Fortunately, the production of tobacco in the world dropped from 14.364 billion pounds in 1994 to 14.2 billion pounds in 1995, as seen in the first picture, which suggests the downward tendency of tobacco consumption in the next years.值得庆幸的是，就第一幅图来看，世界烟草产量...
...吗？Ever since he found out that he has cancer, he’s been living a day-to-day (= without planning for the future) existence. 自发现自己得了癌症后，他就过一天算一天了。我的疑问是：为什么过去时后的宾语从句用了一般现在时呢？这不符合时态呼应的...
...rchment manual script became a palimpsest when a scribe used the parchment to make a prayer book. So the pages, the pieces of parchment themselves, had been preserved. But the Archimedes' text was erased and written over, and no one knew it existed. It wasn't until 1906 that a scholar came a...
...一句例句很困惑。If aspirins will cure it, I'll take a couple tonight.（如果阿莫西林有效的话，我就今晚就吃2片）我把他理解为表预测的will。但是zero conditonal又定义为"Zero conditional" refers to conditional sentences that express a factual impl...
We
may think what we will of it now, but the song and the story, heard around the
kitchen fire, have colored the thoughts and the lives of most of us, have given
the germs of whatever poetry blesses our hearts, whatever of memory blooms in
our yesterdays. Attribute whatever we may to
the school and ...
...的从句的时态，是这样吗？可是这句Much as I would have liked to, I couldn't lend him the money because I simply didn't have that much spare cash.和He talked as if he knew blabla岂不是相反了？尽管我很想借给他，但我没钱（过去时间）所以我没法借。他那时...
Miles also tried to teach Chantek more virtuous habits such as saving and sharing. Indeed, when I caught up with the orangutan at Zoo Atlanta,where he now lives,&nbs...
...dearest one that ever was. You understand now, don’t you, why I was able to laugh when you told me at the minister’s, not knowing my relationships, what trouble and worry papa’s and Uncle Abel’s scheme was giving you?”1) I feel just as hurt as– 这里怎么理解和翻译？...
...pen fortwo minutes at a time, otherwise it will go out of range so we have to ve very precise in our movements......根据句意，we can only open for two minutes at a time 是想要表达一次打开只能2分钟...那么，这里的open是打开，属于短暂动词，后面为什么可以接for ...
... heard of the illness of his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an indisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.译文：据说托马斯.卡莱尔有过这么一件事：他听说朋友亨利....
He soon found it easy to make more money by thieving than his father had done by a lifetime of honest work.语法书上说这是定语从句。1）done替代了made, 但是我记得http://ask.yygrammar.com/q-35984.html 语法探讨老师说了“...但定语从句不允许采用动词替代式...
...uch is known about how they happen that governments can prepare. According to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards. This is despite evidence...