... allowed us to put him to bed without a word. He was ill for six weeks. At one time it looked as though he could not live more than a few hours, and I am convinced that it was only through the Dutchman's doggedness that he pulled through. I have never known a more difficult patient. It was not that ...
...
English grammarians hate sentences ending in a preposition. But this is one of
those formal English rules that derive ultimately from there being a history of
deciding that English should work like Latin, therefore anything wrong in Latin
is wrong in English, and ultimately this just doesn't reflec...
...ions to come.
Since 1934, better than half a billion dollars has gone into that Fund
to purchase more than 5 million acres of habitat. Little wonder the Federal
Duck Stamp Program has been called one of the most successful conservation
programs ever initiated.
...r. 他是位有能力的经理。He’s an able politician, but he’s not one of us. 他是位能干的政治家，但他不是我们自己人。The government is
led by an able team of skilled politicians. 政府由一批干练的政治家领导。(2)用作表语：He is old but
still able. 他...
...g with his business partners. 他在和他的生意伙伴开会。China is one of our
major trading partners. 中国我们的主要贸易伙伴之一。China is one of the
biggest trading partners of the USA.
中国是美国最大的贸易伙伴之一。※真题例句※It has a strong partner. 它...
...思不同：
Who’s playing in
goal? 谁做守门员?
Our team had only
one shot on goal. 我们队只有一次射门。
※真题例句※
Her team did not
get one serious shot on goal. 她所在的球队没有一次像样的射门。(2015全国卷Ⅱ完形)
【单词档案】
1.属课标内...
...oves postcards, and the excitement of getting a
hand-written note from someone far away.“I often send postcards to family and friends,” he
says to China Daily, “but you can
imagine that after a while, you never receive as many as you send, and you
realize that not everyone is into it. And that...
...er face was a mask that told nothing. Her hands lay on her lap motionless, one
in the other loosely clasped. I knew from what I had heard that she was a woman
of violent passions; and that injurious blow that she had given Dirk, the man
who had loved her so devotedly, betrayed a sudden temper and a ...
...to sb。如：Tell us your name. 告诉我们你的名字。Tell me your phone number again. 再给我说一遍你的电话号码。Tell us the whole story. 把整个情况讲给我们听。(2) tell sb about sth/sb：意思是“将关于某事或某人的情况告诉某人”，其中的
about 表...
...析 go the way of是什么用法？原题全文如下：When almost everyone has a mobile phone, why are
more than half of Australian homes still paying for a landline?These days you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in Australia
over the age of 15 who doesn’t own a mobile phone. In fact plenty o...
...re you find the repeats
in the music when you have to go back to the right spot.” Mr Titterton
explained.Being a page turner requires plenty of practice.
Some pieces of music can go for 40 minutes and require up to 50 page turns,
including back turns for repeat passages. Silent onstage communicati...
...oast. And for three
days afterwards the sea was stormy. Gray clouds chased one another across the sky.
Then the wind dropped, and the sea was calm and blue. The Pacific is more
desolate than other seas; its spaces seem more vast, and the most ordinary
journey upon it has somehow the feeling of an ad...
...pe (风景) Photographer of
the Year Award, was the idea of Charlie Waite, one of today’s most respected
landscape photographers. Each year, the high standard of entries has shown that
the Awards are the perfect platform to showcase the very best photography of
the British landscape. Take a view i...