Ever since humans have lived on the earth, they have made use of various forms of communication. Generally, this expression of thoughts and feelings has been in the form of oral speech. When there is a language barrier, communication is accomplished through sign language in which motions stand ...
One of his favourite pastimes was doing nothing. His idea of an energetic afternoon when the sun was shining was to sit under a tree, with a pretty girl by his side, and all the time in the world to talk of this and that, to count the blades of grass.All the time in the world是做状语还是前面...
Covering much of the earth's surface is a blanket of water.上句中, is 是系动词吗？这是倒装句吗？上句可以倒过来说，即 A blanket of water is covering much of the earth's surface 吗？修改后的句中is covering还是系动词吗？
1. an area twice the size of
Wales
这是我在牛津高阶词典上看到的一个名词词组，twice the size of Wales直接作了后置定语，可以这么用吗？道理是什么？能否举出一些类似的例句？
2. Dog's sense of smell is
up to 100,000 times greater than human being's....
"Edward George, that you did upon the 14th day of March,1925, cause the death of Louisa."Emily Brent, that upon the 5th of November,1931, you were responsible for the death of Taylor."William Henry, that you brought about the death of James on October 10th, 1928.第一个句子里，...
..., with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it all too monkey, as well.请教老师...
...ness is, we know not; and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story, or as any other ultimate fact of nature.网易的翻...
...y daughter would aspire to a career.5. Not only has he taken on the burden of caring for his very strong-willed mother when no one would expect it of him.6. Even if she asked, I still wouldn’t help her.Q1:请问句1中的would是表示一种possibility么，类似be likely to，因为说话人也...
...ill a little while ago,
when I was dining with another old friend in the profession, Alec Carmichael,
who was in England on short leave. I ran across him in the street and
congratulated him on the knighthood with which his eminent services during the
war had been rewarded. We arranged to spend an ev...
请教老师：On they struggled, fighting, dying, marking every step of the route with their dead. 这个句子的主谓宾等语法结构分别是什么？关联的语法点叫什么？上下文：It was but a small body of survivors that at length escaped from that deadly defile and threw up entr...
...语法新思维·高级教程》中有这样一个例句：The exact time of dying was not of great importance until recently. 直到最近，死亡的确切时间才变得尤其重要。我觉得be of great importance应该是表延续的，而不是表短暂动作的。而且如果把"I won't le...
...ome ingenuity, and I dare say it would succeed, if Miss de Bourgh were out of
the way. But, my dearest Jane, you cannot seriously imagine that because Miss
Bingley tells you her brother greatly admires Miss Darcy, he is in the smallest
degree less sensible of your merit than when he took leave of yo...
...笔记有没有问题？ a. Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation
developing more and more regional competition, as population growth in the
Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.（1998年考研阅读真题第四篇）1980年的人口普查显示，东北部和中西...
He told me with grim humour of the time he had spent acting as guide to Cockneys who wanted to see the night side of life in Paris; it was an occupation that appealed to his sardonic temper and somehow or other he had acquired a wide acquaintance with the more disreputable quarters of the city. He t...