If we give up the idea that higher levels are literally constructed outof lower level elements, as I think we must, then it becomes much more natural to consider even such abstract systems of representation as transformational structure (where each utterance is represented by the seq...
There was something on Judson Tate's mind, and, such as it was, he tried to convey it to me. Already he had accepted me as his friend; and when I looked at his great, snuff-brown first-mate's hand, with which he brought emphasis to his periods, within six inches of my nose, I wonde...
... think my biggest achievement with this job is that I successfully carried out several projects with my team members.如果介词with这里表示是“关于”的意思，那么与in，at，on表示关于什么方面时又怎样的区别？
A backlog in the courts means that lawyers are more likely to settle cases outof court, which means less jail time, and judges are more likely to send
many cases that have been waived to criminal court back to juvenile court.
问：
我查了字典，waive是及物动词，这里waive 是...
A great many people taking tea in a Chinese pagoda, and he behaving like a manica about the wasps-waving them away, flapping at them with his straw hat, serious and infuriated outof all proportion to the occasion.
With him was the son of captain of police, a boy of sixteen years of age，who had recently entere the army.这句的主语是a boy of sixteen years of age 吗？可以这么写吗？其中有什么语法知识，可以详细讲解一下吗？
...with sb: to be involved with someone who has a bad influence on youWhen he left college he got mixed up with the wrong people.3. [not before noun] confused, for example because you have too many different details to remember or think aboutI get all mixed up over the money whenever I travel abroad....
...hers looked at how an elephant would pick up a small crispy pancake,
which was only 0.5mm thick. The force required to break the pancake was less
than 1% of the trunk’s weight (about 100kg). The elephant was found to either
use suction at a fixed distance from the pancake to “raise” the object...
I’m reassured by the many peoplewho, outof concern for those who are old, frail or immunocompromised, have chosen to protect people like me, often at a huge cost to themselves.请问大家这里 often 引导的这部分作定语修饰前边的 many people 么？ 可是 为什么会有...
Beard helped out to create the goal of his life, allowing him to weave past five England players, trick the goalie with a dummy—tic—and put the ball in, tac.请问这里的trick和put为什么用动词原形?是不定式的省略吗？可这是三个不定式并列啊?
...lated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the
contrary, he was all attention to every body. By nature inoffensive, friendly
and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous.Lady
Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour
to Mrs....