老师好,请教下这句话:Sicily was colonized by Phoenicians,Carthaginians,and Greeks starting in the 8th century.这里的starting现在分词,和主语Sicily什么关系?是作伴随情况吗?可以理解为following一样为介词吗?有劳老师指教,多谢!
The accord banned any land-based missiles from Europe with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, whether nuclear or conventional.
最后的是不是状语从句省略,补全为whether nuclear or conventional missiles are?
请问各位专家老师:Try as he might (=however hard he tried), he couldn't open the door.这里Try as he might 为什么等于however hard he tried? 另外,这里为什么用might这个词?是might的一种特殊用法吗?