新编英语第三版课文里的一句:The part of my brain that switches off when I do anything strenuous signaled shutdown and my feet moved metronomically.这里的signaled shutdown是什么意思,充当什么成分?
Ritual is defined by sociologists as "that part of family life that the family likes abiout itself, is proud of, and wants formally to continue."请问第一个"that"和"formally"是什么意思?
I wish to die while still at work,knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.这里content可以和knowing并列嘛?content是形容词。后面那个that what...又是什么结构?还请老师们指教!
It was first believed that he got lost in a storm and had died in the cold weather.
看过老师们的相关解答,and前后两个动词时态可以不一致,只要复合逻辑。
这里got lost 和had died是不是时态错了?应该是先迷失lost,然后死掉die,那不是应该had lost...
He looked round him with a furtive and stealthy air, as one who dreads pursuit. Then he vanished over the hill.怎么理解和分析as one who dreads pursuit?as在这里用法词性? 这句话和前句的关系如何分析?
1. The
two departments work independently of each other. 2. A
scientist who works independently of any institution. 这里的work
independently of 成分如何分析?是把independently of… 这个部位作为一个整体作为方式状语来修饰work吗?