There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for protection.请问此处的when可以用that替代吗? in return for protection 在这里理解为原因还是目的?
...is one of the most vulnerable nations. Its
people, however, want to change that. In 2019, Pakistan launched the Ten
Billion Tree Tsunami initiative, with a goal of planting 10 billion trees by
2028. (Trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes climate
change, and they can also combat e...
请问So it is clear what kind of books I wanted to write, in so far as I could be said to want to write books at that time.这个句子中could be said to是插入语吗? 这个被动用法怎么理解，这个与前面的in so far as引导的条件状语从句有关联吗？
...for offering us precisely this
service. The
conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way
that goods are paid for at a shop. Everyone has something to sell....
He may hunt, beg, or steal occasionally to keep himself alive; he may even, in
times of real need, do a lit...
I
have said already that but for the hazard of a journey to Tahiti I should
doubtless never have written this book. It is thither that after many
wanderings Charles Strickland came, and it is there that he painted the
pictures on which his fame most securely rests. I suppose no artist achieves
compl...
...e
construction “there is” or “there are”. “There be” indicates that something or
someone exists or is in a particular place or situation.There’s a woman waiting outside who wants
to talk to you. (The real subject is the woman – she is waiting outside.)上述语法说明，there虽然...
It is his wife that makes
the decisions in his family.It is his wife that made
the decisions in his family. It was his wife that makes
the decisions in his family. It was his wife that made
the decisions in his family. 请问这四个强调句的时态都对吗？为什么？有什么可靠的依据...
...nders of the natural world are mountains. Paricutin is a volcano in
Mexico that is nearly 3, 000 meters high. The reason that this volcano has been
voted a natural wonder is because people actually watched its birth and growth
in the 1940s! the volcano's last eruption was in 1952. Then, of course, t...
(informal ) to believe sth,
especially an idea that many other people believe in 信从（尤指随大溜）She
had never bought into the idea that to be attractive you have to be thin. 她从不随大溜认为要想有魅力，就得瘦身。以上来自牛津词典。很是奇怪不解：看这...
...ese multiple goals compete with one another , we need a mechanism in place that signals, 'Hey, stop doing that thing and do something else'." That mechanism, he suggests, could be fatigue.因为多个目标相互竞争占用我们的时间，而我们需要一个机制来发出信号，'嘿，停止...
... over decades. Nuclear seems likely to lag behind even in this slow field. That does not mean it will not, eventually, play a larger role, but that it will get there slowly. Inside a reactor, things can change in milliseconds. Outside, it takes lifetimes.网上译文1：在能源...
...个句子是不是强调句，强调的部分是时间状语吗？第一个that从句是什么成分？第二个that从句是ordinary
discourse的同位语从句吗？请翻译一下句子意思。It was about the beginning of November, 1880, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinar...
...ing the body so well, which
is why he looks around triumphantly, satisfied that all his hard work wasn’t in
vain.请问老师：1 which is why he looks around triumphantly 定语从句是修饰前面句子“the
author instead congratulates himself for concealing the body so well”吗？which定...