...ssion. There were others even more pressing if the kingdom were to be safe and prosper. Internally it was divided by deep dissensions amongst its people; externally it was weak by comparison with its nearest continental neighbors. Within less than twenty years it had been forcibly subjected to three...
If
that’s hard to understand, let’s keep it as simple as the arugula at the back
of my refrigerator. Mike Curtin sees my arugula story all the time — but for
him, it’s more like 12 boxes of donated strawberries nearing their last days.
Curtin is CEO of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C.,...
...fore she could speak English. Her mother had travelled widely in her youth and liked literature very much. After being educated by her mother and by a Chinese teacher, Pearl S. Buck went to school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen. She continued her education in the United States at a Woman’s Coll...
我写的这句话可以这样表达吗？We cannot know ourselves objectively, just as we cannot lift up or see ourselves with our own arms and eyes.这样放到一起可以吗？还是要拆开写：Just as we cannot lift up ourselves with our own arms and see ourselves with our own eyes?
... places. They can cheaply supply power generated far away to millions and, as they incorporate more wind and solar energy, they are becoming greener.老师您好，请问此处的 far away 修饰的对象是什么？如何翻译才能精确传达句意？
人性的弱点里的一句：she simply went back to the kitchen and repeated what I had said, and such is the force of faith that no one made fun of her.请问这里that引导的从句是faith的同位语从句，还是单纯和前面的such相呼应？（因为such is...that 这种结构第一次...
In Britain, for example, many of our best-loved farmland birds, such as the skylark, the grey partridge, the lapwing and the corn bunting, have vanished from huge streches of countryside, as have even more wild flowers and insects.书上说as指代“have vanished from huge streches of countryside...
Spoken and gestural are by their very nature ephemeral.这句话是形容词前置作表语完全倒装对吗，怎么改回原本句子呢？请问这句话原本是这样的吗?By their very nature, spoken and gestural are ephemeral.如果是这样的句子，为啥spoken和gestural两个形容词...
（1）In a long drop 的介词 in 的精确意思是什么？（2）and more 补全为：and more (than 60 miles an hour) 吗？（3）At high speeds 是这个句子的哪种状语呢？是否存在省略 being 呢？之所以问是否省略，是因为：At 2,473 metres, it is the
highest mountain...
1)I
learn to use English better this way. 2)We
can form comparative and superlative adverbs in the same way we form
comparative and superlative adjectives.上面2个句子中，关于way的用法请教老师。第一句是不是省略了in, 即I learn to use English better (in) this way.
?第二句....
But the only way college could be free is if the faculty and staff
donated their time,the buildings require no maintenance and campuses required
no utilities.老师，way后面为什么不加关系副词？如果加的话，需要加什么关系副词？
...和工具”译为英文，课上任课老师翻译的为“the materials and tools used by paper cutting”用的过去分词作后置定语，但这句话如果用现在分词翻译为“paper cutting using the materials and tools”可行吗？麻烦老师帮忙解答，万分感谢！
It is the parents’ job to provide a clean and comfortable environment
at home for their children.我想请教一下at home为什么不放在for their children的后面而要放在前面，为啥不是provide a clean
and comfortable environment for their children at home.这样翻译就更通顺啊...
My brothers and sisters all went to help in the farm field and left me taking care of the clothes-washing.这句中的 take care of 不是“照顾”的意思吧，好像应该理解为“负责”。请问一下，take care of 有这样的用法吗？
原句：It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.这件事之所以令人吃惊，是因为不论是外表还是风度，他都会让人明白无误地看出他的身份。以上句子出自小说《A Friend In Need》我认为原句省略了系...