In Sri Lanka, some 1600
kilometres west of the quake cnetre, the number of deaths stood at 2498, and
one million more were affected by the tsunami, government officicals said.句子来自2019版人教版高中英语新教材必修一的 Unit 4(p54)。请问句中的 stood 是何用法?
...egan in
middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.
My best friend Betsy’s father was a manager at Hough
Bakeries, which, at Easter time, ___41___ little bunny (兔子)
cakes for all its ___42___ throughout Cleveland. It happened that the plant
downtown needed eight ...
The woman’s condition is such that she would have been unable to communicate to staff that she was pregnant or that she had been assaulted.问题1:such that 句型?问题2:would have been unable to 句型?
How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite — once more into “The
Waves” or “Justine,” which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too
much fun to properly belong in serious literature.句中,fall back on中已有介词on, 后面的into是什么用法?是否可以省去?
FEMALE PROFESSOR: So now, the question is, do we
partially restore and rebuild the site before-the entire thing disintegrates? FEMALE PROFESSOR: It will take a lot of funding to
restore it, and, uh, I'm not sure it will be made available. Which would be a
pity. FEMALE PROF...
Edison had a peculiar genius for carrying existing discoveries to the point where they could be converted into practicable devices, and it would be no service to his memory, orto the cause of science which he serves so splendidly, to pretend that he invented by performing solitary miracles.to prete...
...n the continent of North America, the skies and lands were alive with an
astonishing variety of wildlife. Native Americans had taken care of these
precious natural resources wisely.Unfortunately, it took the explorers and the settlers who followed only
a few decades to decimate a large part of these...
These hotspots are significant because they allow us to locate key areas for focusing efforts at conversation.雅思听力这句话,为什么是focusing efforts at conservation 而不是 on呢?
...stration said it will enforce the nondiscrimination clause “by returning to the government's interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word 'sex' as male or female and as determined by biology.”请问老师这里as的并列应该怎么理解,作定语吗?