有篇阅读：Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as“all too human”, with the underlying assumption that...
Nobody has promised that any of you will be released yet.上句中的yet在牛津词典中a) used in negative sentences and questions to talk about sth that has not happened but that you expect to happen （用于否定句和疑问句，谈论尚未发生但可能发生的事）b (used in negative s...
If you see the phrase as dead as a doornail,you don't need to know what
a doornail is，simply that the whole phrase means"totally dead",这个句子中逗号后simply that the
whole phrase means"totally dead应该是一个完整的句子，为什么能用逗号连接，还是这是一个从句？
...vigorously opposed , perhaps most notoriously in
education , where charter schools , academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out
battles.问题：请教老师，perhaps most notoriously这个副词词组在整句话中，作状语吗？如果是，这种好像类似补充的，归类为何种状语...
最近新学了一个句子：
Could you tell me where there's a good place to eat？
感觉句型很奇怪，不应该是 Could you tell me where a good place to eat is 吗？
且这里 a good place to eat，eat 后为什么不加 in 呢？比如 a restaurant to eat in 等。
另外...
... exercises involve putting the body into difficult positions. Some of them are very hard to learn. Have you ever tried to fold your legs over one another? This is one of the basic Yoga positions. It is called the lotus position.involve putting如果翻译为“需要身体摆出困难的姿势”，...
By the time youarrived, I_______, so you don't disturb me.
A: will have slept
B: will have been sleeping
C: will be sleeping
D: will sleep
答案是C，why？ A，B为何不可？
...example, The dogs'd eat the bones, and The dogs'd eaten the bones, are so close in sound, yet so far apart in meaning, thatyou need to make a special point of recognizing the difference by listening for content.上句是美国人写的语音书中的一段话，显然，"... are so clos...
...gning from the job of chairman right now. I can’t stand it any day.W: Do you really mean you want to quit?M: Well, may be. I will give it a second thought.（牛津上，thought作“考虑”时为不可数名词，此处a的用法）Q: What is the man going to do? A. To resign right away.B....
...rase not at all is sometimes used as a
polite response when someone thanks you. (《韦氏高阶英汉双解词典》p.54)
not at all这个短语有时候用作某人感谢你时有礼貌的应答方式。“Thank you for all your trouble.”“Not at all.”“谢谢，让你费心了。”“不...
What are we to do, then, when confronted with situations like a
disagreement with a spouse or negotiating a contract at work, that require us
to take a personal stake? 想请问各位老师，最后that引导的从句，是非限制性定语从句？但是不是不能用that？，还是我判断错...
...mad.他因失去财产而发疯。The want of his family had kept him from
school, and he had to work as a casual labourer.他因家庭贫困而无法上学，只好去打零工。The publisher’s rejection of his manuscript
depressed him.出版商拒绝了他的手稿，他很沮丧。The 1960s wi...