老师好,我有几个问题想请教。I can understand all ofit, but there are a lot of Filipinos living in Australia, so we have had experience listening to their speech. 这句话里的 listening to their speech 是experience 的定语吗?我总觉得这里看着有点别扭,如果...
...别,就非常好懂(结合上述例句):INis talking about sth inthe future from NOW.AFTER is talking about an event inthe future after ANOTHER event.所以火车10分钟后开,不用after,因为它是 happens after NOW;毕业后我要当翻译,不用in而用after,是因为当...
...卷经改编后afford这个词还是保留了下来。原文出自于How the elevator
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Zespriis risking millions of dollars on the launch of an entirely new product, the bald, gold kiwifruit. The effort, Zespri says, has been a great success. But with Zespri Gold making up only 10 percent of total New Zealand kiwifruit production, the company must be careful to continue to promote th...
The
story is one of scores in To Forgive Design:Understanding Failure,
a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean to its
breakdowns. Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about
disasters. In this book he includes the loss ofthe space shuttles Challenger
and Colu...
John has said that the part (played by custom in shaping the behavior
oftheindividual) as over against any way(in which he can
affect traditional custom), is as the proportion ofthe total vocabulary of his mother tongue (over against those words of his own
baby talk (that are taken up into th...
The 50th Division overcame
its initial difficulties by mid-morning and by nightfall had advanced almost to
the outskirts of Bayeux, closer to its prescribed objectives than any other
Allied formation on D-Day. Closer by far than the US 1st Infantry Division,
which on Omaha beach had undergone the wo...
老师好,On August 13, 1868, the warship U. S. S. Wateree, anchored inthe harbor of Arica, off the coast of what is now northern Chile, rode on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave) and came to rest inthe Atacama Desert, some three miles up the coast and almost two miles inland from its ini...
Whether the eyes are “the window ofthe soul” is debatable; that they are intensely important ininterpersonal communication is a fact. During the first two months of a baby’s life, the stimulus that produces a smile is a pair of eyes. The eyes need not be real: a mask with two dots will pro...
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