...做到一道有关虚拟语气的题目，答案是B，有些疑惑：Had the government offered the help, we couldn’t have couldn’t have
suffered a loss.A. ought not to have suffered B. couldn’t have suffered C. shouldn’t
suffer D. couldn’t suffer字典上ought to有这样一个解释：u...
As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more
old people to care for.问：此句中 to care for为不定式作old people的后置定语成动宾关系，为什么不用不定式的被动语态：to be cared for?
In the first book I have wandered so much from my own adventures to tell of the experiences of my brother that all through the last two chapters I and the curate have been lurking in the empty house at Halliford whither we fled to escape the Black Smoke.如何理解这里的wander是接宾语so ...
...f D. by yourself这道题为什么只能选B, 而不能选A呢？ Look,
The dog is washing the face itself in the sun.这句中的itself是什么意思呢？可否用for itself替换呢？ 牛津词典上说oneself:
used to emphasize one （用以强调one）亲自，自己例句：One likes
to ...
He had already sent one message tothe police about Selden,and (He had already sent )another to his boy to stop him (from) taking food tothe hut.老师，这句话能看作是并列句的省略，省略了He had already sent ；from是否省略了？
...以表示“使某人认识到……”
例如“People should wake up tothe fact that people with disabilities have got a vote as well”和“I wish I could wake her up tothe danger she is in”
这俩句中的“wake up to”一个意为“自己认识到”另一个则是“使别人认识...
"As long as I thought he'd run away with some woman I thought there was a chance. I don't believe that sort of thing ever answers. He'd have got sick to death of her in three months. But if he hasn't gone because he's in love, then it's finished.""Oh, I think that's awfully subtle," said the Colonel...
...eased to meet you (= used to greet someone politely when you have just met them for the first time) 认识你很高兴“This is my niece, Sarah.” “Pleased to meet you.” “这是萨拉，我的外甥女。”“很高兴认识你。”(it was) nice meeting you (=used to say goodbye polit...
Even shorter times away from work for working
fathers are already difficult.疑问：这里的shorter times away from work是翻译成更短的离职时间还是翻译成缩短离职时间？以下为此句的上下文： The endless debate about “work-life balance” often contains a hopefu...
The White House seeks to avoid a double-whammy, that is, the scenario
in which Obama fails to complete the TPP in Asia or the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership in Europe, or both.
Since this would effectively undermine Obama's legacy, the US
administration is pushing aggressively both d...
Anthropology was by definition impossible, as long as these
distinctions between ourselves and the primitive, ourselves and the barbarian,
ourselves and the pagan, held sway over people's minds. It was necessary first
to arrive at that degree of sophistication where we no longer set our own
belief a...
But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting "the Rachel&quo...