...t West to realize his childhood ambition of becoming a bus driver. Despite the ￡11,000 salary and anti-social hours, John Burgin, 48, has never been happier. “Banking was a career but inthe end it became just a job,” he said,“once I knew I was leaving, I used to go outside at lu...
在 John Boynton Priestley 的 First Snow 中有这样一个句子： From my study,
which is apart from the house and faces it, I can see the children flattening
their noses against the window, and there is running through my head a rhyme I
used to repeat when I was a child and flattened my nose ag...
But to my practical mind it remained to be seen whether the passion
which obsessed him would be justified of its works. When I asked him what his brother-students at the night classes he had
attended in London thought of his painting, he answered with a grin:没看懂这里的 justified of 这样...
... copy fresh off a printer may look terrific，it will read only as well as the thinking and writing that have gone into it.这句话中，worth remembering是做什么成分。该怎么认识这种语法现象呢？it will read only as well as the thinking and writing that have gone into it.如何...
My
Portia's papa took that friendly and hospitable bill back to the Bank of
England and cashed it; then the Bank canceled it and made him a present of it,
and he gave it to us at our wedding, and it has always hung in its frame inthe
sacredest place in our home ever since. For it gave me my Portia....
Hutongs represent an
important cultural element ofthe city of Beijing. Thanks to Beijing's long
history ___63___ capital of China, almost every hutong has its stories, and
some are even associated with historic ___64___ (event). In contrast to the
court life and upper-class culture represented by t...
...、场所（或类似地点或场所的地方）的介词短语。如：
The dictionary is on the desk. 词典在桌子上。
Nothing is inthe postbox. 信箱里什么也没有。
Her husband is inthe army. 她丈夫在服兵役。
My sister is inthe fifth grade. 我妹妹上五年级。
...
Legend has it that a monster lives inthe mountains.这是一种什么结构？刘永科 Legend has it that... 这种结构，说它是一种“固定习语”当然没有问题。不过，从语言研究的角度考虑，这多少有点“搪塞”之意。我试着从语言结构和语用方面...
请看题：1. Did you see the notice
hanging/hung on the wall?2. The research is so delighted that once begins/begun nothing can be done to change it.3.____ such heavy pollution already, it may now be too late to clean up
the river.A. Having suffered B.
Suffering C. Suffered第一题为什么...
"When you're there, you know, picking them(dead birds) up off the ground and seeing the extent of it and then looking at all these carcasses come in,"这句话的背景是在美国发现了大量未知原因的鸟类死尸，一名去过现场的学者做的评论。句中的looking at...
...thirty
sounds that infinite variety of expressions which, whilst having inthemselves
no likeness to what is in our mind, allow us to disclose to others its whole
secret, and to make known to those who cannot penetrate it all that we imagine,
and all the various stirrings of our soul.请问句中出...
Despite the restrictions on freedom during the first years of world war ll, the pockets of youthful defiance that Savage describes in Germany and occupied France showed a daring contempt for fascist authority, expressing it to the beat of American pop culture. 问题一：...
The traditional view supposes that the upper mantle ofthe earth behaves as a liquid when it is subjected to small forces for long period and that differences in temperature under oceans and continents are sufficient to produce convection inthe mantle ofthe earth with rising convection currents un...
The White House seeks to avoid a double-whammy, that is, the scenario
in which Obama fails to complete the TPP in Asia or the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership in Europe, or both.
Since this would effectively undermine Obama's legacy, the US
administration is pushing aggressively both d...