“ I'd rather England became the 51st state of the U.S.A. than get tied up to there,” said a retired civil servant with a complexion the color of ruby port. “ 我宁愿英格兰成为美国的第51个洲，也不要跟法国连在一起，” 一位退休的公务员如是说，...
...series of industrial experiments at a large telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lighting affects workers' productivity. Instead, the studies ended up giving their name to the "Hawthorne effect", the extremely influential idea that...
老师说下面句子中的for the simple reason that不能换成for the simple reason why：
She didn’t answer for the simple reason that she couldn’t think of anything to say.
但记得在一本语法书上看到过：在reason 后可以用why引导定语从句，也可用that...
A lot of older adults recognize that they don't sleep the same as they did when they were 18, but they can still function and they're OK. 这里的the same是sleep的宾语吗？the same指代的是睡眠的状况？as they did是引导比较状语从句相当于as they slept?
The next train to arrive at platform 4 will be the 10.50 to Liverpool.我觉得常见的应该是:The next train to arrive at platform 4 will get to Liverpool at 10.50.谢谢!
...久被遗忘的名词，开始重回公众视野。Chinese are calling for the resurrection of the long forgotten home leave, after a draft law urges people to visit their aging parents more frequently. 请问"Chinese"在文中是表达“中国人”的意思吗？是不是省略了...
Fran Bagenal, an
astrophysics and planetary science professor at the University of Colorado at
Boulder and a member of the Voyager program's plasma science team, said in an
email that at the time of the flyby, the team was "knocked over by the
weirdness of a magnetic field" so tilted from the planet...
...物应是前面已提到过的，且在介词 by 之后通常用定冠词 the 而不用物主代词。如： She held the child by the hand. 她抓住小孩的手。 He grabbed the knife by the blade. 他抓住刀刃。 He led the ox by thenose. 他牵着牛的鼻子走。 (2) ...
Mr Trump’s frequent onslaughts — the Europeans are not paying a fair share, Germany is in thrall to Moscow and what’s-the-point of the alliance anyway — have raised questions about Nato’s future.请问老师，what’s-the-point 中连字符有什么作用？
Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian colonialism, many of
the leaders of independence shared the ideals of representative government,
careers open to talent, freedom of commerce and trade,the right to private
property, and a belief in the individual as the basis of society.这句话中...
So they move out. Some don’t go very far, just a little way out of the city, to the towns near the cities,
other people move to the real countryside with sheep and cows and green fields!
There, they start new lives and try to make new friends.上面这段英文中第二句话【some don't go very ...