She did not truly know him; theirs had been a brief afternoon encounter more than twelve years before.请问这个句子中的 theirs 是什么意思？它是指代什么？另外句中的more than twelve years before 如何理解？是指“12多年前”？
rather than 后面可以接分句表示转折，如 We should help him rather than he should help us. instead做副词用，She said nothing, preferring instead to save her comments till later.这两个用法是不是都表示转折，区别只是词性上的
Thank you for everything you have done for Lily so that she can foucus on study. 请教专家老师，这条祝福语有语病吗？谢谢老师。我认为这句话不正确。Thank you是说话人发出的动作。主句的动作应该是由You发出的，并且不能是“thanks”, 应该是 You...
... so much as. In effect,
nearly the same as, as in Mom as much as told Jane she couldn't go, or The
clerk so much as accused the customer of shoplifting. 请问老师，这里In effect和nearly the same
as是什么意思？后面的as in又怎么理解呢？Also, so much as为什么单独放这里...
...对不对？Ms Haberman has always taken Mr Trump seriously, as someone, she writes here, who was “shrewd and smarter than his critics gave him credit for, possessed of a survival instinct that was likely unmatched in American political history”.比较项是smarter，credit for后面省略动名...
...主义者文章中有一句话:Some associated her death to the policy she had sponsored to abolish bride price,or the practice of paying a man for the hand of his daughter in marriage.这段话前半部分我还看得明白，后半部分，就是从单词or往后就看不明白了，是不是其...
...的一些语法书上提到了 but that 可以表示隐含条件，如：She would have cried, but
that he would laugh. 要不是他会笑，她就哭了。（《薄冰高级英语语法》）But that I saw it, I
wouldn’t have believed it. 要不是亲眼目睹,我还不信呢。（《英汉大词...
Immediately she'd
gone, the boys started to mess about. 她一走开，那些男孩就闹成一团。I'll call you
immediately I hear anything. 我一有甚么消息就给你打电话。这两句子中的 immediately 本来是副词，但在上面的句子中用作连词，表示 as soon as 的意...
It is the temperature of air that surrounds our parcel that determines
whether it continues to rise or stabilises.疑惑为什么前面有It is？the temperature of air that surrounds our parcel是定语从句修饰后的主语，determines是谓语，whether it
continues to rise or stabilises是宾...
And
it is providing to be an increasing powerful tool in encouraging people to
purchase. 这是北京高考真题阅读理解中的一句话，这里的 it is providing that是什么用法， providing在这里该怎么理解呢？