He says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to
gather dust on a bookshelf at home.请问老师：for people not to be selfish做表语，请问by keeping a book to gather
dust on a bookshelf at home也是属于不定式的内容吗？介词短语作状语修饰selfish吗？
The bad weather notwithstanding, the event was a great success.一般情况下，介词放在名词之前。句中，notwithstanding为介词，却放在了名词短语the bad weather之后。这属于介词的特殊用法吗？什么情况下介词可以放在名词的后面？
...e higher than it is necessary to crack the shell如何理解？我不明白的地方是：这个it是形式主语吗？即it is necessary to crack the shell=to crack the shell is necessary.翻译：高度高于打破贝壳是有必要的。这明显不是一个通顺的短语。是省略某些内容...
... box and looked around for the others.想请教一下各位老师，句子1的Crawling and
climbing 是做什么状语成分？是作为方式状语吗？以修饰move来表示移动的方式，对吗？这方式状语可以独立成为一个子句吗？句子2 的Blinking,是相当于after blinking...
...to find that more and more people in Chengdu like to (3)_____in their
free time. A：You're right.In the past, the people loved (4)_____drinking tea or
playing mahjong.People from other countries or cities (5)_____ Chengdu as a
Slow City. B：We should thank the FISU World University Games Summer ...