... picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognizedthe voice of Helen Bates. It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs. I had no soo...
Scattered around the globe are more than 100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. 这个部分是做后置定语吧， known to geologists as hot spots那它是什么意思？如何理解？我这个地方没懂，导致整篇文章都理解有障碍
So was born “Cooking in a Bedsitter” (1961), a bible for the
cookery-challenged for decades afterwards, with its cheery insistence that yes,
you could cook cabbage, if you chucked in a crust of bread to stop the smell
getting into the curtains; and yes, you could knock up a delicious little
dinn...
...l▲□responsibility▲□absence▲get across ▲on the edge ofone’s
seat▲tick all the right boxes▲put on▲live up to▲to some extent▲in one’s own right▲be full of confidence▲Peking Opera▲transform...into▲tick all the right boxes▲base...on▲all too often▲result i...
关于 all kinds of 的用法我比较熟悉。如：They sell all kinds of things. 他们卖各种各样的东西。He gets into all kinds of trouble. 他惹上各种各样的麻烦。We get blamed for all kinds of things. 什么事儿都怪在我们头上。She enjoys all kinds of music, as I do. ...
...sed in 2015 and 2017, respectively. It was only logical, Snow White being oneof its most recognizable and brand-defining characters. The company began developing a live-action feature in 2016, in the heady first wave of its IP era. 专家老师好，请教老师最后一句，遵照语法规...
The shark let go ofthe fish and slid down, swallowing what he had taken as he died. The skiff was still shaking with the destruction the othershark was doing to the fish and the old man let go the sheet so that the skiff would swing broadside and bring the shark out from under.句中出现了let go...
...r the last few
years, students have become much less willing to argue with one another in
class. They don’t want to be viciously judged. It’s not even that they are
consciously afraid of being canceled. It’s simply that the norm of
non-argumentativeness in public has settled over many (but not...
But in addition, as a chapter on substitute foods shows, although these substitutes may have been developed to help us escape the tyranny of sugars and fats, they are not without their own risks.句中as a chapter on substitute foods shows起什么作用，是什么成分，可以详细说明一下...
...as为副词，第二个为连词省略了，are .We work as hard as any other team in England.第一个as 为副词，第二个为连词，其中省略了does。Please let me know your decesion as soon as possible 问题出在这个句子上，第二个as连词后面为什么是Possible,又是...
...式：
He was confident of succeeding [success].
=He was confident that one would succeed.
我们有信心能成功。
比较：名词confidence后通常接不定式，而不接 of doing sth。（参见confidence词条）
(2) quietly confident的理解：quietly confident的字面意思是“...
书上有这样一个句子：The most energetic and important festivals are theones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.look forward to 的意思是“盼望”，它应该以“人”作主语吧，但这个句子为什么用事物作主语呢？
...arch 8, and it has been
celebrated on that day ever since.The day was only
recognized by the United Nations in 1975. It has created a theme each year for
the celebration ever since.请教老师：上面2句it has been celebrated on that day ever
since. 和 It has created a theme each year for
the ce...