I want to stay with my poor mother, but the doctors warn me that she may linger on as she is, or be a permanent invalid. 这句话粗体部分的意思我大概是明白的，但是as she is这个是什么成分？具体怎么翻译？它省略了什么啊？还有这个or be的前面省略的是s...
I'm sure you know that this group was set up to help disabled people like me.这个句子中的you know是宾语从句吗？you know后面用that引导了又一个宾语从句，从句套从句，这种I'm sure that句式后面接从句套从句的情况多吗？
The most damaging charge against the two men is that they risked their
country’s fortunes (“success is the child of Audacity” says one of
Disraeli’s characters) to feed their egos. 引述分句倒装，是因为直接引语短的缘故，所以谓语前不加逗号吗？
celebration1. [C] a special event that people organize in order to celebrate sthbirthday / wedding celebrations
英语中有很多名词，难以理解它为什么是可数的。比如上面是词典上查到的关于celebration的解释，不就是一场庆祝活动吗，为什么要用复数形式...
Though lacking money, his parents managed to...在这个句子里though是什么词性呢？为什么可以直接加lacking而不需要写Though they
lacked money呢？though引导的状语从句可以省略与主句一致的主语以及be动词，但补充的完整句子里没有be动词啊？
1.Kelly Swisher, an Arkansas woman, escaped injury and managed to safely stop her car after a 4-foot-long rat snake came out from under her car seat and slid across her feet as she was driving down the highway.怎么翻译?2.Officials described the baby elephant as "healthy,standing and nursing".怎...
ITA, the successor to Alitalia, Italy’s perennially disappointing flag carrier, could be snapped up by Germany’s Lufthansa; IAG group, parent of British Airways and Iberia, may bring Portugal’s TAP into its fold. Better that than permanent flightlessness. 请问一下亲爱的老师，最后...
Toward that end,
O’Malley requires all current employees and new hires to further develop their skill sets and attain the status of
Certified Professional in Supply Management这里的skill sets中的sets字面意思是“组，套”，还有“集合”的意思，如和理解skill sets的意思...
But to run the country and get legislation through parliament, he needs
a prime minister and a government, and that looks tricky.问题：请问but 在这里是表示除…以外的意思吗？置于句首是否常见？
Full pension is 50 francs a day. 全部退休金为每天50 法郎。You can get 10 francs to the pound. 1英镑你可换10法郎。He changed his dollars into francs. 他把美元换成了法郎。请问这些句子中的 francs 仅指法国的货币吗？