1.While we were setting out on a journey,it started to rain.2. Are you in Paris on business or for pleasure?3. Do you want to go out for a walk?4. Susan has been on vacation in Thailand for a month.1 这一类介词短语中, for a walk,for pleasure 是状语表目的吗? 而 on a journey...
... influential, and as co-founder and first president of the Sierra
Club, he was an icon and inspiration to the conservation movement. He is widely
remembered as “the father of the National Parks.”As
a young man, Muir demonstrated an unusual talent for building and maintaining
mechanical devices. ...
...nd the approach to
this food is a bit more gentle.You
will probably have gathered that eating Hakarl is more of a challenge than a pleasure and, in actual fact, it is
usually presented to the unwitting tourist in this light. However, thereare
some who, after tasting it, and this includes myself, li...
...on studying deep into the night. 他读书一直读到深夜。Tired as he was, he went on working. 虽然他累了,他还是继续工作。两个疑问(本质是一回事):1. 这样的用的 go on 及物还是不及物?2. go on 后面的 doing 是动名词还是现在分词?
There will be people anxious that the plan should succeed.1) 上句= There will be people (who are )anxious that the plan should succeed. 是否等于 Some people will be anxious that the plan should succeed ? 一样含义吗?2) 有同学说这里的should是putative用法,是...
But some observers are skeptical, "There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing," says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.请问老师,上述句子中为什么要用being hawked做precision的定语?不能直接用hawked吗,这...
There's nothing worse than having to invent and deliver an opinionon
school league tables or Tom's move to Manchester United, plus listen to
everyone else's opinions, when all you really want to do is enjoy each mouthful
along the way.这里的plus是并列连词,与invent和deliver并列吗?...
There's so much bad, so much not
fun going on," said ringleader Dave Selkirk, a 40-year-old personal
trainer. "It's nice to do something just for the sake of it."这句话的so much bad not fun后面是不是有省略?fun做形容词后面加现在分词?是不是fun后面有省略?可以把ba...
...ituation. 那是一个非常不一般
/ 困难的局面。We checked very carefully. 我们十分仔细地检查过了。She did very well on the test. 她这次考试成绩很好。It was very nice of you to stop by. 你能过来探望,真是太好了。I’m verysorry. 我非常抱歉。“Thank...
...well-paid work but people felt valued, which is often more important.
Also therewas a relaxed atmosphere around the company. The moment the merger was
announced, that kind of evaporated.
It seemed to become tense, people wondering
if the new CEO was going to live up to his reputation for wielding t...
...ore practical. Talk to corporate bosses and, because of the
pandemic, many now believe that they need to give frontline workers more of a
voice.前几天见有老师回答问题时提到“祈使句 and 陈述句”表示条件状语从句,那么这句也可以这么看吗?如果和企业老板...