And of all imaginable crises, the coronavirus has shown a unique power to accentuate political differences. Though more devastating than any foreign attack, it is hard to figure asthe sort of common enemy Osama bin Laden was.问：这里的figure是什么意思，另外有figure后的 as 怎么理...
"I don't know. I
want him to come back. If he'll do that we'll let bygones be bygones. After
all, we've been married for seventeen years. I'm a broadminded woman. I
wouldn't have minded what he did as long as I knew nothing about it. He must
know that his infatuation won't last. If he'll come back n...
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...
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
...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...
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. ...
... 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...
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...
...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“...