...om postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPS's ultimate overseer—Congress—insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get protected. Thisis why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed...
"Get the children," his wife blurted, then dashed to the door to call the older boy. He stared at her a brief moment, seeing the fear in her face, but also a loathing for all men involved inthe making and dispatch of nuclear weapons.1. involved in是过去分词做定语吗?意思是被...
His supporters argue that he needed to
arrogate more power to himself in order to
modernise the country’s society and economy—proposing the sale of shares inthe
national oil company, and
liberalising the position of women.请问老师,扩折号后面的两个ing作什么成分?
The celebrated British architect is responsible for Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre -- a towering and transparent tent-shaped structure that opened in 2010 and lights up in neon at night.复合形容词 towering and transparent tent-shaped 里,transparent 和 tent-shaped 之间为什么没有联...
若表示在奥运会上,英语是用什么介词?是用 inthe Olympic Games 还是at the Olympic Games?书上用的是 in,可以用 at 吗?Atlanta was a Greek princess. She was very beautiful and could run faster than any man in Greece. But she was not allowed to run and win glory for he...
The sun rose inthe east yesterdayHe was my father yesterdayI had a cat yesterday是不是都要用一般现在时如果现在这些事物都存在的话,比如第一个客观真理,第二他还是我爸爸,我现在还有只猫。或者省略了yesterday是不是要用一般现在时,如果...
为什么The window is broken.里,broken只能当形容词讲,表示状态;而在The window was
broken.里,broken既可以理解为形容词,也可以当做瞬间动词?以及,还有什么词是类似的用法,就是be done里done只能作形容词讲,而was/were done里done既可...
One of the consequences of our planet's being warming up is a(n) increase inthe number of natural disasters. 有人解释说 warm 是不及物动词,所以它的 -ing 形式只能被视为形容词性的现在分词,这句话怎么理解?
Unless a certain amount of time is allowed to elapse, it seems intheir eyes as if the task being considered were insignificant, not worthy of proper respect. 这句中not worthy of 怎么理解啊?是not being worthy of proper respect这个形式的省略吗?是做状语吗,
雅思听力中有这样一句话:Over the years, we've expanded the premises considerably — we were
lucky that the site is big enough, so moving to a new location has never been
necessary.请问为什么是we were lucky呢?不应该是说we are lucky that the site
is big enough吗?