... instead of sending sparks at the grindylows, pelted them with what seemed to be a jet of boiling water, for where it struck them, angry red patches appeared on their green skin.
Tom has gone out. Tom _______.
A. was out
B. has been out
C. is off
D. will be out
▲在《朗曼英汉双解词典》的out条下有这样的例句：
I'm afraid Mr Jones is out / has gone out; he'll be back soon. 我恐怕钟斯先生出去了，他很快就会回来。
...
... a suburban Virginia living room—a women's group that had invited me to join them. Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch.译文：有一个女性团体在佛吉尼亚郊区...
...ed months after Lehman Brothers collapsed, when the world economy appeared to be imploding.我不明白之处在于：“but natural gas is the cheapest ”和“it has been in a decade”之间是怎么连接的，这应该是个复合句了，但是引导词没有啊，引导词是省略了么？~...
...dence that the day before his retirement, he will have been teaching for a total of forty years.他退休的前一天正好是他执教满40年的日子。想问一下老师，这里的“the day before his retirement”是名词作状语修饰后面的“he will have …”吗？我不太理解表...
...，语法书有这样的说明：1. My task being completely，l shall go to bed.(张克礼《新英语语法》）2. The question being settled，we went home.(薄冰《薄冰高级英语语法》)3. The question (having been) settled, the meeting adjourned.(章振邦《新编英语语法》）考...
Of course it may rain, in _______ case we'll have to hold the ceremony indoors.
A. that B. which
答案是 which，但为什么不能是 that 呢？查了词典，in that case 是一个固定搭配，意思是“如果那样的话”，好像从句意...
...nating! But...so this biologist is basically claiming that people who like to eat these vegetables actually have some sort of sensory deficit? Sort of makes us picky eaters than normal ones, doesn't it? I mean, that's kind of turning things on their head, isn't it?请问老师：问题...
...与六便士It showed an eagerness for adventure, a rediness for the hand-to-mouth, which the care she took of her home and her love of good housewifery made not a little remarkable.这说明了她喜欢追求冒险，肯于忍饥耐劳；后一种性格从她过去辛勤操理家务、热心家庭...
...line. 3)Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new
buildings go up. 4)Tomorrow
he will be watching her anxiously as
she swims the long distance to England.5)Most
of Debbie's school friends will be
waiting for her on the English coast. 老师您好！以上每一句都使用了will be doing结...
Forbes also thought he saw, as he later told the British Association,
that " the number of species and individuals diminishes as we descend,
pointing to a zero in the distribution of animal life as yet unvisited."请教一下曹老师，这个句子中为什么diminishes使用单数形式而非复...
...the
evidence was destroyed in the fire. Thus it would be almost impossible to prove
him guilty. 大多数证据已在大火中烧毁，因而要证明他有罪几乎是不可能的。我现在的疑问是：所谓的“传统用法”句首的thus后面要跟逗号，这有依据吗？也就是说...
(1) The price of gold fell to its lowest level in five years in trading early Monday? For a time, gold was selling at less than 1,100 dollars an ounce on Asian markets.改写成疑问句：How much money was an ounce of gold on Asian markets early Monday?How much money was an ounce of gold selling o...
... closed."Fat waggled his heavy face mournfully. "Boy, it sure is tough when a man don't get his sleep.""Yeah, it is," Charlie said, looking down at his book again. "I'll get a break pretty soon, though. I'd rather chop off a hand than to flunk out of univers...
...ime, she
chose one of the most expensive dresses in the shop and handed it to an
assistant who wrapped it up for her as quickly as possible. Then the woman simply took the parcel and walked out
of the shop without paying. When she was arrested, the detective found out that
the shop assistant was her...