...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-rate, do yo...
...选五 Writing
an essay is a difficult process for most people. However, the process can be
made easier if you learn to practice three simple techniques. 翻译：对大多数人来说，写文章是一个困难的过程。然而，如果你学会练习三个简单的技巧，这个过程会变得...
A backlog inthe courts means that lawyers are more likely to settle cases out of court, which means less jail time, and judges are more likely to send
many cases that have been waived to criminal court back to juvenile court.
问：
我查了字典，waive是及物动词，这里waive 是...
For parents, giving children the best start in life has come to mean doing everything they can to ensure that their children can climb to a higher class, or at least not fall out of the one they were born into.这里can后面省略了do吗？ensure that后面都是宾语从句，而they can后面都...
刘老师您好，学生向您请教几个问题：一、 Added tothe shyness of his look was a faint streak of melancholy.请您举几个被动语态的倒装句子这个倒装是为了强调么？二、All the houses inthe village were built of wood, some of which, blackened with the passag...
"Laugh
as much as you chuse, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. My dearest
Lizzy, do but consider in what a disgraceful light it places Mr. Darcy, to be
treating his father's favourite in such a manner, -- one, whom his father had
promised to provide for. -- It is impossible. No man of com...
...ve children.请问这里的 including five children是状语成分吗？2.They will send you the book for ＄15, postage included.请问这里的postage included也是状语吧，included是过去分词形式的形容词，可以放在名词前面也可以放在后面对吗？for ＄15是做后置...
A year and half later, my grandfather became gravely ill. When he returned from several weeks inthe hospital, he wanted his bed next tothe window, where he could see his beloved rosebush.from 加weeks是什么意思？还有in从医院里回来吗？
...后句话里反身代词为什么是 himself 而不是 herself？WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES(July 14)Stars: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve ZahnDirector: Matt ReevesThe skinny: Caesar (played via performance capture by Serkis) leads a simian bunch on an epic journey to save ape...
In his opinion, reducing the quantity of things we produce can lead to some people losing their jobs.lead to doing sth 可以理解，这个 lead to sb doing sth 理解不了，望老师解答一下。是因为 losing 作非谓语动词吗？作定语修饰people？
...可能是为了与前句翻译的衔接），有没有更好的翻译？Another difference between ought/should
and must and have to is that with must and have to we normally
have the impression that the obligation is being or will be fulfilled. This is
particularly the case with the first person bu...
Though the crew were at first under the impression that the lost ship had been found, the contents of the chest proved them wrong.改成 the contents inthe chest 是不是一样的效果？
Southbank, at an eastern bend inthe Thames, is the center of British skateboarding, where the
continuous crashing of skateboards left your head ringing. I loved it. I soon
made friends with the local skaters. We spoke our own language. And my
favorite: Safe. Safe meant cool. It meant hello. It mean...
It is a wild night indoors, and what must it be in a stone hut upon the moor. What passion of hatred can it be which leads a man to lurk in such a place at such a time! And what deep and earnest purpose can he have which calls for such a trial! There, in that hut upon the moor, seems to lie the very...