He squared his shoulders, saluted, and held the book out toward the woman,
although even while he spoke he felt the bitterness of his disappointment. ①spoke在这里不是短暂动词吗,为什么用while不用when?②前面的even是修饰后面的整个从句吗?
The Winter Olympic Games has promoted many home-grown brands like Anta, Li Ning and Peak to global star brands.grow和brand为主谓关系,句中的home-grown brands是否可以home-growing brands?
Many of the animals were in prime condition and had more body fat than is customary for animals arriving from the wild.请问is customary for在此处是什么用法?感觉可以直接去掉?
Remember when I showed you that financial planners who charged you 1%
of your assets under management were slowly, surreptitiously siphoning away
your money and charging you for (what) was
almost assuredly underperformance in your investments. 请问括号里的(what)指代的是?
The U.S. doesn't
even rank in the top 40. But is also was included "because we live
here" andbecause of past, bold estimates that life expectancy in the U.S.
might surge dramatically in this century, Olshansky said.这句话的but is also有省略吗?感觉很怪,补全是怎么样的?
The last man to face-andbeat-Nadal, 80th-ranked Botic van de Zandschulp, who is 29, spoke after his 6-4,6-4 victory about idolizing the Spaniard.这句话spoke 应该接后面这个about吧?为什么这里有两个6-4?