... reason for optimism is the plunge in energy costs. Not only has the price of oil halved in the past six months, but natural gas is the cheapest it has been in a decade, bar a few panicked months after Lehman Brothers collapsed, when the world economy appeared to be imploding.我不明白之处...
...if the general did not
carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the
wrong?“ the king demanded. “The general, or myself?”这里两个if从句都是虚拟语气 主句也是虚拟语气，if the general did not carry
out the order that he had received, 这里order...
...that the day before his retirement, he will have been teaching for a total of forty years.他退休的前一天正好是他执教满40年的日子。想问一下老师，这里的“the day before his retirement”是名词作状语修饰后面的“he will have …”吗？我不太理解表示某...
Of course it may rain, in _______ case we'll have to hold the ceremony indoors.
A. that B. which
答案是 which，但为什么不能是 that 呢？查了词典，in that case 是一个固定搭配，意思是“如果那样的话”，好像从句意...
...sply clean 是什么意思？crisply在这里是什么意思？The sysbole of the times is blue jeans not just blue jeans in good condition but jeans that are frayed, discolored. They don't get that way naturally. No one wants blue jeans that are crisply clean or spanking new.
...子摘自《朗文》，用于句首的
thus 后面就没有逗号：Most of the
evidence was destroyed in the fire. Thus it would be almost impossible to prove
him guilty. 大多数证据已在大火中烧毁，因而要证明他有罪几乎是不可能的。我现在的疑问是：所谓的“传...
...一道完形填空的最后一段： Father Christmas spoke to every one of them. At last it wasmyturn,"Hello, little Tom," he said to me. As soon as I heard_______voice I found out that he was my uncle, John Smith. A. the B. his C. aD. /
老师说选B，我认为选A也对。请教老师，老师...
It will be lots of fun practicing out in the playground in the afternoon with the trees around us all red and yellow and everybody laughing and shouting.这是2007年高考英语全国2卷短文改错中的一个句子，其中的错误已根据参考答案改正过来，但我仍然不是很懂。...
...lie?""I wear these colored spectacles and prop myself, and the profs can't see I've got my eyes closed."Fat waggled his heavy face mournfully. "Boy, it sure is tough when a man don't get his sleep.""Yeah, it is," Charlie said, looking down at his book a...
...better and better, straight along--until by-and-by it grew intopositive PROOF. And then Richards put the matter at once out of hismind, for he had a private instinct that a proofonce established is better left so.请教老师：如何理解这里句末的is better left so ? 什么含义呢？
... one. “I tell you
what we can do,” said John. “You know that big box of corn Uncle John sent us?
Well, we can make popcorn (爆米花), and put it into
paper bags, and Bernard can take it around to the houses and sell it.”
...up one’s mind▲pass up ▲have second thoughts▲put off ▲reject …out of hand▲weigh up ▲participation▲complex ▲*diverge▲*undergrowth ▲*numerous▲commercial ▲*thoughtful▲symbolize ...