There are many tools available to help people quit, and getting support
from your free local stop smoking service will give you the best chance of
stopping successfully.这句话的stop 是名词吗?后面接smoking这是什么用法?动名词复合结构吗?
下面这个句子的5%后面为什么没有介词of?
The staff receive 5% commission on everything that they sell.
可以这样说吗?
The staff receive 5% of the commission on everything that they sell.
It was their way of diversifying their portfolios, hedging their bets against a downturn at home. 请问如何翻译这句话?这两个分词短语是并列句吗?感觉翻译成并列的也对啊?但又感觉第二个分词短语修饰prolios.
this catastrophe was a series of storms that dumped vast quantities of mud upon a community of animals, burying them alive.这里的them指代a community of animals吗,是因为指这些个体都被埋了用的有them吗,alive是them的宾补吗?