...t the fish-market. Once they each of them
earned a franc by loading trucks with innumerable boxes of oranges that had
been dumped down on the quay. One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the
boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from
Madagascar round the Cape of Good H...
..., let’s go for a
picnic somewhere this weekend.W: Good idea. Can Jack
go with us? He’s tired of taking exams these past two weeks.M: I don’t think so.
He’s going on a trip this weekend with his school. Text 4M: Hello, is this Emma?
This is Robert Gellen from Johnson’s Electronics.W: Hello,...
...would speak of this publisher and of that, comparing the generosity of one with the meanness of another; we would argue whether it was better to go to one who gave handsome royalties orto another who "pushed" a book for all it was worth. Some advertised badly and some well. Some were mode...
...the unspeakable. There is a singular fascination in watching the eagerness with which the learned author ferrets out every circumstance which may throw discredit on his hero. His heart warms to him when he can bring forward some example of cruelty or meanness, and he exults like an inquisitor at the...
When
I come to his connection with Blanche Stroeve I am exasperated by the
fragmentariness of the facts at my disposal. To give my story coherence I
should describe the progress of their tragic union, but I know nothing of the
three months during which they lived together. I do not know how they got...
...ublished last December: Policymakers and the rest of us must engage openly
with the risk of global collapse. Researchers in many areas have projected the widespread
collapse as “a credible scenario (情景) this century”. A survey of
scientists found that extreme weather events, food insecurity,...
...ntinue” and is normally followed by a gerund. But it is used with an infinitive, usually of a verb like “explain, talk, tell”, when the speaker continues talking about the same topic but introduces a new aspect of it.2. 张道真《英语语法大全》在...
...y want to paint what I see.""I wonder if I could write on a desert island, with the certainty that no eyes but mine would ever see what I had written."Strickland did not speak for a long time, but his eyes shone strangely, as though he saw something that kindled his soul to ecstasy."Sometimes I've t...
...ered the
birth of his child. 他申报了孩子的出生。Must I register
with the police if I buy a gun. 倘若我买枪必须向警察登记吗？Some people register
a list of things they want or need for their new home at a local store or
stores. 有些人在当地的一家或几家商店列出...
Borders
stay open only when countries trust fellow EU members to deal with internal
problems, be they terrorism or disease. 请问这句话中的be they是不是一个固定的用法以及意思上是不是可以理解为such as
...ple: we know of just one
type of life and it’s challenging to do science with a sample size of one. The
field of artificial life—called ALife for short—is
the systematic attempt to spell out life’s fundamental principles. Many of
these practitioners, so-called ALifers,
think that somehow mak...
请问or even less是作什么成分呢？China endeavors to increase its grain production so that its self-sufficiency rate of grain under normal conditions will be above 95 percent and the net import rate 5 percent, or even less, of the total consumption quantity.
...nt
recorded their thoughts or had them chronicled by contemporaries. Faced with
this situation, many historians based their investigations on the only records
that seemed to exist: birth, marriage, and death records. 中心词是97 percent 吗？
Big cites today are confronted with very serious problems. Transport is a major difficulty: some planners believe in mass transport system;others believe in making it possible for citizens to move 【C1】______ in private cars. There are several ways of 【C2】______a public transport system. Some...