Knowledge, in any art or science, being always the fruit of observation, study, or practice, gives, in proportion to its extent and usefulness, the possessor a just claim to respect. 在任何艺术和科学中，由于知识总是观察研究或是实践的成果，知识所有者应受到尊...
...to doing sth?含义都是： 差点（险些）做某事。We came near to being killed. 我们差点丢了性命。He came near to killing her. 他几乎杀了她。但是，我在马克吐温的小说中，看到：Goodson, years and years ago, came near marrying a very sweet and prettygirl, named...
...ho said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s aweful .”Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all 52 flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that ...
...saw an advertisement for a suitable house in Hampshirewhich was claimed to bewithin a stone's throw of a railway stationfrom which there were frequent trains to London.为什么within a stone's throw of a railway station中使用了of?词典上within a stone's throw of 50 meters, 这可...
It tires not, nor does it boast of its power; but belongs to the air,travelling it may be six thousand miles to and from its northern nesting home, feeding its flown young as it flies, and slipping through a medium that seems to help its passage even when the wind is adverse.参考译文：燕子充...
But as we use the word, "friend" can be applied to a wide range of relationships ——to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a close business associate, to a childhood playmate, to a man or woman, to a trusted confidant. to someone one has known for a few weeks i...
...列关系，貌似此诗句省略了不少成分。"Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataracts removed in a 30-minute surgical procedure."这一句来自一篇考研真题，句中有明显的并列关系，却没有用并列连词，为什么？请老师们解...
...festyle as busy lifestyle in which even minutes of time is too valuable to be wasted.1）如何翻译这句话？2）上句中 not so much a leisurely lifestyle as busy lifestyle 很难理解，看不懂什么意思？ 看到not so much...as...是什么用法，什么意思呢？...
...以接-ed分词呢？例如：Mike has gone fishing.His words always go unbelieved by all sorts of people.1）是不是英语里只有这样少数的动词例如come,go,stand等比较特殊？ 其他的动词是不是不可以这样既接-ing，又接-ed分词呢？2）当接-ed分词时，是否可...
...nked second in his age group. 他去年在他的年龄段排名第二。sb be ranked first/second... sb rank first/second...应该都是正确的。也就意味着，作定语时，rank应该可以以过去分词形式，也可以以现在分词形式。但是我从语感上总觉得highest ranked
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