...e. Sometimes one can wait thirty minutes for a taxi. So I’m happy to get this close.M: Thirty minutes! I’ve been riding around all day looking for passengers.
...mans that he’s never had,” Reeves says of Caesar. “And yet there’s this other part of us that knows that, for the lack of a better word, because it’s really about empathy, there is a humanity to Caesar that is just inescapable. And so the girl represents a part of himself that he has to pu...
The New York Times reports that this year's fire season hasn't been as bad as it has been for the previous two years, butthat's little comfort to those witnessing the flames flare up.上句flare up是否是witness的宾语补足语？即witness sb do sth这种结构呢？He witnessed two...
...lity of life is much more important
than efficiency (效率). You can tell this by café life. French cafés are always
crowded. Not all the customers are tourists. When do these people work? The
French take their 35-hour workweek seriously—so seriously that some labor
unions recently struck a dea...
...依然是限定词？另外，They have decided to build a new hospital in this area, whatever
difficulties they might have.这句话中whatever怎么也成了限定词了，为什么它后面跟着的是difficulties这个名词？
...ed field of study in order to compete with their fellows. With this high degree of specialization the frontiers of knowledge are steadily being pushed back more rapidly than ever before. But this has not been achieved without considerable cost. The scientist who outside his o...
...he spilled milk? 请你把洒出来的奶擦干净好吗？Please clean up this mess right now. 请马上把这堆乱七八糟的东西清理干净。Mama made him clean up the plate. 妈妈要他把盘子洗干净。2. 不及物用法These
painters always clean up when they’ve finished. 这几位...
...你若愿等一下，那我就去看看他是否有空。If you would come this way, I’ll take you to
the manager’s office. 请你从这边走，我带你去经理办公室。注意，不要误认为以上各句中的will为助动词，用于构成将来时态，因为根据英语语法，条件...
Now, then, I ask you this; could I expect--could I believe -could I even remotely imagine--that, feeling as he did, he would do so ungrateful a thing as to add those quite unnecessary fifteen words to his test?--set a trap for me?--expose me as a slanderer of my own town before my own people assembl...
...物+介词+（作用于同一个）名词？
2.And one more question in this section. What is the reason for you
coming into town today?原文是动名词做介宾
在问一个已经进城的女孩，请问能写成What is the reason for you to come into town
today吗，即用to come into town做r...
...)，然而我认为这并不妥当，比如这句 The unemployment rate in this district has fallen from 6% to 5% in the past two years. 就不能看作是种经历而是从过去持续到现在。还有的教材为体现两者的不同会把现在完成进行时的概念调整为“表示动作从...
...food waste goes against the moral grain,” as Elizabeth Royte writes in this month’s cover story. It’s jaw-dropping how much perfectly good food is thrown away—from “ugly” (but quite eatable) vegetables rejected by grocers to large amounts of uneaten dishes thrown into restaurant garbage ...