So, too, with the complex skill of writing. We have talked about many
separate skills in this book. But good writing is not just the sum of those
skills, it's not a matter of good words + good sentences + good paragraphs +
good forms. Instead, you need to combine, to integrate those skills. This mea...
By the beginning ofthe 20th century, with both the refinement oftheinternal-combustion engine and the realisation by the navies ofthe great
powers that their ships could go farther and faster with boilers fuelled by oil
rather than coal, reliable access to oil in times of war became a major
secu...
she had just resumed a normal pace and had just skirted the foot of a little hill, when she saw two or three villagers hurrying towards her…skirt v. 绕着…的边缘问题一just…when…可以算于一个句型吗?还是说这里just只是一个修饰词问题二上文的是这个意思吗 j...
And the horror that fascinated him and gave such dreadful unity to his tales is often the unavoidable conflict ofthe self by a perfect justice, the exposure of a guilty act in a form that makes its reveal a falling back ofthe mid against itself. 请问划线部分怎么理解? 这里这个m...
Just before I left the hospital, I came
across two young women intheir thirties, both with small children and both
with cancer. I thought, well, what am I worrying about, because my children are
grown up and independent. If I can get this right for myself and make some sort
of peace with it, then t...
The moon is clearly unhappy and her moon is juxtaposed against Sandra
and Lancy's good humour, such as when
the narrator says the moon feels her own loneliness more acutely inthe
presence of human happiness.请问老师:such as when the narrator says the moon feels her own loneliness more
acutely...
...ng alone,if hungry,injured,or ill,often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest cabinor settlement.解析说turn to是求助于的意思,那为什么不写成have nowhere to turn to呢?nowhere是副词,它可以做have 和turn to 的宾语吗,朗文字典有一个例句是 I have no ...
《人性的弱点》的一句:Whlhelm, the last ofthe German Kaisers, building an army and navy that he boasted could whip their weight in wildcats.请问这里的whip their weight in wildcats 什么意思?
3D printing services are coming into American people’s life. The UPS Store is a nationwide retailer (零售商) that provides copying and other services. The UPS Store recently put 3D printers in three of its independently-owned stores. Burke Jones owns one ofthe stores in San Diego.“The demand...
1. I seldom trust the workers in that company, most of whom talk much but do very little. 这里可以把whom改成them吗?2. You might try your lck in Beijing, where there are a lot of job opportunities. 这里where 可以换成because或者 in which吗?还有一个不是定语从句的问题...
We warned our children of/about the dangers of playing inthe street.Janet warned me about the water. She said it wasn't safe to drink.这两个句子中 warned 后面所接介词为什么有区别? 是warned of和warned about在意思上有什么区别吗?
1. Scientists believe there are some things inthe sky that we will never see.That's because they look black—although they give off light,the light can never reach us. They are the surprising dead stars called the balck holes. 请问:surprising 在此会不会多余?是什么意思?...
Inthe most high and palmy state of Rome,a little
ere the mightiest Julius fell,the graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
did squeak and gibber inthe Roman streets: as stars with trains of fire and
dews of blood, disasters inthe sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence
Neptune’s empir...
...ing a far-reaching restructuring of China's state-controlled telcos inthe face of concerns over China Mobile's overwhelming domestic dominance - it has a 70 per cent market share and 369 million customers.老师:您好!这段话中,我有两个短语意思不明白:(1) China's s...