Families in the bottom 10% spend a much higher proportion of their income on food and household costs such as utility bills than the richest 10%, and owing to lower levels of spending do not benefit nearly so much from smaller increases in recreation, clothing, restaurants and other leisure activiti...
His unfailing politeness, seen in such gestures as when he would say goodbye to every volunteer on his way out of a tournament or, just this Monday, when he arrived at Spain's team news conference and made a beeline for the stenographer to shake the hand of the person who would be typing up the tran...
请视原句：But few will be as sensible and considerate when making the long
journey of life <on board> a
big 'social' or 'global' train.请问该句中的词组 on board 后为何可直接跟名词？
...s a closer look at some ideas that will help you cultivate (培养) a sustainable
digital minimalism lifestyle. In these chapters, I examine issues such as the
importance of solitude (独处) and the necessity of cultivating high-quality
leisure to replace the time most now spend on mindless device ...
1. I only use mild detergent for my
light-colored clothes 2. I prefer to use strong detergent on
my dark clothes 我在牛津字典里没有查到use
sth on sth 的用法第一个我查到了。那在意思不变的情况下for和on
是否可以互换？
He says smaller fast-food chains in America have been hit particularly hard in this downturn because they are competing with the global giant McDonald's,which increased spending on advertising by more than 7% last year as others cut back这里的by有什么含义？这是固定用法吗？就是...
Attracting these would-be quitters is a reasonable strategy in the
Netherlands, where politics is so fragmented that anything over 10% is a
good result. But it is a weak foundation to rely on for those hoping to
win more than half the vote, such as Ms Le Pen.《经济学人》上面的一个句...