"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...
The most powerful
earthquake in the past 40 years caused a tsunami that crashed into coastlines
across Asia yesterday, killing more than 6,500 people inIndonesia, India,
Thailand, Malaysia, and at least four other countries. Fishermen, tourists,
hotels, homes, and cars were swept away by huge waves...
Scientists have known for years about the likely existence of “tipping points” in the world’s climate when global heating triggers abrupt or self-reinforcing changes.请问句中when global heating triggers abrupt or self-reinforcing changes.做什么成分呢？感觉应该不是时间状语...
... had doubts. I wanted to quit. But, like Revere’s horse, I kept going. I worked hard.
I checked my spelling. I asked my older sister to correct my grammar. I checked
out a half dozen books on Paul Revere from the library. I even read a few of
them. 翻译：马在黑夜中疾驰时在想什么？...
Southbank, at an eastern bend in the Thames, is the center of British skateboarding, where the
continuous crashing of skateboards left your head ringing. I loved it. I soon
made friends with the local skaters. We spoke our own language. And my
favorite: Safe. Safe meant cool. It meant hello. It mean...
... anyone that I could really talk to,
until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara,
six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither
a mechanic nor any passengers, I set myself to attempt the difficult repairs
all alone. It was a question of life or deat...
Make sure the firm is competent to carry out the work.Make sure the firm is competent to carry the work out.carry out the work 和carry the work out 有什么区别？前者应该理解成动词短语 carry out 加宾语还是动词carry 加介宾作宾语更合适？ carry the work out 中的 out...
J.B.Watson reduced thinking to inhibited speech located in the minute movements or tensions of the physiological mechanisms involved in speaking; and although Ryle is careful to point out that there are many senses in which a person is said to think and in which words are not in evidence, he has als...
...，如何无光时寻找猎物。Given the questions of how to manoeuvre in the dark, what solutions might an engineer consider? The first one that might occur to him is to manufacture light, to use a lantern or a searchlight.这里的to use a lantern or a searchlight（不像是与manufacture light...
...们：These things did not happen to these people because they were lazy or stupid. They happened because of addiction. New college students，even the brightest and most successful ones，are most at risk from these effects because the Internet is important for their studies and because they are ju...