Especially Mr. Skidder, who had cast her in his mind for the star part in a private, romantic (unspoken) drama in real life. And especially Mr. Hoover, who was forty-five, fat, flush and foolish. 书上是这么翻译的：特别是斯基德先生，莉森小姐早就是他心里暗恋的现实...
I had not yet
learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is
in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, nor how much goodness in the
reprobate.请教老师：宾语从句how contradictory is human nature 中how 应该是副词，修饰形容词contradictory的...
He
had a sweet and generous nature, and yet was always blundering; a real feeling
for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace; a
peculiar delicacy of sentiment and gross manners. He could exercise tact when
dealing with the affairs of others, but none when dealing wit...
...writer
of a dictionary is a historian, not a lawgiver. If, for example, we had been
writing a dictionary in 1890, or even as late as 1919, we could have said that
the word “broadcast” means “to scatter” (seed, for example), but we could not have laid down that from 1919
on the most common me...
例句：The maid told him that she had burnt everything as she thought it was of no use.语义是：女仆告诉他：因为她认为没有用了，所以她烧了所有事物从时间先后的角度来说，是thought在烧的动作前，而as状从句中thought用的一般式。老师，我想提...
...动词的否定式, 要用 before, 一般不用until (till)。例如：He had not done anything be f ore she came. 她来之前, 他什么也没有做。They were not rich before 2001. 他们在2001 年以前并不富裕。但是，我的印象中，老师曾说过，not…until…的主句谓语可...
...utiful girl about my age, she bought the ticket for me when hearing that I had lost my wallet.有人说这个句子中的 a beautiful girl about my age 是同位语。但我不明白，为什么同位语可以放到放到前面去呢？同位语一般是放在后面的吧！请专家老师解答，...
The commission has also charged Tsang with failing to disclose he had proposed a government award for an architect he hired to redecorate the apartment.▲查字典：propose somebody for something 提名某人做某事propose something to someone 向某人提议用 He proposed a...
下面是一道中考题：He had a ( ) visit to Canada last month.A. ten daysB. ten-dayC. ten-daysD. ten day答案是B, 但是我认为上述除了C错误，其他3个答案都是正确的。因为我在语法书上查询到a ten-day absence, a ten day absence, a ten days absence, a ten days&...
新编英语语法教程中,说有的介词意义上等于that 从句:Did anyone inform you of the change of the plans?=Did anyone inform you that the plans had been changed?是做状语吗? 因为that是宾语,构成双宾, of the change of the plans是状语吗? 什么状语呢?
He has been away for one minute.他已经离开一分钟了。
He has had this book for two months.他买这本书已有两个月了。在这两个例子中，应是把left和lent换成了一种状态。
但是对于其他的表达，如我已经修好这个车子三小时了，可不可以用 hav...
...是用having been told?when asked the reason for their success，the kids had two
explanation. 这两句话很像，但是第二句就用的是asked，同样都是主句为过去，从句要用被动态过去分词，为什么第二句不用having been asked呢？
...
as well as using social networks and taking photos. Road accidents, which had
fallen for years, are now rising sharply. That is partly because people are
driving more, but Mark Rosekind, the chief of the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, said distracted (分心)
driving was “only in...
...further to say.A. As B.Because C.Since D.For2.Jack was worried____he hadn’ t had any letter from his mother for long.3.We can’t go to see him today____we are going away very soon.4.He didn’t agree to join them,____he didn’t have time for a holiday.