问题 you never get them back 是什么意思

I never lend books; you never get them back. 我的书决不外借，因为总是有去无回。（一般现在时）【※句子出自刘老师对某位网友的解答http://ask.yygrammar.com/q-22653.html】我的疑问是：前一句的意思易懂“我从不把书借出去”，但后面那句...

问题 more than you can help是什么意思

下面的句子摘自2013课标卷I：Try not to cough more than you can help since it may cause problems to your lungs. 尽量少咳嗽，因为咳嗽可能导致你的肺部出问题。请问句子是什么意思？尤其是more than you can help是什么意思？全句是指尽量多咳嗽还是...

问题 be starting用法（关于瞬间动词的进行时表示重复或者将来意义）

瞬间动词的进行时表示重复或者将来意义，经常看到 I am starting to do sth. 在这个句子中既不表示重复也不表示将来，是进行时表示一般时吗？

问题 so long的so和long分别是是什么词性

I haven't been able to be outdoors for so long.这里的so和long分别是什么词性?so是副词如此吗？long是名词长时间吗？如果so是副词，为什么可以修饰名词?

话题 he civilization of China还是 the Chinese civilization

问题 earth前面为什么不用定冠词

这个句子中的 earth 前面为什么没用定冠词？尤其这里是与 the moon 在对照着使用，也没有用定冠词，有点奇怪，求专家解解释：The moon is a satellite of earth. 月球是地球的卫星。

问题 potential disruption 怎么理解

...s this makes FedEx and its rival, UPS extremely difficult to dislodge from their thrones atop the U.S. shipping industry. And yet as dominant as they are, the stalwarts are also vulnerable facing a fresh wave of potential disruption.问题：此句当中 potential disruption 怎么理解呢？

问题 句子中间的同位语前面可以只有逗号

There’s no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency’s costs.为什么considering前没有逗号？

问题 doing作什么成分(请曹老师回答)

Mary Poppins, the film, had been re-released that year; my parents had taken me and my sister to see it. Like masses of other kids, including my nieces and nephews today, we were attracted by a coal-blackened Dick Van Dyke high-stepping across rooftops and the eccentric old British naval officer fir...

问题 up most of the night在句中是做表语还是sick的状语

请问老师，“up most of the night”是做表语，还是sick的状语？

问题 辞书质疑(24)：《牛津英语用法指南》认为不能说the freedom of doing

《牛津英语用法指南》认为不能说the freedom of doing（参见该书第三版翻译版的p564）： 但是，我在牛津高阶英语词典第四版的option词条看到有类似用法：请教各位专家怎么看?

问题 翻译：the democratizing uniformity

There is “the democratizing uniformity of dress and discourse, and the casualness and absence of deference” characteristic of popular culture.红色部分好难理解....the democratizing uniformity翻译为“大众的一致性”吗？absence of deference翻译为“缺乏尊重”？

问题 extract用法

...点或理念自己写了一段文字，这段自己写的文字可以称为the extract of this writing吗?而按照第二种理解extract必须是原封不动的从原文中复制下来的一段，这个该怎么理解。是不是extract做名词指代文章或影视作品等的提取物时必须是...

问题 born to 和 born in 的区别

Born to a family of professional musicians, she sings as beautifully as a nightgale.请问老师：1）句首为什么用born to而不是born in?2) Born to a family of professional musicians这部分称作什么？

问题 It's not just that...(倒不是说 / 不仅仅是)

FEMALE PROFESSOR: Unfortunately many of the original, stained glass windows were thought to be old-fashioned and...and they were actually destroyed, replaced by painted glass.FEMALE STUDENT: They actually broke them? That showed good judgment, real foresight, didn't it?MALE PROFESSOR:&...