...us life, then terraforming should be a nonissue; it simply should not be done.试译：如果火星是任何本土生命的家园，那么火星环境的的地球化改造应该不是问题。这一改造活动完全不应该加以实施。问题求助：第二句话terraforming should be a noniss...
...sposable-meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t
advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.
这里的 see clothes as disposable，其中的as和disposable分别是什么词性？以及see...as中的as是什么词性？
...t the hall before the concert had started.2. He came in before I had done half the work. 请教老师，我们都知道发生在 “过去的过去” 的动作用过去完成时态，可是句中介词before前的动作先发生用过去时态；before后的动作后发生，且用过...
...s. I had a couple of suitcases full of my dispatches, broadcasts and notes thatI wanted to take out of the country, I said. As I was flying off early the next day, there would be no time for Gestapo officials at the airfield to go over the contents. Could they take a look now, if I brought them ove...
...m! Upon my honour I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life, as Ihave this evening; and there are several of them, you see, uncommonly pretty.关于uncommonly pretty都是副词吗？如果把pretty理解为形容词，牛津词典查了，也不可以做后置定语。
(1)It was none other than Mary.(2)Somebody suggests staring at once andI strongly object to it.请问各位老师第一句的it是指什么? 如果指人的话,为什么用it而不是she?第二个句的it是指"staring at once" 还是指"Somebody suggests.."这件事? 而...
If she really cared about me, she would have called by now. 她要是真的关心我的话，现在应该已经打电话给我了。这是一个虚拟语气的句子吧？为什么主句用了 would havedone，而从句没有用过去完成时呢？虚拟语气句子的时态可以前后不一致...
Ever since Shakespeare wrote the sonnet They ThatHave Power to Hurt,
people thought they knew what it meant. But in1985 a young British critic named
William Empson told them they did not. The sonnet, he announced, contains 4,096
possible meanings. He then presented some of them by showing the sonne...
... had, for the more I read the more I realized it had always been thus, andthat apparently an essential part of studying literature, whether in 1840, 1930, or 1975, was to conclude that there had once been a golden age, thatit was gone.此处的be to的理解？Q3:The silence about this was odd, bo...
...ollector who advised me to get off two stops before
Vienna Central Station and take a taxi.这边的定语从句中的谓语动词为什么不能用had advised，我的理解是，advise这个动作在explained之前发生。对比上一句：Not one of us had brought an
umbrella，or even a raincoa...