Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent---and all the attendant need for phsical and financial assistance---have jumped eightfold in just one generation.这个句子中as the odds of having a weak elderly parent是什么意思？odd...
There has been much talk about the new information age. But thenotion that the Internet may be responsible for the fragmentation of society has been much less widely reported.请教老师，第二句话中的has been ...reported 是主系表结构还是被动语态？谢谢！
...的零星信息a bit of cake 一小块饼With a bit of luck, we'll be there by 12. 如果顺利点，我们将于12点钟赶到那里。同页对bit的解释中的第三条义项（LARGE AMOUNT大量）这样解释：5 [sing.] a～(of sth) (informal,especially BrE) a large amount 大量：'H...
The human nose is underrated tool.Humans areoften thought to be insensitive smellers compared with animals, but this is largely because, unlike animals, we stand upright.This means that our noses are linited to perceiving those smells which float through the air, missing the majority of smells whic...
...rt ofthe ideal. 这个协定远不完美。
The hotel fell far short oftheir expectations. 旅馆远没有他们预期的那么好。
这个 far 好像是修饰形容词 short 的，当然这个 fall short of 好像是个固定搭配，如果不是这个固定搭配呢，far 可以修饰 short...
Still, there is a lot of work to be done in thearea of transplanting the printed cells. 老师，这里的to be done, 为什么不可以是to do的形式，我的理解是work后面省略了for us ？请老师帮忙看看问题在哪里？
Talk about being surrounded! There have also been claims that just being exposed to electromagnetic fields can cause symptoms of anxiety, depression, nausea and suicidal thoughts.So, imagine what would happen if you could see them. If you could see these signals, you probably be looking fo...
...p://ask.yygrammar.com/q-25786.html原文1:所有由否定词缀un-，in-，non-，-less等构成的派生词。 所有由含有否定词缀构成的否定都是短语否定，而不是分句否定。我的理解1:那么 We were friends in no time.这句为什么是“短语否定”? 是因为 含...
...liest observatory known in
China.The most exciting part ofthe observatory are 13 rammed-earth
columns arranged in a semicircular shape, Gao said.本句话的主语究竟是part还是columns?若主语是part,那么这里的主谓一致关系与表语一致了（好像语法书上见过）？若主...
... since the early 1980s when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers' misfortunes. “or so the thinking has gone”是为了表强调，so的前置；还是直接把or so翻译成大约？平常我们看到的so的倒装句都是so+adj这种类型比如：“So obvious is ...
原句是Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent ofthe family tree or the pathway tracked through it. Whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.请问这个the pathway tracked thro...
请教一下曹老师，Decreasing in the depth of caries lesion
was notified by polarized-light micrographs as applying either
nano-hydroxyapatite toothpaste or nano-hydroxyapatite gel as greater than
fluoride varnish, with no reduction in the depth for untreated group.如何理解句中as applying...
I can look forward to no better happiness than that which would be one
with yours.译文为：我的前途没有比跟您生活在一起更幸福的了。以上是从英文小说米德尔马契一书的第五章中，主人公多萝西娅.布鲁克小姐在婚前回复其未婚夫卡苏朋先生所...
...I frequented it, and if thenovels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is now changed. The venue is different. Chelsea and Bloomsbury have taken the place of Hampstead, Notting Hill Gate, and High Street, Kensington. Then it was a distinction to be under forty, but now to...