When
the doors of the Asile de Nuit were closed to them, Strickland and Captain
Nichols sought the hospitality of Tough Bill. This was the master of a sailors'
boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the stranded mariner
food and shelter till he found him a berth. They lived with ...
...u’re very welcome.” “非常感谢。”“不用那么客气。”“Were you surprised?” “Yes, very.” “让你吃惊了吗？”“是的，非常吃惊。”They weren’t very nice (to me). [= they didn’t treat
me well; they were mean to me ] 他们（对我）不太友好。(以...
...splendour of unfaded beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption. What were virtue, love, patriotism, friendship—what were the scenery of this beautiful universe which we inhabit; what were our consolations on this side of the grave--and what were our aspirations beyond it, if poetry did not a...
...ovka mammoth which was found preserved and
in good condition. In his mouth were the remains of fir trees - the last meal
that he had before he fell into the crevasse and broke his back. 1）这个
as by falling into inaccessible caves 怎么分析理解？这是比较句吗？2）这个when
the whol...
Moreover, the very low prevalence of infection in Neanderthal populations suggests that infection was an unlikely cause, leaving nutritional deficiencies, especially in the form of periodic food shortages, as the most likely causative agents.句中：especially in the form of periodic food shortages...
...y, but now to be more than twenty-five is absurd. I think in those days we were a little shy of our emotions, and the fear of ridicule tempered the more obvious forms of pretentiousness. 1) Then it was a distinction to be under forty - 这句中的distinction前为什么可加a？ 查牛津词典...
...en moving to Utah that the Mormons, who once represented 75 percent of the population, now account for only half.
老师上边这句话是考题中正确选项中的一句话，请问accounting for only half是不是accounting only half of the population的省略呢？
如果是这里可以...
...ilm-maker David Bond realised that his children, then
aged five and three, were attached to screens to the point where he was able to
say "chocolate" into his three-year-old son’s ear without getting a
response. He realised that something needed to change, and, being a London
media type, appointed...
To
Catherine and Lydia, neither the letter nor its writer were in any degree
interesting. It was next to impossible that their cousin should come in a
scarlet coat, and it was now some weeks since they had received pleasure from
the society of a man in any other colour. As for their mother, Mr. Coll...
It was the quietest wood you could possibly imagineThere were no birds, no insects, no animals, and no wind. You could almost feel the trees growing.They were no bigger than ordinary rings, and you couldn't help noticing them because they were so bright.But it was a nicer sound than that, a more...
...world, and the only place colder was Caledonia to the North, where the men were more animal than human and covered in orange fur, and were too savage even to be conquered by the Romans, so would soon be walled off in their perpetual winter.书中的中文翻译为：除了北边的爱尔兰，没有...
...ilm-maker David Bond realised that his children, then
aged five and three, were attached to screens to the point where he was able to
say "chocolate" into his three-year-old son’s ear without getting a
response. He realised that something needed to change, and, being a London media type,
appointed...
... to the enhancement of the monuments ① in order to sensitize the local population to the importance and necessity of its protection and preservation and assist in the development of the site as Angkor is a living heritage site where Khmer people in general, but especially the local population...