His
visit, however, ended up involving a lot more than that. Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia,
which talks about a road trip of road trip from Tashkent to Karakalpakstan,
where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying up of the sea.
It...
...at all,’ I answered. ‘I’m going to …’‘Would you mind my coming withyou?’he asked, before I had finished speaking.没等我说完他就问道。不太理解的地方在于,一是before后面的内容应该是后发生的,为什么这里before后面用的是过去完成时而不是...
And this cheered him up a good deal 这句后面的a good deal是不是状语从句的简化,能不能还原成以下这句:And this cheered him up because this is a good deal 而这句It was a huge arch but the great iron gates stood wide open 应该也是简化句,open是adj ...
请问老师:1 meaning the money you make是现在分词短语做定语修饰 income 吗?2 这里的破折号相当于逗号吗?Using income—meaning the money
you make—alone as a measure of poverty doesn’t give an accurate assessment
of what it truly means to be poor.
... informed, sewing or buying fashionable hopital gowns so you are not stuck with regulation blue or gray and playing Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" so loud you neighbotrs call the police.老师这句话中的末尾playing…so loud…为什么不是playing谓语还能加so that句型...
经常在句子中看到if somewhat 这个短语,请问老师们这个短语该怎么理解呢?if在这里是做连词吗? I have been a dutiful, if
somewhat distant daughter.David is being polite if
somewhat distant. They make jokes about the Northeastern winters.The serial killer appears to ...
...句子中的最高级均为自由式:1 She is the candidate (the) most likely to be elected. 后置定语2 These were the ones that the grown-ups laughed at (the) loudest. 状语3 He is (the) least able to look after himself. 表语4 It was Jill who presented her case (the) most effectively. 状...