...只好借助于英美语料库。经查阅语料库CORPUS OF CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN ENGLISH，惊奇地发现：long 表时间（不是距离）之前的名词不用复数。结果如下：1. two-month-long：10个例句。2. three-month-long：18个例句。3. four-month-long：12个例句。4. five...
I’ve just claimed that there are no separate male and female senses for friend. Does the following dialogue prove this wrong?Jane: Do you have a friend?Julia: Yes, Sue is my friend.Jane: No, I didn’t mean a friend, I meant a friend.Julia: Oh, yeah. Perry and I have been together for five years.O...
...se, if you are a non-human species,
collapse is well underway.The call for public
engagement with the unthinkable is especially germane in this moment of
still-uncontrolled pandemic and economic crises in the world’s most technologically
advanced nations. Not very long ago, it was also unthinkable...
... of goods and services would show up as consumption goods and services for American households.而额外产生的1万亿美元商品和服务中有一半会表现为美国家庭的消费品和服务。问：数量单位词：hundred ,thousand,million等，要么“数词+数量单位词的单数后...
...哪些成分呢？我看不明白3、This was, New York apart, the first American city I had ever been in where people actually lived downtown. 4、He weaved around the tables to where she sat with Bob. 问题2:请教曹老师，您在一个问题中说，where不能作in, to, at 的宾语，但...
...r Mongolia, or XinjiangThese houses are sold at such a low price as people expected.以上两个例句such都位于名词前，为限定词；看到曹老师解答过，以上两句都是as引导比较分句修饰such;问题1：我感觉以上两句都是修饰名词词组的，不明白为啥曹老...
...他妻子外，他女儿也去看过他(即妻子女儿都去看过他)。Nobody went to see
him except [but] his wife. 除他妻子外，没有一个人看过他(即只有他妻子去看过他)。注：在否定句中，besides 也表示“除……之外不再有……”，与but, except 同义...
Confidence is probably one of the most noticeable traits in the Americans. They show confidence in the way they talk, the way they smile, the way they dress and the way they walk.
我个人理解:当the way在主句和从句中同时都是做状语时，是无法区分这个由the way引导的从...
...een are against it. A. six-storeys; Yes B. six storeys; Yes C. six-storey; No D. six –storeying; No 答案为C。请分析一下这个题。这种情况用什么作定语？six-storeys, six storeys, six-storey 的区别是什么？
... psychologically ready to sit down at the bargaining table, it’s time to figure out what you need to get out of the deal. Sit down with a sheet of paper, fold it down the middle, and label each half “deal points” and “trading points”. Then list all the points you need to reach agreeme...
1. have a...knowledge of sth 是固定搭配吗？在类似这样的用法和搭配中是不是必须要用不定冠词？
He has a good knowledge of mathematics. 他的数学(知识)很好。
He has a wide knowledge of history. 他有广泛的历史知识。
It is necessary to have a good ...
...词补充成分，介词只有6个分别是in、besides、beyond、but、expect、save，并没有after。2、Things such as these are the best themes.我的第二个问题：这里的“such as”是诸如、此类的意思吗？如果是，那么such as“诸如、此类”后面结句子的...
...t a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is tested in animals-no meat, no fur, no medicines. Asked if she opposed immunizations, she wanted to know if vaccines come from animal research. When assured that they do, she replied, ...
CNN:Manufacturing hasn't been as fast as some experts expected and states have reported problemsdistributing the vaccines through hospitals and doctor's offices because some of these places say they don't have\enough workers to both care for their patients and serve as vaccination clinics.请教老...
...词典》p.192）
for free 免费地，无偿地,
义务地：I wasn’t expecting you to do it
for free. 我没有指望你白干。（摘自《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》第8版p.803）
for
certain肯定地，确切地, 无疑地：I
can’t say for certain when we’ll arrive....