The
story is one of scores in To Forgive Design:Understanding Failure,
a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean to its
breakdowns. Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about
disasters. In this book he includes the loss ofthe space shuttles Challenger
and Colu...
... 我不在时请代理我处理事务。We have no real conception of what people suffered during the war. 我们无法确切了解战时人们的苦难。但是下面这句为什么没有用定冠词呢？Students must remain in residence during term. 学生于学期中必须住校。
...nce, making a tour of Europe, stopped at Venice for a
short period. It was the close of summer; （1）the
Adriatic was calm, （2）the
nights were lovely, （3）and
the Venetian women in the full enjoyment of those delicious spirits, that, in their climate, rise and fall with the
coming and the d...
Many Yoga exercises involve putting the body into difficult positions. Some ofthem are very hard to learn. Have you ever tried to fold your legs over one another? Thisis one ofthe basic Yoga positions. Itis called the lotus position.involve putting如果翻译为“需要身体摆出困难的姿...
Healthy people know not focus on anger. At the end ofthe day, they walk away. They choose to end it. And it's an easier choice that they should next time.老师，问题在最后一句：1. should后...
One main reason why so many people are unable to keep a balance between
work and leisure is that the coupling of increased workloads with technology
has kept people constantly （） to their jobs.请问（）中应该填connected还是being connected?
... us of your own free will it would have been a different thing," said the baronet, "you only told us, or rather your wife only told us, when it was forced from you and you could not help yourself.""I didn't think you would have taken advantage ofit, Sir Henry -- indeed I did...
What a good listener is able to do is to process what he hears on the basisofthe context _________. A.it occurring in B.occurring in it C.it occurs in 为什么答案是C？ A 和B 为什么不行？
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.老师，把 the best of times 的 of times 是同源形容词吗,因为时间没有形容词吧？还是 the best of 看成固定搭配。老师，在阅读时，不构成阅读影响前提下，是否不再分析它的语法成分，知道它原...
...hat crashed into coastlines
across Asia yesterday, killing more than 6,500 people in Indonesia, India,
Thailand, Malaysia, and at least four other countries. Fishermen, tourists,
hotels, homes, and cars were swept away by huge waves caused by the strong
earthquake that reached a magnitude of 9.0. Th...
向尊敬的曹老师请教！！1. The food, such as itis, is plentiful. 食物不是很好，但量很多.2. You may use my bike, such as itis. 尽管我的自行车不好，你可以将就着用吧。问题：1句和2句的such是啥词性呢？ 我感觉不是代词而是形容词，as引导...
...文*how they worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better partof me?”应译“当你确是我比较大的部分的时候”，all 不是“全部”，它只含有 quite 或 so much 等表程度的意思。如视同 all at once (忽然) 或 all of a sudden (突然)中的a...