In
England, on the contrary, the metropolis is a mere gathering-place, or general
rendezvous, of the polite classes, where they devote a small portion of the
year to a hurry of gayety and dissipation, and, having indulged this kind of
carnival, return again to the apparently more congenial habits of...
...朱原等译商务印书馆1998年8月第1版）P35：allow
1【+v-ing】Walking
on the grass is not allowed. 不准践踏草地。笔者注：该词典认为allow后面可以接V-ing形式作宾语，然而却收录V-ing形式在被动句中用作主语的例句，犹抱琵琶半遮面，为何不...
...w a man making his way towards me. 我看到一名男子向我走来。She watched the kids playing in the yard. 她看着孩子们在院子里玩。我看一些动名词复合结构的用法挺实用的。像是做主语，把动名词复合结构看作一个宾语。还有别的网站介绍现在...
I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done. 1、 教材上说content是形容词做状语，是不是being content的省略形式？是不是没有be content in sth的用法...
...ne has a mobile phone, why are
more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline (座机)?These days you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia over
the age of 15 who doesn’t own a mobile phone. In fact plenty of younger kids
have one in their pocket. Practically everyone can...
...23就问题句而言，what应该保留，这是因为动名词短语assigning these rankings to various usages的语义决定的，what 仅指代了主语的一部分rankings. 现在我们忽略这个语义，把句子主语再改一下：These rankings are much more helpful than what one finds in ...
Lately,
though, water is scarce on Almeida's modest farm in Caconde, a town inone of
Sao Paulo state's key growing regions. He can't get his coffee to grow the way
it should.这句话的to grow 是无及物动词吧，后面the way充当什么句子成分？
Before setting off, Bedeau directed me to choose a walking stick from a pile leaning against the outside wall of a small store selling snacks and souvenirs.上文中的selling可以还原成which sells吗？是不是有些分词作定语是已经非常成形的固定表达，如selling不可以轻...
Q1:Original text:So, faced with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle but harried the enemy.MCQ:8 So, ____ with the Danish advance, Alfred did not risk open battle.(a) he was faced (b) on being faced (c) he faced (d) in the faceThe answer is (b)我的问题：on 是不是可以理解...
...词recognisably而不用形容词recognisable? 附全文供参考：Certain
forms of AI are indeed becoming ubiquitous. For example, algorithms (算法)
carry out huge volumes of trading on our financial markets, self-driving cars
are appearing on city streets, and our smartphones are translating f...
I had no difficulty in identifying him, standing there with the book gripped firmly inone hand.A book had seemed the natural choice, as it had been those notes in the margins of another that had brought us together in the first place. He was right on time, just as we had scheduled. I liked that. It...