They _______(arrive) in new york,they are in the hotel now.They _______(go) away, they are back at home now.Everyone _______(go) home, the office is empty now.请问这三个句子改用完成时还是过去时,还是都可以呢?
1.You may as well expect a river to flow backward as hope ro change my mind.(may是否为might之误)
2.You might as well reason with him as reason wowh a wolf!(reason with him是否该和reason with wolf调换位置)
make matters worse / make things worse 是英语的固定搭配,好像它们总是以不定式的形式出现,用作独立成分,意思是“更糟的是”。如:To make matters worse, he refused to apologize. 更糟的是他拒不道歉。To make matters worse, my friend then lost her keys...
下面的句子摘自 2016 年高考江苏卷完形填空:Never at a loss for words, I tried to find things in my life that might qualify for growth.这句不太好理解,更不好翻译,尤其句子的最后部分。 原文背景:Never at a loss for words, I tried to find things in my ...
...么也不...,但是搜索时看到几篇篇外文中引用这句话表达的意思是“你不能过度装饰或者过度教育”,这难道是根据上下文来理解的吗?外文摘要如下:1. Many people stand by the classic advice that you never want to look like you tired too hard.&nbs...
前面有网友提问《require doing与require to do的用法区别》,与此相关的问题,《现代英语惯用法词典》(李在铭著,现代出版社)在p437页认为下面一句中的 verb-ing 表示被动的意义:To carry out this plan would require increasing our staff by 50%....