He had a less than favorable view of the matter.这里的less than的词义是含有轻微否定的含义的副词短语 表示“并不是太……”的意思吗？如：The job was less than perfect. 这份工作并不是太完美。那这句话为什么网上是翻译的是 他对那种事...
请专家看此句：The news reporter hurried to the airport, only to be told the film star had left.【参考译文】这位新闻记者匆忙赶到机场，结果被告知电明星已经走了。【我的疑问】后半句不定式的用法我看不懂，烦请专家解释一下，谢谢！
Here is way: Everything for sale has something wrong with it, if only the fact that you have to pay for it.里面if only该怎么理解？if only在一起是连词吗？
If only I had known you were coming I would have met your plane.
If only it would snow on Christmas Eve.
Not because I didn’t care about what had happened, but because the enormity of it meant it was simply too difficult to immediately process. 请问it meant后是不是省略了that?
He possibly never knew that this was the same white guy with jittery eyes who had worked at El Nuevo Rodeo, the one so ready with the pepper spray to keep the blacks in line. The one这里分析为同位语还是独立主格？这种情况下该如何判断呢？麻烦老师解答一下。
If he had fought in the First World War, he might have returned ( ). A.a different man B.with a different man C.as a different man D.to be a different man直觉告诉我，选A更合适，可是答案是C。
Jean worked just so much as she was told to.这句话怎么理解？so much as=as mush as?context:But I really had no idea that what Jean has done that Russ should treat her like this.Jean worked just so much as she was told to.
Certainly, some felt that
the time had come to find out once and for all the alphabetic powers of the Chinese script, if any were hidden in its
folds.这里的alphabetic power和folds如何更为准确地理解和翻译呢？
...词典》新编升级版p.768）如果表示对过去情况的推测，用 had to have done 结构。如：If Bley was aboard, he had to have heard me. 如果布雷在船上，他一定会听到我的喊声。（赵振才《英语常见问题解答大词典》增订版第五版p.601）【注】have ...