老师说在make up one’s mind这个短语中,如果one’s 是单数(如his, my, her),则mind也用单数;如果one’s 是复数(如our, their),则mind也用复数。如: In the end he made up his mind to go by train. 最后他决定坐火车去。 We made up our minds to sp...
He is oneofthe first Americans to complete the traditional Jesuit course of training.这个句子中的training是否应该是“受训”的含义?根据新牛津词典,train的前两个释义分别是“训练”释义之外,还有一个释义是:“收训练”,本句中的training是...
...中:A rapid means of long-distance transportation became a necessity for the United States as settlement spread over farther westward. 请问as是引导原因状语从句,表示“由于”,还是时间状语从句,表示“随着,当……”,为什么呢?有没有伴随状语...
The red cows on the father hill ate their way slowly toward the north. 在远处山上的那些红牛吃着草向北方走去。——援引钱歌川的《英文疑难详解》 请问:1. 该例句中的名词 way 作“草”解,词典上也没有此解呀!2. toward the north “向北方走...
"I
think oneofthe most important milestones we're going to see over the next
five to ten years is the movement of some of this work into the clinic.So
for example the target that I was speaking of earlier is a target that we can
make a drug for, which we are doing and then get to patients in the c...
Born
in the crisis ofthe old regime and Iberian colonialism, many ofthe leaders of
independence shared the ideasof representatives
government, careers open to talent, freedom of commerce and trade, the right to
private property, and a belief in the individuals
asthe basis of society. 这句话...
As comforting as it was to be Garrett's idol, it didn't diminish the horror of being Basketboy number nine.上面这个句子是让步状语从句吧?表语 comforting 要放在句首,comforting as it was to be Garrett's idol, 但为什么前面又要多加一个 as?
...。(3) There are no dusty cassette-tape fragments among the ancient bones, for example, to tell us how language was back in the early stages. (George Yule, The Study of Language, p. 1) 古代骨骼堆中,又没有带尘土的录音带碎片来告诉我们,在那些远古时代,...
1:birds of a feather flock together ; those who resemble assemble。物以类聚,人以群分。:2:They lay stress on patriotism as embodied in the saying"Everybody is responseble for the rise or fall ofthe country."第一个句子resemble是及物动词,是否少了宾语?第...
Overdressed
is the fashion world’s answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael
Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. 此句话如何理解翻译?以下是上下文:第二段This
top-down conception ofthe fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at
odds with the feverish wor...
I have a lurking suspicion that _Leonidas W_. Smiley is a myth; and that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous _Jim Smiley_, and he would go to work and bore me to death with some exasperati...
Zespri is risking millions of dollars on the launch of an entirely new product, the bald, gold kiwifruit. The effort, Zespri says, has been a great success. But with Zespri Gold making up only 10 percent of total New Zealand kiwifruit production, the company must be careful to continue to promote th...
...ered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editor-Ship of after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of “juggling your life,” and making the alternative move into “downshifting” brings with it far greater rewards than financial success an...