...rumpet for five years. But I ended up stopping before high
school. I would have had to switch to French Horn, because band would have
conflicted with soccer, which was going tobe my college sport.I gave up the French Horn for soccer, the sport that I loved. Instead
of band, I made the JV team as a ...
"But what is there to proceed with, sir, but to deliver the money?"请教老师：1）为什么不是tobe proceeded with 被动语态呢？2）but to deliver the money 其中but是连词吗？既然是连词，后面怎么会是非谓语不定式，而不是一个完整的句子呢？ 麻...
... began to enjoy our dinner together.3. The sun (having) set,we had to stop there forthe night.4. Our luggage (having) arrived,l was dressed in a few minutes.查阅葛传椝惯用法词典，gone,come,arrived都可以作为形容词，但是，手头词典没有查到set作为形容词，表示“...
...ribeto youtheintense silence of the
night. On my island in the Paumotus there is never at night the complete
stillness that there was here. There is the rustle of the myriad animals on thebeach, all the little shelled things that crawl about ceaselessly, and there is
the noisy scurrying of the l...
...as indifferent to sensual things. He looked upon privation as no hardship. There was something impressive in the manner in which he lived a life wholly of the spirit.请教老师：这一句and when no food was tobe had he seemed capable of doing without. 没看懂，麻烦老师分析一下句法...
... future event. Logic is not popular as it once was
and this issue seems tohave died.N.D.Turton and J.B.Heaton在Longman
Dictionary of Common Errors中这样解释：✔ Who is tobe blamed for this?L.G.Alexander在Right
Word Wrong Word中这样解释：Try not to
criticize teenage children forthei...
...suade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs. I had no sooner got back tothe kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a ...
...n which
you think. . . time at school could beimproved?JAN：Yes, I think there could be a. . . a lot more encouragement in doing things fortheir own sake,
for getting the satisfaction out of them... um, rather than this “rat race” that everybody's forced into. . . um... for
what is achieved a...
... poked the page even harder. I nearly dropped
the book. I was confused: Is there something wrong with this kid?Then I realized what was happening. He was actually a stranger to
books. His father frequently amused the boy with a tablet computer which was
loaded with colorful pictures that come alive ...
"I
do not blame Jane," she continued, "for Jane would have got Mr.
Bingley, if she could. But, Lizzy! Oh, sister! it is very hard to think that
she might havebeen Mr. Collins's wife by this time, had not it been for her
own perverseness. He made her an offer in this very room, and she refused him.
...
...nd kids. These were cubs. They weighed about 2.5 kg and
were so small that there was absolutely no risk.【翻译】我有两个孩子——年龄较小的凯南对这两只虎崽的到来感到非常开心——我们所有人都非常期待成为他们生活的一部分，并看着他们成长。...
... row again, and would have lost the game every time, only the girl did thesame, she being in just my condition, you see; and consequently neither of us ever got out, or cared to wonder why we didn't; we only just knew we were happy, and didn't wish to know anything else, and didn&...
...上有这样一个句子：“It
usually takes me about ten minutes to get there by bus. 乘公交车去那儿我通常要花十分钟左右的时间。”spend
也可以表示“花费”(时间)，可以用spends
替换这个句子中的takes吗？
【答】虽然动词spend 和take
都可以表...
... that Sir Charles should (should-1) destroy your letter?""If youhave read the letter you will know.""I did not say that I had read all the letter.""You quoted some of it.""I quoted the postscript. The letter had, as I said, been burned and it was not all legi...