Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded.1. 这里的hire是hire out的意思吧，这里是不是省略了out？因为我查字典，动词hire单独使用，一般是雇佣进来...
...ing on and the hills threatened the surrounding villages with destruction, for heavy rain would not only wash away the soil but would cause serious floods as well. When the fire had at last been put out, the forest authori...
...oject mounts to several billions.
4. The
dry river way is strewn with big and small stones.
5. Although
the war brought a great loss to this country, the local cultural tradition did
not perish.
6. In
order to construct modern high buildings, many ancient ethnic buildin...
...enues and
audiences have made news organisations much less likely to brawl with readers.
This has led to less serious and more biased reporting of news outlets. While it can be argued that the media has
always been polarised, the professionalism of journalists, and their ethics
codes, put a brake on...
...t a roast chicken dinner.
But I ended up working late. Then friends called with a dinner invitation. I
stuck the chicken in the freezer. But as days passed, the arugula went bad.
Even worse, I had unthinkingly bought way too much; I could have made six
salads with what I threw out.In
a world where n...
...我们应该拒绝他的提议。2.She suggested he hadn’t been honest with her, [as indeed he hadn’t]. ？3.The deadlock is a disappointment coming [as it does]after such a promising start. 事实上，随一个充满希望的开局而来的僵局令人失望。首先想和老师请教一下我...
Mr. Yuan became the first agricultural pioneer in the world to grow
rice with a high output.请问这里为什么要用to grow？而不用growing呢？目前在下知道的是这里需要使用非谓语，请问为什么要用动词不定式呢，是因为这里是要表目的吗？而又为什么...
When I was ten I was suddenly confronted with the anguish of moving from the only home I had ever known. My whole life, brief as it was, had been spent in that big old house, gracefully touched with the laughter and tears of four generations.touch with 是联系的意思吗？gracefully在这用法...
a man of great achievementa man of great achievemtnsa man with great achievementa man with great achievements请问哪个用法正确？介词of / with 在这种搭配中如何确定？ achievement 何时可数？何时作不可数名词？
...local cheese accompanied by
bread often twelve months old, all washed down with coarse wine.这里的all washed down
with coarse wine是独立结构作状语，但里面又有with coarse wine，这个部分怎么理解，也是作状语吗？状语套状语？
1）You could
say that I ordered takeout with such frequency that my dialing finger
practically started to evolve into the shape of a phone key.这句中的such是限定词，限定修饰frequency,
然后that引导结果状语从句。限定词such的意思是：如此的，这样的，要根据上...
请问，What makes his headmaster unsatisfied with him is (that) he often breaks the school rules.这个句子为什么不能再用It is .....that 强调。强调的话不就是 A： It is he often breaks the school rules that What makes his headmaster unsatisfied with...
...seen holding his mobile phone in his hand after falling asleep on a Metro, with a message in large font on the screen which reads, “Please wake me if you need my seat.”这里为什么用 doing，不用 to do 呢？