...You mayn’t die after all.(T. Hardy: Jude the Obscure)Mayn’t I sit down now?(E. Eliot: Mill on the Floss)That we’ve hired for three months and mayn’t live in three weeks!(D. H.
Lawrence: Kangaroo)It mayn’t be so easy start her, but once started, she’s a ingein.( C.
Dickens: Our Mutual Fri...
Ah, the Buddhists believe you keep coming back..Moving up or down a level, based on how you lived your life.这句话中coming back,和moving up or down a level是不是都是keep的宾语？based的主语是keep的主语you吗？
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train just arrived at the platform six is the delayed 13:15 from Hereford.
(PEU)以上各例中的过去分词均具有主动意义，即它们所修饰的名词（人或物）发出了这个行为。因此PEU称之为“主动的过去分词”（active past
participle）。2.
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Mr. Halpern's book will come to more informed conclusions that I can;
but my own instinct, from the research and from observation, is to draw only
two. 请问is to draw only two中 be to 是个什么用法呢？看着也不像不定式，这段话be去掉也是可以的吧？
老师好，①Crises in international diplomacy do not always result from malice; for nations, like individuals, can find themselves locked into difficult positions, unable to back down.请问老师，unable to back down，形容词作状语吗？修饰locked？②For the first time in the modern e...
这句话对吗：Crude methanol from coal and natural gas is both favorable feedstock for the process. 受句意影响，是不是应该改成Crude methanol(s) from coal and natural gas are both favorable feedstock for the process.虽然methanol应该是没法加s的，不可数。...
...Tahiti. Murea, the sister isle, comes into
view in rocky splendour, rising from the desert sea mysteriously, like the
unsubstantial fabric of a magic wand. With its jagged outline it is like a
Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights
guard with strange rites myster...
...imming in December, and John went swimming in it too.错误：I ate dinner on the fourth floor, and John ate dinner on it too.2)然而如果是不够具体的时间或地点，就可以用it代替：正确：Everyone who likes a winter month goes swimming in it.正确：Everyone who likes a particul...