原句是It turned from God and the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and instead favoured a more humanistic approach to being. 这里的to being十分奇怪？！百思不得其解~
...子：Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has been quoted as saying that the old and infirm "have a duty to die and get out of the way," so that younger, healthier people can realize their potential.翻译：用前科罗拉多州州长xxx的话来说，年老体弱者“有责任死去...
As if in keeping with the sadness of departure, the weather had turned gloomyy1) in在上句何意，可否去掉，变成As if keeping with...？2) as if 后接do/doing/done形式都可以吗？3) 为什么主句使用了过去完成时had turned, 而不是一般过去时turned？我没想通，我...
Therefore
to increase the yield of the targeted products, many
factors are taken into consideration.这个句子是对的吧？这里的to increase的逻辑主语是省略了吗？因为肯定不是many factors。
... desert plain, a dry lake bed in California surrounded by mountains and on the desert floor these huge rocks, some of them hundreds of pounds.这是托福TPO4听力中的一段话，其中on the desert floor these huge rocks感觉不通顺，没有谓语或者非谓语，these huge rocks是当同位...
So
the results of China’s seventh census, conducted last year and released on May
11th, were big news.本句中，conducted修饰China’s seventh census，而released修饰the results，尽管通过逻辑判断不会出现歧义，但我觉得不够优化。各位老师怎么看？
1) I wonder if parents should always tell the truth no matter the consequences.matter本身为名词，no matter后面直接接名词，no matter词性是什么？用法是什么？2) What if later in life they come to know a metaphorical door, like an opportunity of some sort...这里的of some ...
They know everything that is happening on the place. They are aslikely
to get as depressed, miserable or suicidal as the next man.
请问这里出现三个as，怎么解释，这三个as之间关系如何，各自做什么成分呢？
The evening conversation, when they were all assembled, had lost much
of its animation, and almost all its sense, by the absence of Jane and
Elizabeth.他们一家子晚上聚在一起聊天的时候，Jane和Elizabeth不在场，谈话就没有了活力，而且几乎是完全失去了意义。请...
When I was waliking through theforest, a bear came out.When I walked through theforest,a bear came out.第二句有语法错误吗？When she left she made herself an omelet.这句话，为什么是离开后煎了一个蛋?如果离开后怎么不用After?
The physicist has made a discovery , which I think is of great importance to the progress of science and technology. 为什么which 引导的非限制性定语从句中会出现think 和 is 两个谓语 ，想通过句子结构分析了解为何会存在两个谓语。
...的to make 也是非谓语动词这里是两个非谓语动词连用吗？The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper—printing presses, delivery trucks—isn’t just expensive; it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial constraints.