"Wasn't Joan supposed to be here by now ?""Don't worry, she'll be here in about twenty minutes." (TOEFL)既然是时间状语by now，为什么前面使用了一般过去时Wasn't呢？我不能理解。是否应该改成Isn't呢？望老师答疑解惑，谢...
Alan will become the yardstick against which all future boyfriends will be measured.请问此处定语从句为啥要把介词against提前？修改为下面这样，可以吗Alan will become the yardstick which all future boyfriends will be measured against.谢谢老师解答
Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?请问老师，这句话的句法结构是 so...that 句型吗？难道这个句型可以在that前加逗号？
..., is tired of such complaints. Asking
about “the point” of ALife might be,
well, missing the point entirely, he says. “The existence of a living system is
not about the use of anything.” Alan says. “Some people ask me, ‘So what’s the
worth of artificial life?’ Do you ever think, ‘W...
... as it were, against his will. I could not understand. He seemed really to be possessed of a devil, and I felt that it might suddenly turn and rend him. 请教老师：1)如何理解这里用了虚拟语气as it were, against his will. ?2)这里用了be possessed of a devil, 按照词典用法，...
...形前加上助动词do来表示强调。如：Do sit down! 请坐呀! Do be quiet! 请别作声啦! Do come with us. 请一定要和我们一起来。Do be careful. This floor is quite slippery. 务必小心一点。这个地板是滑的。 请问这种用法礼貌吗？是否会让人觉得不客...
Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective, a strain of critical opinion in the 1920s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty that would soon fade from sight, just as had many previous attempts, dating well back before the First World War, to link images with recor...
She has argued that wild animals should be left in the wild and not used for entertainmen or advertisements.that 引导的宾从么 可以省略么？should be left 是被动语态吧 那后面的in the wild 看做状语对吗，有人说是主语补足语。
It was going to be at a hotel near where their school used to be.这句话中，如果理解成where为定语从句中的关系副词，near where作地点状语倒装于句首可以吗？where作为连接副词在名词性从句中可以做表语，当作为关系副词在定语从句中可以做...
...ced manufacturing and resource efficiency. Typically, we’ll invest between $200,000 and 300,000 in fundraising rounds of between $700,000 and $1.5 million. We’ll be looking to syndicate deals. We’ll still be investing in seed-stage companies.如何理解这个动词短语are looking at e...
He concluded that the world could be redeemed only by a new religion, whose function it should be to nourish and strengthen the feeble altruism of human.it在句子里是什么成分？it怎么解释？