It seems, nowadays, a matter of universal desire that poverty should be abolished. We should be quite willing to abolish luxury, but to abolish honest, industrious self-denying poverty would be to destroy the soil upon which mankind produces the virtues which enable our race to reach a still higher ...
【原句】Two weeks ago the central bank announced curbs on acquiring foreign exchange, making it harder for companies to get dollars legally at the 8.28 rate to stop leakage of foreign currency overseas.【疑问】不定式短语to stop leakage…修饰的对象是谁？
...n we were to be married (marry),”she said,"my grandma told me the secret of happy marriage was never to argue, and I should just keep quiet and make a mat when I got angry with you."
老师，这里的were to be married 怎么理解？ 虚拟语气吗？
还有这个should是属于什么用法...
She began to learn painting at an early age and has a broad knowledge of traditional Chinese painting, which, combined with he active personality and perfect spoken English....这里which 前后都有逗号，是代表什么呢？还是非限制性定语从句吗？那引导什么呢？
This 300-kilometre stretch of raging rapids is as much a barrier to life as are the mountains above. 绵延三百公里的急流如同那些巍峨群山，成为了保护野生生命的天然屏障。(这里as后面的are 可以放到最后吗？即as the mountains above are)…再比如He wished to...
... not enough to
counter-balance the damage done by sitting for the majority of our waking
hours. 2)Exercising alone can be boring. 老师，为什么第一句用名词exercise，而第二句却使用了动名词Exercising呢？二句从形式和结构上看，几乎一样呀。是否意味着上面2...
... was) at college, he was a prominent athlete.He retained the consciousness of it while (he was)
asleep. 请问专家老师：下面这类句子中的 he was 可以省略吗？即 while 后面可以直接跟名词吗？While he was a student, he had to borrow money.
As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold,deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.句子的 take hold 如何理解？make the jump without a net 是什么意思？是固定短语吗？
Li lost her mother at three. Four years later, her father became paralyzed after a tractor accident. At 12, her misfortune returned with the death of her grandma.这里面的 returned 什么用法？如果换成 go 或者 appear 有何不同？
1. We have to pay attention due to the possibility of a serious water shortage. 请问 the possibility 和 a serious water shortage 的冠词为何分别是the 与a？2. 我们可以说 compose poems, 但是可以说 compose work 和 compose paper 吗？compose是否只能接具体的实物，是吗...