...ng something（P2118）作“British English spoken if you do not rate
someone’s chances of achieving something, you do not think that it is likely
that they will achieve it 【英，口】看好某人（有可能做某事）；认为某人（有可能做成某事）”解。例如：I don’t rat...
The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees, shrubs and plants. 毛虫以各类树木、灌木和植物为食。这个句子中的 the caterpillars 是表示整个“毛虫”类属吧？为什么既用复数还要加定冠词呢？应该是只取其一吧！比如：Caterpillars feed on a w...
...t floods left——all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.翻译是：以阿斯旺大坝为例，它挡住了尼罗河的洪水，但也使埃及失去了洪水冲积的肥沃土壤，换回来的却是一个病态的大水库...
I confess there is no woe like his correction, nor no such joy on earth as in his service.
我承认天底下再没有比爱情的责罚更痛苦的，也没有比服侍它更快乐的事了。 这里的第二个句子如果表示也没有的话只有一个nor不...
Hundreds of equipment operators zoom around the 880-acre site on warehouse tugs, pulling behind them trains of silver shipping containers shaped like half-igloos(圆顶建筑). In an earsplitting operation dubbed “the matrix” package sorters corral boxes into a single-file line for a trip down a...
...r as a woman had she fixed Dumbledore withsuch a piercing stare as she did now.翻译（豆包）：不管是猫形态还是人形态下都没有此刻这样的凝视。请问：neither nor含有的否定意义转移到后面的谓语上，这是一种语法现象还是翻译处理；还有类似的...
When I had asked him what first gave him the idea ofbeing a painter, he was unable or unwilling to tell me. I could make nothing of it. I tried to persuade myself than an obscure feeling of revolt had been gradually coming to a head in his slow mind, but to challenge this was the undoubted fact th...
Historian Sir Simon Schama is also a
supporter of the project. He said that arts education in schools was not just
an add-on. “It is absolutely necessary. The future depends on creativity and
creativity depends on the young. What will remain of us when artificial
intelligence takes over will be ou...