But when at last I met Charles Strickland, it was under circumstances which allowed me to do no more than just make his acquaintance. One morning Mrs. Strickland sent me round a note to say that she was giving a dinner-party that evening, and one of her guests had failed her. She asked me to stop t...
...ut through so decisive a victory by one of the great powers that it will be able to dictate and enforce international law, as Rome did from Augustus to Aurelius.老师好，句子能看懂，这个倒装为什么能这么用呢，so在这里什么意思，我自己的理解还原句子：A...
"I can't have it moving around if I'm going to make it part of a circuit, and I can't anesthetize it without vitiating the experiment.后半句中文是 而且在不破坏实验的情况下也无法对其进行麻醉，我觉得中文和英文没法对应上，正常的翻译不应...
...单此，它主要表示选择，其意为“或”“还是”等。如：It’s a lovely baby.
Is it a boy or a girl? 宝宝真可爱，是男孩还是女孩?He speaks French, or
perhaps he understands it. 他会讲法语，或者他懂法语。另外，or还可以表示一种否定的条件，相...
...法越来越普遍，尤其是美国英语。例如：A:
Who’s there?B:
It’s me.He
thought Richard to be me.It’s
me who runs the school.It
isn’t me that makes fun of him.中国著名学者周海中在1982年发表的《英语代词Me的一些用法》一文中指出：在分裂句(the
cleft ...
...glish Usage2004”的书中P534：The most extended use of than as a
preposition is to be seen in nonstandard usage such as: He wanted it more than what I did.（非标准英语）Such constructions provide an empty object
for than but ensure the use of the subject pronoun in the following clause. I...
But I think the conversation never settled down so comfortably as when it turned to the details of the trade which was the other side of the art we practised. When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author ha...
But the striking thing about the company is how much of a chance it has of achieving such unprecedented goals.请问：how much 是做状语修饰 has 吗？为什么后面有个 of？为什么不能写成：how much it has a chance of achieving such unprecedented goals.？
...a brighter promise for the hopeful traveler who has sworn to get away from it all. 这里的a brighter promise for the hopeful traveler who has sworn to get away from it all到底是paradox的同位语，还是句子的第二个表语呢？
It could be anything—gardening,cooking,music,sports—but whatever it is,______(make)sure it's a relief from daily stress rather than another thing to worry about.填的答案是make。第二个破折号（红色的）在语法上有什么功能？but连接的是哪两个句子？
...y steps
people should aim for per day in order to get enough physical activity, they’ll
probably tell you 10, 000.But is there any medical reason to
embrace this number? Not really. That’s because the 10, 000-step-a-day
recommendation has nothing to do with sedentary, fast-food-drenched circa-20...