...其…不如…”;“是…而不是…”,常可与“rather than或not so
much…as”互换使用。He is more
like a spear than anything
else.= He is like a spear rather than anything else.= He is
not so much like anything else as
like a spear.“与其说他(指大象)像别的什么...
老师好!有这样一道选择题:If it _____ for the large orders we receive (received ?) from our
regular customers, we could not have quoted for supplies even at that
price. A. was B. is C. is not
D. were not 参考答案是A. was。请问,为什么不能选择 D. were not?
...师们!附上整段原文:All debilitating, to be sure. But probably not
fatal. The firm remains the world’s second-biggest aluminium-extruder with a
vast home market. Disclosure delays are common in Hong Kong and may be
unrelated to the DoJ case. And China’s government, itself in a tussle w...
...ginning to see is that that homicide increase that began last year, it has not disappeared.老师,请问一下:1. is 的主语是what 从句吗?2. 第一个that 是连词吗?第二个that 是什么词性呢?3. 第三个that 是引导定语从句吗?4. 整句话怎末翻译?5. work is ...
...我遇到一个句子理不顺。请看截图第二段话的句子That was when Jack's idea hatched.He would show
Frank what doing things together looked like.句子里表语从句的引导词使用连接副词when,但第二段话的逻辑我看得却不是很明白。是不是应该改用连接...
...at symbol of an almost blind faith in its possibilities.
Thirty years ago, when I was a schoolboy, the ancient conservatism of man was
still the normal inheritance of every child. We began to have electric lights,
and telephones, and to see horseless carriages, but our attitude was a mixture
of wond...
总觉得蓝色句子结构不符合语境需要的表意。觉得这里主句应该是非延续性动词,而原句竟然是couldn’t
do..., until后很时间点(非延续性动词),fell
asleep.是否改为:I couldn’t begin to
do any other things until my brother fell asleep.或者I c...
...短语。请问它们可以连接句子吗?我在一个资料上查到 not only…but also 可以连接句子(但not only后面的句子要用部分倒装):Not only did he promise to do it, but he did it.他不但答应做,而且做了。Not only doe she speak English but also French. ...
I do not believe that there was in that genteel Bohemia an intensive culture of chastity, but I do not remember so crude a promiscuity as seems to be practised in the present day. We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence. The spade was not invariably...
This system does not seem fair, at least as it appears on paper.是否可以理解为:This system does not seem fair, at least as it appears on paper (that this system does not seem fair).其中as=that this system does not seem fair.不过又觉得这么理解不妥,因为按照某种说法...
正常虚拟语气句子:If it had not been for the fact that she broke her leg, she might have passed the exam.变为倒装后的虚拟语气句子:Had it not been for the fact that she broke her leg, she might have passed the exam.去掉if,为什么只把had提前,而not不跟着一起提前...