As bad as he is, he is not without merits (= Bad as he is/Though he is bad, he is not without merits).括号内的同义句，我懂的，分别由连词as和连词though连接前后句子。但是原句我却不明白：As bad as he is...这种句子单独出现了as...as，怎么理解谁和谁比...
It was ___ we had hoped. 选项：A.more a success thanB.a success more thanC.as much of a success asD.a success as much as为何BD不对？这和我看到的句子：A car wasas much a savings vehicle as a way to get from A to B.不就是一样的了吗？as much a vehicle as 和 as much a su...
...urney, attends to himself, but not to his horse.” The body may indeed be
well likened to a horse, and the mind toits rider; for the one is the vehicle
of the other, and whatever be the object of the journey, whether to perform the
most generous actions, or engage in the most patriotic enterprises...
...es of profit, and encouraged by an insatiable popular appetite for
change, isto set all the relations of men in violent motion, and to create
overpowering problems faster than human
wisdom hasas yet been able toassimilate them.human wisdom hasas yet been able toassimilate them. 这里as yet用...
陈述句的强调句It was him that /who I saw on the street last night. 虽然我知道这是强调句的固定公式，不过这应该和定语从句没什么关系吧？not...until句型的强调句普通句：He didn't go to bed until his wife came back.强调句：It was not until hi...
... other is obvious. 看得出他们相互之间很关爱。His
contentment with life was very obvious. 他对生活感到满足是显而易见的。His
satisfaction at / with the result was obvious. 他对结果感到满意是显而易见的。It
seems obvious now, but that’s being wise after the e...
...词短语 overlooking the lake 转换成定语从句，是换作 somehere itis overlooking the lake 还是 somewhere it overlooks lake 呢? 或是两者皆可？即：The plan isto locate the hotel in the place where / where itis overlooking the lake.The plan isto locate the hotel in the place w...
But how strange it was that the creative instinct should seize upon this dull stockbroker, to his own ruin, perhaps, and to the misfortune of such as were dependent on him; and yet no stranger than the way in which the spirit of God has seized men, powerful and rich, pursuing them with stubborn vigi...
... souls of men to pity or terror.""Melodrama.""Why do you mind if you paint well or badly?""I don't. I only want to paint what I see.""I wonder if I could write on a desert island, with the certainty that no eyes but mine would ever see what I had written."Strickland did not speak for a long time, bu...
下面一段是来自2017年高考英语北京卷的听力材料：It’s 8:00 am, and
I’m on the platform at Sullivan Station. I’m waiting for the train to central
station. I’m noticing that they’ve made improvements to this station. It’s
cleaner, there are benches to sit on, and there ar...