"Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it.""I've got to paint," he repeated."Supposing you're never anything more than third-...
请教专家老师：We
enjoy reading about them, especially when we find that, like the praying
mantis, they lead perfectly horrible lives. We enjoy staring at them, entranced
as they go about their business, unaware (we hope) of our presence.Who has not stood in awe at the sight of a spider pounci...
...《牛津英语用法指南》第四版353节） I was about to go to bed when the telephone rang . 我正要睡觉，忽然电话响了。（摘自《牛津英语用法指南》第四版353节）【注意】这里的when = and then, 所以 when the telephone rang 不是时间状语从句，它...
... they have diverse ideas. Dreams might be a side effect of memory making. When you sleep, your brain sorts through everything that happened during the day, trying to link new experiences to old memories. As it connects things, your brain turns them into a story, and you get a dream.翻译：我...
...合的文章中一句话…four people can
be seated into four chairs, but when dealing with larger numbers， this can take
quite a while。but when…应是做副词修饰作用的一个状语从句，但从句中为何不使用动词原形deal with，而使用分词形式呢？
Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn't know for sure?这句话并不缺成分，为什么when引导的是定语从句而不是时间状语从句？
When the Internet was
invented, it changed the world.When the Internet was
invented, it changes the world.请问老师，是changed还是changes？也就是说，如果从句是过去时，但是主句的范围覆盖到现在，那么是主句是应该用现在时还是过去时呢？谢谢！
例句如下：The policeman asked the thief, “when were you born?”The policeman asked the thief when he / she was born.转为间接引语后为何不是when he / she had been born(变为过去完成时)？