But in 1998, a book of prayers from the Middle Ages sold in an art auction for a lot of money, more money than anyone would pay for a damaged book from the 12th century. Beautiful or not, why? It had been discovered that the book was a palimpsest, and beneath the surface writing on the manual script...
...o before struggling to sort through the likes, dislikes, quirks and wishes of the people on your holiday lists, you may want to consider some recent findings about which gift-giving strategies work. 第二句:For the past 15 years or so, the received wisdom in behavioral economics has been th...
I want to get inspiration about how does the world in future look like or how will people in the future behave.正常语序为什么不是 I want to get inspiration about how the world in future looks like or how people in the future will behave?
... with their dirt,
the Equinox Resort & Spa in Manchester Village, Vt., offers an off-road
driving course in one of its eight Land Rovers or Hummers H2s. 请问这里面的in是做方式状语吗就是翻译成“.....,(通过驾驶它的8台越野路虎和悍马H2)提供了一个越野驾...
...Nichols. He came in one morning
when I was having breakfast on the terrace of the hotel and introduced himself.
He had heard that I was interested in Charles Strickland, and announced that he
was come to have a talk about him. They are as fond of gossip in Tahiti as in
an English village, and one or...
... the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in
1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally. The steam-powered printing
press was still in its early stages;the literacy rate in England
was under 50%. Many works of fiction appeared without the names of the authors,
often with something like “By a l...
They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, orincompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck.老师好,judges with hearts of stone and balls to match中的and balls to match……怎么理解?
Occasion carries the basic denotation characteristic of its leading senses—a definite moment or juncture,but it applies only to a moment that provides an opportunity or that calls foror prompts action of a definite kind or nature.
...him feel like
an insect playing at being human.(摘自Longman
Dictionary of Contemporary English之
Corpus)163.postpone(P1992)作“to
change the date or time of a planned event or action to a later one 使【事件、行动等】延期,延迟,推迟”解时,构成“postpone doing
so...
请看句子:A recent survey shows more than one in three respondents report IoT
solutions that deal with public safety, healthcare, and transportation in place
or underway in their cities.请教老师: show后面是宾语从句,在宾语从句中respondents主语,report谓语,IoT solution...
....5. What are the
speakers talking about?A. How to fry fish.B. How to make coffee.C. How to remove a bad smell. 第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白,每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳...
... Badger, not knowing what the future held in store, or how
much water, and of how turbid a character, was to run under bridges before Toad
should sit at ease againin his ancestral Hall.这句话摘自《柳林风声》,原文翻译:獾说是这样说,但他并不能预测未来会发生什么...
....5. What are the
speakers talking about?A. How to fry fish.B. How to make coffee.C. How to remove a bad smell. 第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分)听下面5段对话或独白,每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳...