The house was in a roaring humour now, and ready to get all the fun out of the occasion that might be in it. Several Nineteeners, looking pale and distressed, got up and began to work their way towards the aisles, but a score of shouts went up:"The doors, the doors--close the doors; no Incorrup...
MR.
COLLINS was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love;
for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of
the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass
her towards the staircase, than she entered the breakfast ro...
... and more lined; I think her character had altered. She had made a success of her business, and now had an office in Chancery Lane; she did little typing herself, but spent her time correcting the work of the four girls she employed. She had had the idea of giving it a certain daintiness, and she ma...
...erica's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series ofindustrial experiments at a large telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lighting affects workers' productivity. Instead, the studies ended up giving their...
...ions or order in a restaurant. But every time I tried to string
a sentence of Italian together, the locals smiled at me and praised my language
skills. That encouragement helped me to get through the language barrier. After
I made Italy my permanent home, I discovered how warm-hearted Italians are.
...
The present subjunctive form of the verb to be is invariably be for all persons, and the past subjunctive form of the verb to be is invariably were. In all other verbs the subjunctive form varies from the indicative only in that， in the present tense， the third person singular ending is lost.
...词构成的介词短语，表示伴随状语？3. For the last 10 years of my 18 years, I have pursued a tumultuous love affair with fear.从句子结构上来看：I（主语）+have pursued(含有语态的谓语)+a tumultuous love(不定贯彻a+adj(tumultuous)+n构成的宾语)。with fear.也是...
They have fewer opportunities to learn the value of money, and have less experience in learning to deal with a delay in gratification, if every requested object is given on demand. 这句当中 in gratification 是“满足地”的意思吗，做副词用？还是 in 是“在....方面...
...orized that time varies depending on where you measure it. Today’s state-of-the-art atomic (原子的) clocks have proven Einstein right. Even advanced physics can’t decisively tell us what time is, because the answer depends on the question you’re asking.翻译：公元五世纪早期的哲...
In some cases, it is not so much the treatment of the animals on set in the studio that has activists worried;it is the off-set training and living conditions that are raising concerns.强调的内容应该是“not the treatment of the animals on set in the studio”，so much 属于worried的修...
...语和过去分词成为非谓语吗？This community garden, in the shape of a segment of arch and hidden
among party walls, is the extant trace of the Eastern Curve, a railway line
built by North London Railway in 1865 to connect Camden and Poplar.
MALE PROFESSOR: And the spot where the gravity readings are especially high- this is right in the middle of a 500-kilometer-wide circular ridge- what could be part of an old impact crater.MALE PROFESSOR: And if there was an asteroid impact there in Wilkes Land, the next question is- Did it...