...tml How would you rank “important” languages? If asked to rattle them off, many people start with English, but after that are reluctant to go further. Important how, they ask. One approach would be to look at people and money ； surely a language is important if it is spoken by lots of pe...
...？One morning Ann’s neighbor Tracy
found a lost dog wandering around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if
she could keep an eye on the dog. Ann said that she could ____21____ it only
forthe day. Tracy took photos of the dog and ____22____ 400 FOUND fliers, and put
them in mailboxes. M...
...在看照片：Anna: Who’s that?Kevin: That was me when I was two years old.Anna: That’s a cute picture.（《牛津少儿英语》5）第二句话的意思很简单：这是我两岁的时候。 现在的问题是，语法上怎样分析when I was two years old从句呢？首先，这不应该...
...31.html 本人在看了以后表示很迷惑：按照老师您说的 old在表示年龄的时候是形容词，年龄做状语修饰。 如 I am 15 years old.但是老师您的回答中，我将几个例句摘出：a student of fifteen a student of fifteen years old 以上两...
...。He was like an old tree blossoming again. 他就像古树又开了花。The story is about several boys hunting for treasure in the mountain.这故事讲的是几个男孩去寻宝。The day was bright,with a fresh breeze
blowing.I can't move abo...
Certainly they were connected to their land, the way one is complicatedly connected to, or encumbered by, family one can't do anything about.
当然，冰岛人曾与他们的这片土地息息相连，拥有的是如同一个人和自己家庭之间的那种复杂关系——无法选择，有...
Gutman argues convincingly that the stability of the Black family encouraged the transmission of—and so was crucial in sustaining—the Black heritage of folklore, music, and religious expression from one generation to another, a heritage that slaves were continually fashioning out of their Africa...
...以互换使用。例如：
（1）We’ll
need more than an hour to get there for certain. [=for sure ] 我们肯定要花一个多小时才能到那儿。（摘自《韦氏高阶英汉双解词典》
（2）No
one knows for sure [= for certain] what happened. 没有人知道到底发生了什么...
...on/22691摘录如下：下面一题出自2004年的上海春季高考题：The village is far away from
here indeed. It’s ______ walk.A. a four hour B. a four hour’s C. a four-hours D. a four hours’答案是D。 我的疑问是，我觉得D项的a是多余的，比如，《...
今天看到一句话：When I saw my 10-year-old avoiding the dirty plate in the sink or my 8-year-old feeling uncomfortable about the wet sand in her hands, I’m reminded of a time when I was unwilling to get my hands a little dirty在这里后面是指一种因果关系，而不是对过去的...
...round shape in a round hole from around
one year of age, but it will be another year before they are able to do the
same with less symmetrical (对称的) shapes. This ability to recognize that a shape will need
to be turned in a specific direction before it will fit is called an
“allocentric fram...
...s my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death?此句来源于以下这段话：The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted, I took him...
Although he is very old,he is quite strong.改写为 Although he is quite strong，he is very old。If it rains,we will stop playing.改写为 it will rain,If we stop playin（假设自己是雨神）。He laughed a lot when he was with me . 改写为：when he laughed a lot，he was with me. Whe...