...th-East Asia andthe Middle East. The contrast with Wikipedia and Twitter, which skew much more modem, is striking: Russian suddenly becomes a peripheral node. Chinese, too, is peripheral inthe authors’ networks. Inthe book-translation network, the world’s most spoken language is i...
Corky Siemaszko’s snapshots provide us with an insight intothe mood of the American people following inthe tragic events of 9/11. They start with two pieces written inthe immediate of aftermath of the attack.These snapshots clearly reveal the state of chaos intowhich New Yorkers felt they had ...
...fidence at any time.It’s something of
a cliché (陈词滥调) that most people learn not from their successes
but their mistakes. The thing is, it’s true. Whatever the mistake, remember it isn’t a fixed aspect of your
personality. We’re all changing and learning all the time and mistakes
ar...
...ith family
lived in a small community. As the economy was in decline, some peopleinthetown had lost their jobs. Many of their families were struggling to make ends
meet. People were trying to help each other meet the challenges. Mrs. Meredith was a most
kind and thoughtful woman. She spent a grea...
... their last days. Curtin is CEO of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C., which recovers food and turns it into healthy meals. Last year it recovered more than 807,500 pounds of food by taking donations and collecting blemished (有瑕疵的) produce that otherwise would have rotted in fields. And ...
...d asking questions. Why can certain plants trap harmful bacteria (细菌)? Which kinds of
fish can eat cancer-causing chemicals? With the right combination of animals
and plants, he figured, maybe he could clean up waste the way nature did. He
decided to build what he would later call an eco-machine...
...ected) and have
drawn up a map for local people, forecasting the year inwhichtheir homes will be swallowed up by the hungry sea. 这句 forecasting 是什么状语？有人说陪衬性状语，有没有官方点说法？为什么不是结果或者时间还是方式状语？
...ulpture, such as… 这里rangingfrom 也做定语修饰art works 省略了which were吗？
3.Normally a bone becomes fossilized through the action of groundwater,
permeating the bone, washing away its organic components and replacing them 这是错误句子这里permeating 做伴随修饰bone了...
...bsp;live in society is the real people, which we all agree. Andin order to make our society civilized and harmonious. I believe that all of us need to com...
...by a local charity (慈善组织) to reduce loneliness and improve elderly people’s wellbeing. It is also being used to help patients suffering dementia, a serious illness of the mind. Staff in care homes have reported a reduction inthe use of medicine where hens are in use.翻译：该项目是...
...s changed the
original meaning of emotional (情感的) intelligence. Many people now misunderstand
emotional intelligence as almost everything desirable in a person’s makeup that
cannot be measured by an IQ test, such as character, motivation, confidence,
mental stability, optimism and “people ...
...decided to dismantle it. The garden was soon littered with
chunks of metal which had once made up a lawn mower. But I was extremely
pleased with myself. I had traced the cause of the trouble. One of links inthe
chain that drives the wheels had snapped. After buying a new chain I was faced
with the ...
Written orders for the withdrawal of separate lots of grain by owners
whose crops had been deposited there for safety and convenience, or which had
been compulsorily deposited tothe credit of the king, soon became used us a more general method of payment of debts to other
people, including tax gath...