状语？
It was next to a piece of paper with a very strange message on it.请问老师这里如果去掉on it 变成paper with a very strange
message 可以吗？with本身不就有"有"的意思吗，例如 a man with a
book，这两个结构有什么区别呢？
...一美国电影演员的文章中有一段话：He also had the distinction
of being number one most searched actor on Google over the entire year.我认为这句话里关于名词actor修饰部分语序有些乱，可否改成…being the actor
searched most times on Google…，或是…being the ...
A yellow banana duct-taped
to a wall sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby's auctionon Wednesday. Let that
sink in. If you're slightly baffled, congratulations -you're in on the
punchline.这句话的congratulations在这里是名词做状语吗？怎么不用副词？
...计划列表或日程安排列表。如：We
had a very crowded schedule on the trip. 我们的旅行日程排得满满的。She
has a very demanding schedule. 她的日程安排非常紧张。The
schedule has been changed a little. 日程安排稍有变化。They
have no fixed schedule. 他们没...
A friend of mine was making two twice the salary of her college instructors her first year on the job.请问句子是主系表的结构吗？A friend of mine主语was系动词making two twice the salary of her college instructors 表语那her first year on the job在句子是做什么成分呀？
...nda is subtly Himalayan, and the mallard sounds like a Brit. Through live conversations with the exhibits, Ashby hopes visitors will learn more than can fit on the labels that accompany the specimens.这句话的more than can 是不是缺少句子成分？不好理解，what can fit on?有这种省...
...osopher St. Augustine famously wrote that he knew what time was unless
someone asked him. Albert Einstein added another wrinkle when he theorized that
time varies depending on where you measure it. Today’s state-of-the-art atomic
(原子的) clocks
have proven Einstein right. Even advanced physics...