...ry gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote, “that I am tempted to define ‘journalism’ as ‘a term of contempt applied by writers whoare not read to writers whoare’”.在上述句子中，So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their o...
Gradually Rudolf drew forth the sparse data of the old man's life: He
had been born in this very lighthouse eighty-three years before, when his
father was the lighthouse keeper. His mother — the only woman he had ever known
— had taught him to read the Bible,
and he read it daily. He had no othe...
I
don't know a single person who would say that they didn't enjoy receiving a
letter through the post.第三段一开始，出现了上面的句子，根据上下文语境，这里的who would say that they didn't enjoy
receiving a letter through the post.是虚拟语气，还是陈述语气？为...
...passing tanker rescued them five days later, both men were genuinely sorry
that they had to leave.老师：这是新概念3-12课。1）lobster 可数，为什么这里不加s呢？2）如何理解这里的as one of
them put it - 是插入语吗？尤其是as用法和it指代什么？3）both men ...
I
have said already that but for the hazard of a journey to Tahiti I should
doubtless never have written this book. It is thither that after many
wanderings Charles Strickland came, and it is there that he painted the
pictures on which his fame most securely rests. I suppose no artist achieves
compl...
... a survey. Of those Australians who still have a landline, a
third concede that it’s not really necessary and they’re keeping it as a
security blanket—19 percent say they never use it while a further 13 percent
keep it in case of emergencies. I think my home falls into that category.More than ...
... I should have made a show of the indignation I really felt, and I am sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit at the same table with a man of such character. But the fear of not being able to carry it through effectively...
... orders for the withdrawal of separate lots of grain by owners
whose crops had been deposited there for safety and convenience, or which had
been compulsorily deposited to the credit of the king, soon became used us a more general method of payment of debts to other
people, including tax gatherers, ...
...do. 他们周日都没早起，因为他们无事可做。●Somebody said that he
had seen this kind of tree somewhere in
the countryside.
有人说他在乡下某处见过这种树。●When my husband has a stomachache, he
sometimes goes to another hospital by underground. 当我丈夫胃痛的...
...her husband Jim, 24, the couple
opened a credit card together. "We thought that was the sort of thing
married people should do."she says,"We learned pretty quickly that we
both had very different approaches to money."二十年前，当Wendy23岁时，嫁给了她24岁的丈夫jim，这对夫妻一...
She felt suitably humble just as she had when he had first taken a good look at her, hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed.1) as she had 中的had不懂，完整句子是什么呢？2) hair waved and golden, nails red and pointed 如何分析成分呢？
...nd face a force so powerful it could erase half the planet, you would know that you’re about to have the exact same impact.1.这里分不清了：so powerful it could erase half the planet是省略了that的结果状语从句还是形容词的补足语？这个句子中它们是同一个东西吗...