He looked at me. His eyes had something strange in them, so that I felt rather uncomfortable."How old are you? Twenty-three?"It seemed to me that the question was beside the point. It was natural that I should take chances; but he was a man whose youth was past, a stockbroker with a position of resp...
...e the earth can no longer support all the people 1___ on it, the second question becomes urgent. Will we discover a new world, as Columbus did, on which human life will be possible? At this point in the space age, no one can really answer these questions. We can say, 2___, that we wil...
...every day, and I’ve
come to long for that moment when the cold becomes a second skin and my
internal voice goes silent. Apart from the thrill of those first heart-stopping
dives, which, ironically, saved me from going under, what has drawn me is this
community of generous, open-hearted souls.We la...
(1)在新概念三看到一句话， Where had it come from ? 换成现在普通句就是 It have come from america. 能否说我自己是 I have come from china. 我理解现在完成时是已经完成的， 所以我感觉I have come from china.很正...
...e to know writers it was like adventuring
upon a stage which till then she had known only from the other side of the
footlights. She saw them dramatically, and really seemed herself to live a larger life because she entertained them
and visited them in their fastnesses. She accepted the rules with w...
...am sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit at the same table with a man of such character. But the fear of not being able to carry it through effectively has always made me shy of assuming the moral attitude; and in this...
...ted it.附一下原文：Their many raids and battles with foreign
peoples had opened their eyes to new ideas and taught them to relish variety
and change. And it was at this point, and in this part of the world, that
history began to progress at a much greater speed, because people no longer
believ...
... to my destination, fog formed and thickened. After picking up
the kids, I had to drive in thick fog.The children were my responsibility and I couldn't help but be _____.这里答案给的是nervous，can't help but do翻译成“禁不住”；想请教一下，有些同学将can't help but 翻译...
...l work, it also promoted the friendship among us. What a wonderful time we had!
大意是：这次活动使我们受益匪浅。不但使我们接近了大自然，从学校繁重的作业中解脱出来，而且促进了我们之间的友谊。我们玩得真开心！
我觉得句中的the frie...
...nking secrecy. As we have already mentioned,
pressure to reform the system had been building up for years. It needed this
debacle to tip the banks towards reform. 注释：this debacle=the
Credit Swiss fiasco（涉及某银行的一件大丑闻）参考译文:……正如我们已经提到的，改...
...ife Luisa Carlill went down with flu. She was shocked. For two months,
she had inhaled thrice daily from a carbolic smoke ball, a preventive measure
guaranteed to fend off the flu-if you believed the advert, which she did.请问: 这里的a preventive
measure guaranteed to fend off the flu做什么...