...pt to order
her to keep her now that she was old
just as she had been kept when she was young, this wretched creature was called
Louise and, in obedience to her mother, she sold herself without inclination or
passion or pleasure, rather as she might
have followed an honest trade had it ever entered ...
State media hailed bike-sharing as one of China’s “new four great inventions,” putting it and high-speed rail, e-commerce and smartphone payments on the same plane as paper, movable type, the compass and gunpowder.
Many oftheanimals were in prime condition and had more body fat than is customary for animals arriving from the wild.请问is customary for在此处是什么用法?感觉可以直接去掉?
...“一段时间”的宾语,比如:spend some time on sthspend a lot of time in doing sthspend three days doing sthspend ten years in doing sth等等。请问:spend 后面可以接专有名词的时间宾语吗?比如:spend Mondy on sthspend September doing sth
...的选段。在接近结尾的地方,有一个"Thus,"②At each stage in the development ofthe final
product, value is added, thus creating more wealth.③There has been no rain for thirty days in thearea.
Thus the crops are likely to suffer.我看到语法书对thus的定义是:thus后面是...
...做到一道有关虚拟语气的题目,答案是B,有些疑惑:Had the government offered the help, we couldn’t have couldn’t have
suffered a loss.A. ought not to have suffered B. couldn’t have suffered C. shouldn’t
suffer D. couldn’t suffer字典上ought to有这样一个解释:u...
The manager was unaware ofthe points engaged, so his understanding about the matter was quite arbitrary.请问这句话中engaged的是什么含义,是形容词还是动词用法?我在字典上查到的用法似乎都讲不通,请高手帮忙解释。