...usually associated with courts of law. We might say that
justice has been done when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond
doubt. Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law. Those who seek it
undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure that they will find it.
Judges, howev...
填空题：
On the one hand, I always get up too late and have too little time to have breakfast. On the other hand, I hate going to work ________ an empty stomach.
所给答案是on，但是可以填with吗？
...不？所以，如下翻译不对：This street is 300% longer than that one. 这条街比那条街长三倍 / 百分之三百。（应该是大两倍，是三倍）这个说法也不对：若在 more / greater than 结构中用百分比，则表示净增数(见上例中最后一句)。原题见：h...
But this one in Little Rock done me,' says he. 'She saw me taking a trolley ride with another girl, and when I came 'round on the night she was to leave the door open for me it was fast. And I had keys made for the doors upstairs. But, no sir. She had sure cut off my locks. She was ...
... the “true
meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one's ability, what
various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer
of a dictionary is a historian, not a lawgiver. If, for example, we had been
writing a dictionary in 1890, or even as late a...
...mud."There were cows that were up to their head in the water," one farmer close to Port Macquarie told the Guardian newspaper.以上句子摘自一段新闻。黑体部分的定语从句，that were up to their head，从逻辑上可以理解出是水位已经到达了牛的头...
...答大词典》增订版第五版p.945) 2. Never mind is used to tell someone
not worry about something. (Never mind 用来告诉某人不要担心某事。）用来安慰某人，通常可以翻译为“别在意”、“别担心”、“没关系”、“不要紧”等。如：Never mind your m...
He has been away for one minute.他已经离开一分钟了。
He has had this book for two months.他买这本书已有两个月了。在这两个例子中，应是把left和lent换成了一种状态。
但是对于其他的表达，如我已经修好这个车子三小时了，可不可以用 hav...
What a day! This morning, I
was worried that no one would talk to me. But I was wrong. I didn’t feel
awkward or frightened at all. I miss my friends from junior high school, but I
believe I will make new friends here, and there’s a lot to explore at senior
high. I feel much more confident than I...
...e have about forty post offices in the city,” says the old man. “Which
one do you want to go?”此句中go后面为什么不加to?3. In an hour, we can travel to places ( ) would have taken our ancestors days to
reach这句先行词Place 在定从中做什么成分？是不是To reach ...
...反身代词），美国英语与英国英语在用法上不同。例如：One cannot succeed unless he / one tried hard.One should wash himself / oneself.Hello, is this / that Fred? [打电话]5. 连词(1) 在非正式场合，美国英语常用连词like代替as，as if或as though。例如：I ca...
..., there have to be schools, it seems to work
fairly efficiently. Of course one of our great problems in England is that we
have very large classes and. . . um, it would be very nice if we could reduce
that by at least half instead of there being forty children in a class, there
are only twenty. . . ...
...点。"YOU NEED TO GET HERE NOW!"The nurse whispers anxiously over the phone. It's after midnight.One of our hospice patients has just died at home, and her husband is
threatening to shoot himself if the funeral home shows up."Has the funeral home been called?" I ask."No," she says.It was her sugges...
... the future. 他声称有能力洞察未来。注意习语do everything in one’s power 竭尽全力：I’ve
done everything in my power to help him. 我已竭尽全力帮助他了。※真题例句※They
have got the power to change the world. 他们拥有改变世界的能力。(2016四川卷...
... Pedestrians, drivers, and road conditions are all to be blamed. 2. One of these officers is Ed Williams. He and ten other officers are on special duty.请问为何是 ten other 而不是我们通常说的 other ten ?