...
My life as a tax-paying employed person began in
middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.
My best friend Betsy’s father was a manager at Hough
Bakeries, which, at Easter time, ___41___ little bunny (兔子)
cakes for all its ___42___ throughout Cleveland. It happ...
...解七选五 My husband and I just spent a week in Paris. ___36___ Sothefirst thing we did was rent a fantastically expensive sixth-floor apartment the
size of a cupboard. It was so tiny that we had to leave our suitcases inthe
hallway.The place wasn’t entirely authentic, though. Unlike
a norm...
The output of the paper mill is now threetimes as high as it was in 1966.很显然，threetimes 是“三倍”的意思。但我的语法书上的中文翻译是：这家纸厂的生产比1966年增加两倍。“两倍”？老师，这里是书上印错了？还是的确是翻译两倍啊？？...
...being useful, and that it amply repaid her
for the little sacrifice of her time. This was very amiable, but Charlotte's
kindness extended farther than Elizabeth had any conception of; -- its object
was nothing less than to secure her from any return of Mr. Collins's addresses,
by engaging them towar...
... are apt to look
for mechanical explanations of everything, yet it is only three hundred years
since machines had been developed so far that Descartes first suggested that
animal and human bodies were machines.以上文句来自丁往道《当代英文散文选读上》第一篇，想请问各位老...
...stay here,' I said. 'You see. I've forgotten my key.' 'Your what?' he called. 'My key,' I shouted. Fortunately, the shouting woke up my wife who opened the window just as the policeman had started to climb towards me. 【...
...should think he earned ten thousand a year, and his knighthood was
but thefirst of the honours which must inevitably fall to his lot.这一句I
remarked laughingly on the change in his present circumstances from those when
we had both been medical students中from those 理解困惑：上面提问...
... down the stairs quietly to the kitchen. They
decided to boil the porridge first. They put some rice into a pot of water and
left it to boil while they made the French toast. Jeff broke two eggs into a
plate and added insome milk. Jenna found the bread and put two slices into the
egg mixture. Next,...
After a three-year pilot period, the
GPNP will be officially set up next year.这是2022年新高考全国卷1语法填空中的一个句子。我对句中的 pilot
period 不理解，在网上查了一下：pilot
period 的意思是“试行期间”。但查词典
pilot 的意思是“飞行员”...
Thenyour brain hurls you to the ground inthe direction of your hurt ear.It thinks you are falling inthe other direction, anyone feeling nauseated yet.翻看了词典，没搞明白上面句末的副词yet究竟何意？
...己Taking responsibility for
mistakes is a positive step, but don’t beat yourself up about them. To err (犯错) is human. It’s just as
important to show yourself some forgiveness. Youcan use the following
writing exercise to help you do this.翻译：为错误承担责任是积极的一步，...
...示理论上的可能性？One
could have expected that it would be about then that the phrase would be coined我的思考是，首先句中could
have done应该不是情态动词could的非推测用法中表示假设意义的用法，因为我并未在上下文中读出与过去事态相反的假...
...stroom which, he said, was
rarely used. He told me to unpack my things and then come down to dinner. After
I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two empty drawers, I decided to
hang one of the tow suits I had brought with me inthe cupboard. I opened the
cupboard door and then stood in front o...
...s situation it isn't nearly as bad as people who try and put themselves inyour position think it is.For
one thing, other people come to it
cold, whereas I've been doing my homework on it for the last two years. I've
got used to the idea and have come to the point of acceptance gradually. The
other ...