...geist our lighted windows. We live in
dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite
harmless ones like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding
without dispelling our fears. Knowing that
the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to p...
...omething是指实际存在的物体还是抽象的概念?比如it tasted like
grape juice but not as sweet.中我们认为something是指it和grape juice,还是认为something是一个抽象的概念sweetness甜度?前者是指as用于比较it和grape juice的degree, 后者是指as 用于比较s...
...s biographer, described the garret where Johnson worked as ' fitted up like a counting house' with a long desk running down the middle at which the copying clerks would work standing up.
... is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I
forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in
anything but figures. . . It is for that purpose, again, that I
have bought a box of paints and some pencils. It is hard to take up drawing
again at my age, when I have never...
...en animals that lived millions of years apart-w-well, it just seems...more like guessing.FEMALE PROFESSOR: There's always some guesswork when studying extinct animals.PROFESSOR: But that's exactly what leads to discoveries: A hypothesis-a type of "guess"-is made...we &quo...
...t's finished. I'm as indifferent to him as if he were a stranger. I should like him to die miserable, poor, and starving, without a friend. I hope he'll rot with some loathsome disease. I've done with him."I thought it as well then to say what Strickland had suggested."If you want to divorce him, he...
...一个例子来看看,请各位专家老师鉴别和指点:I don’t like the things he bought yesterday. (正)= I don’t like what he bought yesterday. (正)I don’t like the people I met yesterday. (正)= I don’t like what I met yesterday. (?)——此句成立吗?为方便大家查阅...
...hey often hide from predators by squirting out a cloud of ink or something like that?FEMALE PROFESSOR: Yes, the octopus can release a cloud of ink if it feels threatened, ah but it doesn’t hide behind it, as is generally believed.FEMALE PROFESSOR: Um the ink cloud is... it serves to dist...
... the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain, the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapons, and genetic engineering?(选自 Public Attitudes Toward Science by Stephen Hawking ) 参考译文:怎么样才能利用这种兴趣,向公众提供所需要的...
This is what the event usually looks like with as many as 2500 people assembled in one room.That's under normal ciscumstances.上句用了with sb assembled 是否意味着sb是被动完成的,即被召集去的。假设上句用了 with as many as 2500 people assembling in one room 意思是...
...含的比较意味,则可能错选答案。如:1. Next to biology, I like physics
_______. (全国卷)A. better B. best C. the better D. very well【解析】答案为B。由于中学生所学习的学科有八九科,即使“除开生物之外”,也还有七八科之...