Disregarding the Rat, he proceeded to play upon the inexperienced Mole
as on a harp.
这句话摘自《柳林风声》，句中的as on a harp是个比较分句吧，省略了主语he和谓语动词play。可这里为啥要用harp，harp不是风琴的意思吗？还请专家老师帮忙解答。
a contributing factor to system misuse.1.contributing是现在分词吗？2.如果是的话这句话岂不是等于a factor contributing to system misuse，这里将contributing作为前置定语，然后用介词短语to system misuse来隔空修饰前面的形容词有这种用法吗3.还是说这...
...学习要点】1.用法及例句(1) [U,C]责任，职责，义务：The
matter is outside my area of responsibility. 此事超出我的责任范围。I
haven’t as much responsibility as before. 我不再担负过去那样多的责任了。She
wants a job that gives her more responsibility. 她想...
1、______, we will have a picnic tomorrow.A. Weather permitting B. With weather permitting疑问：这题为什么选A不选B呢，with不可以引导条件状语吗？（我知道可以从条件状语从句If weather permits转换为Weather permitting，但我不明白B为什么不对）2、B...
She hesitated a minute."If he's in any real want I'm prepared to help him a little. I'd send you a certain sum of money, and you could give it him gradually, as he needed it.""That's very good of you," I said.But I knew it was not kindness that prompted the offer. It is not true that suffering ennob...
Original text from WS Journal: North Korea reported its first death from a Covid-19 outbreak that it said for the first time had rapidly spread throughout the country.我的理解：it = North Koreathat had rapidly spread throughout the country 是定语从句，修饰前面的 a Covid-19 outbreakit...
She knew no more shorthand than if she had been a graduate in stenography just let slip upon the world by a business college.(节选欧亨利小时《springtime a la carte》(A) 她并不太精通速记，就像是刚刚走出商学院速记专业的毕业学生，来闯荡世界。(B) 她的速记...
These
were not traits which I could imagine in Strickland. Love is absorbing; it
takes the lover out of himself; the most clear-sighted, though he may know,
cannot realise that his love will cease; it gives body to what he knows is
illusion, and, knowing it is nothing else, he loves it better than r...
A:
What do you have to say ( ) ?B:
Nothing.A.
yourself B. for yourself C. from yourself D. by yourself这道题为什么只能选B, 而不能选A呢？ Look,
The dog is washing the face itself in the sun.这句中的itself是什么意思呢？可否用for itself替换呢？ 牛津词典...
The
story is one of scores in To Forgive Design:Understanding Failure,
a book that is at once a love letter to engineering and a paean to its
breakdowns. Its author, Dr. Henry Petroski, has long been writing about
disasters. In this book he includes the loss of the space shuttles Challenger
and Colu...