The linguist, on the other hand, studies the language of all persons alike; the individual features in which the language of a great writer differs from the ordinary speech of his time and place, interest the linguist no more than do the individual features of any other person's speech, and much...
我记得有个知识点时名词前有序数词修饰，后面用不定式做定语。He is the first man to come and last to leave. 而 Some of the poetry written in English is nurery rhymes. 这句话里为什么不用to be written做定语呢？求教 谢谢
说老子的。He accordingly emerged a grown man with a full grey beard and long earlobes, which are a symbol of wisdom and long life。这里emerge各种词典查过了，是不及物动词，为什么后面可以跟宾语a grown man？
a European bird of the crow family, with bright feathers and a noisy call[with bright feathers and a noisy call]修饰【a European bird of the crow family】？
I never thought myself odd not playing with other children. Nor did I think that they didn’t want to play with me.1）粗体划线部分thought myself odd not playing的结构为何是这样？否定词not为何出现在中间？句子怎么翻译？2）I didn’t think that they didn’t want to ...
...多了，你中有我我中有你，使人傻傻分不清楚，如He
lives on/off the Park Avenue.还有on和away都可以表示“继续下去”；最后即使把某个介词所有释义都搞明白了，在阅读中也经常出现无法解释的短语，如call
on sb/call on sb to do sth拜访某...
A great grandmother of mine,who was a friend of Gibbon,lived to the age of ninety-two,and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants.老师请问这个句子中remain是a grandmother of mine 的谓语吗? 还有to her last day是不是状语?但是有to her last day这种用法吗为...
Babies cry to
call attention to their immediate needs: food, or rest, or a diaper change or
cuddles. But without intending to, crying babies might also provide insight
into a defining trait that will develop later in life. As Matt Stevens of the
New York Times reports, a new study has found that the...
“Before the operation, I would look at
someone and all I could see for their face was jelly,” says Jonathan Wyatt.
“Now, I can see people's faces." would在这是表过去反复发生的动作吗？还是别的意思？
Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship,as at something wholly beyond his comprehension.请问as at something wholly beyond his comprehension这里是as (a savage looks ) at something wholly beyond his comprehension.的...