However luminous an insight might seem initially, brilliance is not a reliable predictor of validity, and sure enough the history of physical chemistry is replete with theories that were as ingenious as any but that eventually collapsed.句子的结构看不太懂：Question 1:And sure enough，and...
...that he was too old to be president.Let's take a listen to this.I will not make age an issue of this campaign. 1）句中的动词score是什么含义，如何理解？2）作为一个老人...=as an old guy, 为什么上句有being 呢？as being an old guy, 和 as an old guy 含义有什...
... What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited from ambition -- if not always their own then that of their parents and grandparents.
请问破折号if引导的是状语从句吗？为什么没有主语和谓语呀？省略了那些成分？为什么可以省略？then怎么翻译？求解...
VOA《Defense Argues Trump Not Directly Responsible for Capitol Violence》The defense for former President Donald Trump is taking their turn in the US Senate Friday.Trump's lawyers are focusing on his words at the January 6 rally ahead of the riot at the US Capitol, saying they are protected free s...
...1）I’ll phone
you if I have time. （02）If you see
him, give him this note. 上述两例中，if分句不能用will
have和will see。于是，英语初学者通常不敢在if分句中用will，发现if分句中有will就认为是错误。但事实上，作为情态助动词，will在不少情...
...l as foreigners," he said. (The
New York Times)The poll also highlighted
not just the gap between the old and young, but their level of
political engagement.（The Guardian - Opinion）
The material destruction of the war not so good but that it could by this time have been repaired, had a good peace been made without delay.句子中but 后面为什么加that？他前面又为什么平白无故有一个行后置形容词？这样的话but前不是只有名词了吗…
My thought at the time was that the sample had been corrupted, but if so not by my presence.but 作为连词，其后面所连接的句子是不是省略了谓语？but if so, that was not by my presence. 这样还原对不对？
When the children were 12 or 13, they used images to best depict what they perceived their bodies to look like and were asked whether or not they engaged in any dieting behavior.在这句话中，when引导了时间状语从句吗？
...以what为引导词。例如：I can't sing what they call the song.He did not wish to live what was not life.8.与动词构成习语的同源宾语，名词中心词前面常用物主代词。例如：She ate her fill.He paid his dues.著名英语专家周海中教授在1994年发表的《英语同...
...动名词宾语”这种结构，比如:Being a bad-tempered man, he would not tolerate having his lectures interrupted.如果我来写这个句子会变成:Being a bad-tempered man, he would not tolerate his lectures be interrupted.这两个含义上有什么区别呢？
Didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with your food?整体句子结构：主谓宾+宾补一般疑问句一般过去时。宾补是否定形式的动词不定式 not(never) + to + v原形。我想知道 with your food 是宾补的一部分吗，它是修饰动词 play 的就是状语吗，...
41.coax（P460）作“to
persuade someone to do something that they do not want to do by talking to them
in a kind, gentle, and patient way 劝诱，哄；诱导”解时，构成“coax somebody into/out of doing
something”。例如：We had to coax Alan
into going to school.我们只好哄着...