The
story is one of scores in To Forgive Design:Understanding Failure,
a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean to its
breakdowns. Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about
disasters. In this book he includes the loss of the space shuttles Challenger
and Colu...
It is obviuos how the capacity to visualize objects and to finger out numerical patterns suits one to answer question that have eluded some of best poets and phliosophers请问: to answer question, 做什么成分。one 又是指代什么。谢谢老师!
They belonged to a family by the name of Northup, one of whom, removing to the State of New-York, settled at Hoosic, in Rensselaer county. whom和removing不懂用法。
But I realized it had been more than two years since I had read most of those titles. I had stopped reading gradually, the way one heals or dies.请问:the way one heals or dies表达什么意思,怎样理解它与前面句子(I had stopped reading gradually)语义上的衔接。谢谢老师!
...re kilometers and has a population of more than 6 million, about one in five people lives in the countryside.我对其中的 on in five people 有点疑问。因为 people 是一个复数名词,表示“人们”,所以英语不可能说 one people。但是可以说 one in five people ...
The island may have been settled by marauding brutes, but it is now the most feminist society on the planet, and with that one tantalizing fact, Sunday's episode of "The Wonder List" was born.请问:and with that one tantalizing fact 是什么意思?