The word 'dictate' means to say something out loud to be recorded, and the word 'dictionary' refers to a resource that lists the words of a language and how to say them, and they both come from the Latin word 'dicere'.求指教！句子中有2个and来连接独立句，这种用法有没有问题？...
From a plant's evolutionary viewpoint, however, it was also a land ofopportunity, free of competitors and predators and full of carbon dioxide andsunlightfree在这里是什么成分啊 看不懂？
Over his shoulder was thrown a rough brown coat, all torn and full of holes.1. 这句话前半部分是倒装句，a rough brown coat was thrown over his shoulder。是这个结构吗？be thrown over .... 这个用法的意思是一件衣服被挂在、搭在他的肩上，可以这用...
...sthenes' principal contribution to the creation of democracy at Athens was to complete the long process of weakening family and clan structures, especially among the aristocrats, and to set in their place locality-based corporations called demes, which became the point of entry for all civic and...
... telling my own story. （C.
Dickens: Oliver Twist）[汉译略]6. Meadows was wandering about the premises until
such time as Robinson should return.（C.
Reade: It Is Never Too Late to Mend）[汉译略]7. Which of these approaches (or any other) is likely
to produce good results is not demonstrab...
...ait for you until your father comes.他将等你到你父亲来。Einstein was not able to return to his homeland till
the war was over.直到战争结束后爱因斯坦才得以回国。Until you told me, I had heard nothing of what
happened.直到你告诉我以前,出了什么事我一点也不...
Strickland was impossible, and he swore never to speak to him again. But the season touched him with gentle feeling, and he hated the thought of Strickland spending Christmas Day by himself; he ascribed his own emotions to him, and could not bear that on an occasion given up to good-fellowship the l...
A fresh disease could be about to take off right now, as a freak bacterium escapes from an
antibiotic-abusing factory farm, say, or a mutated virus sweeps outof a
laboratory or a forest, as a bat
passes it on to a new host which can infect humans. 请问这两个as都是什么用法？这种一...
He
assured her with much earnest gravity that it was not of the least importance.他郑重地向她保证这一点也不重要。这句话是不是应该把not去掉才正确呢？ least已经是最不重要（含否定的含义），再加上前面的not, 应该是双重否定了。所以，英文...
There was hardly any sign of life—not even a blade of grass—during these long interludes, imbued with the grayish sunlight of windy days.这里的 imbued 是动词还是形容词？
...ylic fibres compared to the PP fibres as the elastic modulus of the former was reported to be in therange of 14.6–19.6 GPa as compared to the range of 3.5–4.9 Gpa for the latter第一个as是连词词性，翻译为因为我懂，但是第二个as是起介词作用还是连词作用呢，怎么...
A great grandmother of mine,who was a friend of Gibbon,lived to the age of ninety-two,and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants.老师请问这个句子中remain是a grandmother of mine 的谓语吗? 还有to her last day是不是状语?但是有to her last day这种用法吗为...