问题 The painting is interesting. The people in it look real. They seem to be alive 。

请问老师，最后一个词alive，可以换成 living吗。两个词都表示活着的，都可以做表语。

问题 文中的 be couched in terms of如何理解

...ys couched in terms of taste, but it tasted, smelled unmistakably like snobbery.参考译文：而在文学评论界，文学教授、小说编辑、小说家在讨论阅读时，有时会带有一种令人望而生畏的排外性。他们会评论说哪些是好书，哪些是坏书，哪些值得...

问题 分词作状语的问题

Before being used,the machine must be checked. 这里的before是介词还是连词？可以省略being吗？

问题 it never be sth/sb to blame 中it的理解

...ss cut jobs, and when the economy takes off, people get jobs. It has never been universityy educaiton to blame.请教老师，it只是代词，没有实际含义？It has never been university educaiton to blame. 此句等于When the economy is going down, business cut jobs, and when the economy tak...

问题 otherwise理解

...nbsp;So now, the question is, do we partially restore and rebuild the site before-the entire thing disintegrates?FEMALE PROFESSOR: It will take a lot of funding to restore it, and, uh, I'm not sure it will be made available. Which would be a pity.FEMALE PROFESSOR: Even a partly altered...

问题 现在分词能否替代形式主语/宾语it

People stop to share their personal stories of how much it meant to be helped when they were going through a rough time. 翻译：人们停下来讲述他们的故事，讲述他们遇到困难时受到帮助对他们多么重要。请问专家老师：1. 我觉得“how much it meant to be hel...

问题 非谓语动词分析

...truggled hard with the balloon for some time. Soon afterwards, the balloon began to descend and it landed near an airport. The three men tried to explain who they were, but they were not believed. Being suspected to be spies, they were finally taken to the police station.本段颜色标记的这句...

问题 情态动词改错

情态动词改错。请问这句can't be 为什么不对？ 为什么要改成wouldn't be.It can't be possible for you to phone back later.

问题 It was a long time until...还是It was a long time be

A man escaped from the prison last night. It was a long time ____ the guards discovered what had happened. A. before   B. until   C. since   D. likely 答案为before，请问可否选择until？

问题 关于 place 和 recorder 的用法问题

...贯通四级词汇(星火英语)》时发现一处不理解的地方，Maybe an automatic recorder would be placed when food is removed from a refrigerator。这里的recorder似乎改为order合适，而place an order 正为下订单之意。原文如下：Food might not be purchased from...

问题 关于独立主格疑问

The meeting being over，all of us went home.为什么这里要加being，我觉得没必要，就像The game over这里也没加being。

问题 让步状语中的状语分析

...y, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be even admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right—it can hardly be classed as Literature. 请问这句话中的even admitting that  the theory on which it is based may be right作什么成分？...

问题 lead sb to do / doing 的用法

Her belief that you wanted to be fired led you to wanting to be fired.Her belief that you wanted to be fired led you to want to be fired.原句是介词短语，我能不能用 to do 形式的非谓语, 我弄不明，感谢老师的答疑解惑！

话题 it came to me how much easier it would be if we had a range of words

问题 指人的名词后面用that或which来修饰的疑问

...被认为是错误的：*She’s not the brilliant dancer who she used to be. * My brother is a peasant, who I am not. *The TV set is not the one which used to be. 先行词不指人本身，而是指人所具有的品质、性格、地位等时，关系代词应用that或which,不用who( m)。第...