Hence this book, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of
Empire in Central Asia, which talks about a road trip from Tashkent to
Karakalpakstan, where millions of lives have been destroyed by the slow drying
up of the sea.这个句子虽然很长，但好像只是一个名词性短语吧！hence后...
...s arms grows from a tiny
seedling; a nine-storied tower rises from a heap of earth; a thousand-mile
journey begins with the first step.）▲对于“千里之行，始于足下”的英译，教材上只是一个比较常见的版本，虽然网上有不少翻译版本，但翻译质量参差不齐...
"Exactly. This chance of the picture has supplied us with one of our most obvious missing links. We have him, Watson, we have him, and I dare swear that before to-morrow night he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the...
That such precisely directed helping behavior pops up in as distant a relative as the ant belies some popular notion of Darwinian evolution.这里正常语序应当为pops up in a relative as distant as the ant.这里as distant 为什么提前了？此句来自《基督教科学箴言报》
Honda reported its
profits slipped nearly 20% in the first half of the April-March fiscal year
from a year earlier, as sales suffered in China. 这句话的from a year earlier是不是同比意思？是固定用法吗？为什么可以这么翻译？
Whether you are looking to relax in the wildness and peace of nature,
or for an exciting new adventure, Nepal has a variety of choices to
offer.look to do和look for两个用法不一样的短语为什么在这里可以并列？
The idea for the board of free meals started after a donor came in with $100 for each member of its staff. After two staffers returned to their share, there was $ 700 leftover according to Tarah Morris1.for each member是后置定语还是状语？2.returned to是什么意思，文中不是想说归...
... something like this.I'd have to be crazy to get mixed up in that kind of thing.2. be/get mixed up with sb: to be involved with someone who has a bad influence on youWhen he left college he got mixed up with the wrong people.3. [not before noun] confused, for example because you have too many di...
...分/名词后置修饰语？SV + adjective + PP：She was the eldest among them.Sharpton was foremost among the protesters. Dickens was pre-eminent among English writers of his day. I felt very inferior among all those academics. SV + noun + PP：She is a pearl among women. He was a prince among...
...ort to the theory that a black hole lies at the Milky Way's centerand many of the 100 billion other galaxies estimated to exist in the universe.
a. that a black hole lies at the Milky Way's center and
b. that a black hole lies at the center of the Milky Way's and of
...process was nice,” Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay, an environmental engineer of the University of Glasgow in Scotland who was not involved in the research, tells New Scientist. “We should be looking into upgrading drinking water treatment plants so they remove microplastics.”What is Gauchotte-Lind...
... bought a new apartment, and now I can finally say goodbye to such a bad
roof as doesn't even serve to keep
the rain out.2)
“The students who learned to play a musical instrument in elementary and
continued playing in high school not only score significantly higher, but were
about one academic yea...