I
felt my cheeks grow red with sudden anger. It was impossible to make him
understand that one might be outraged by his callous selfishness. I longed to
pierce his armour of complete indifference. I knew also that in the end there
was truth in what he said. Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the po...
... are quite impressive, there really is very little archaeological evidence to support it.Writing in 1982, Martin himself admitted the paucity of evidence;for example, at that point, the remains of only 38 individual mammoths had been found at Clovis sites. In the years since, few additiona...
来自《摩登家庭》：We like to think we're so smart and we have all the answers, and we want to pass all that on to out children. But, if you scratch beneath the surface, you don't have to dig very deep to find the kid you were, which is why it's kind of crazy that now we're r...
Closed to outsiders for five decades, Burma, also known as Myanmar, is something of an unknown quantity, particularly in terms of its natural riches.请问：句中的 is something of 是什么意思？
...of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mails to bombard people with multitudes of messages.解析中给出的是the sending of messages via television，radio和very shortly, electronic mails to bombard people with multitudes of messages是enable的两个并列的...
When I told him that I meant to live in Paris for a while, and had
taken an apartment, he reproached me bitterly for not having let him know. He
would have found me an apartment himself, and lent me furniture -- did I really
mean that I had gone to the expense of buying it? -- and he would have help...
...to eat grass roots. 这些动物喜欢吃草根。（名词作宾语）2. Go down to the
grass roots and study the problems there. 到基层去研究问题。（名词作宾语）句1，是 grass
roots 的基本义“草根”。句2，是 grass
roots 的比喻义“基层”。无论基本义...
...ation within the scribal class, with a virtual army of lower-ranking tabulators performing the monotonous job of tallying commodities. We can only speculate as to how high or low the inventors of true numerals were in the scribal hierarchy, but it stands to reason that this laborsaving innovation wo...
...awing, the
flower can hardly survive when encountering bad weather. The cartoonist aimed
to remind us of the phenomenon that parents excessively spoiling their children
may cause the latter weakness and helplessness.Many factors can contribute to this phenomenon, but three stand
out. Firstly, with t...
...2002年英语专业四级考试阅读中的句子。Few of us are
content to accept ourselves as we are, and few are brave enough to ignore the
trends of fashion.1. 对于be content to do 和be brave to do 这种结构如何分析好？是be content算作系表结构，后面to do不定式算状语...
... trends and with them the dangers of everyday
civilization. Among the signatories of the warning was Bob Johnson, the
originator of the “ecological footprint” concept, which measures the total
amount of environmental input needed
to maintain a given lifestyle. With the current footprint of human...
... 25 years. Over the last few
years, students have become much less willing to argue with one another in
class. They don’t want to be viciously judged. It’s not even that they are
consciously afraid of being canceled. It’s simply that the norm of
non-argumentativeness in public has settled over...
Individuals vary in their eagerness to participate in this way, and also the balance between the immediate excitement of joining in and the opportunity to reflect on what the experience amounts to can be difficult to achieve. （我的翻译）每个人对以这种方式参与的渴望程度各...