This time experts reckon that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more fluctuant.翻译：这一次专家估计，艺术品价格相比其高峰值，平均下降了40%。不过，有些艺术品价格波动要大得多。对于这个句子我有两个疑问...
The discovery of vast petroleum fields in the Barents and Kara Seas has raised fears of catastrophic accidents as ships loaded with oil and, soon, liquefied gas churn through the fisheries off Scandinavia, headed to markets in Europe and North America.请问老师这里off是怎么理解的呢？翻...
...about bears to read. And some adventures were loud - as when he discovered the trumpet.上面两个句子如果没有破折号和as，改写后的句子比较好理解：Some adventures were quiet when he found a lovely book about bears to read. And some adventures were loud when he discovered the t...
The study compared data from 1985 to 2004 and found which the mean number of people with whom Americans can discuss matters important to them dropped by nearly one-third.with whom …to them 做什么成分?
...th intended parents—the
people who want a child but are unable to carry onethemselves—and to
the surrogates. 依旧摘自《经济学人》。两个 it 均指加州。我觉得第二个 to 应该去掉，否则 both...and 连接的内容不对等。我这样理解对么？谢谢各位老师...
...e fast-slowing productivity rates in most industrial countries a sign
that the age of peak growth——the 30 glorious years of postwar France——is over for us，soon for China
too，asthe
mega-manufacturer of iPad etc.，Foxconn，shifts output towards cheaper India?1.这段话我是这样理...
Across the
320 submissions, a pattern of categories the researchers call a “nature
language” began to emerge. After the coding of all submissions, half a dozen
categories were noted most often as important to visitors. These include
encountering wildlife, walking along the edge of water, and fol...
...或建筑物，用于在受控条件下种植和展示植物。如：Keep
the young plants in the greenhouse until spring. 春天来临前不要把这些嫩苗移到温室外。Our
greenhouse was wrecked in last night’s storm. 我们的暖房在昨晚的暴风雨中被毁环了。My
small greenhou...
No one noticed him leave the house.No one noticed him leaving the house.第一句比较好理解。不带to的不定式作宾补，表示没人注意到他离开了。但是第二句是正确的吗？因为leave是瞬间动词，所以不会表示正在进行，而是就像瞬间动词表示将来...
...xt month it will be our annual school open day.We have invited David to be oneof our guest speakers.He will make a speech about his experiences in China.The speech is going to be at 3 p.m.on 9 November.At the end of his speech,there will be 30 minutes for questions and answers.So,if you are interes...
much as computers can learn to play Go and develop strategies that might not occur to humans, they can also suggest combinations of tax and spending that maximise economic performance，and which bureaucrats might not have dreamed up.正如计算机可以学会下围棋并发展出人类可能想不...
As long ago asthe fourteenth century, an Englishman made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums
of money than have
their life work destroyed by gangsters. 请问老师，would rather do than do 这个结构是不是使用的时候，不用考虑时态，不论是过去（...
...don't have place to live like real Mongolians.And we will like vanish. The nation will vanish."这个like是副词吗？表示可能的意思？但是我在朗文字典中并没有查到类似用法ADVspoken 【口】1. used in speech to fill a pause while you are thinking what to say ...