...虚拟主语”：剑桥出版的《当代英语语法》(English Grammar Today) 把it称为dummy subject（虚拟主语）：English
clauses which are not imperatives must have a subject. Sometimes we need to use
a “dummy” or “empty” or “artificial” subject when there is no subject atta...
We couldn't have picked a worse day for the picnic--it rained nonstop.有人认为We couldn't have picked a worse day的意思是It is the worst day we have picked.但是，我觉得应该是It was the worst day we had picked 或者It wasn't the worst day we picked.因为这是对具体过去时间...
...》电影的一句话：He doesn't understand what it is like, lying there day after day,
watching people press their ugly faces in on you.他根本不理解你的感受，整天躺在那儿，面对凑过来看你的那些丑八怪。 老师，对于这句话，我有两个问题：1. 这里的现...
...out this problem. In 2017, I founded
Jr Ocean Guardians as part of my work with the Girl Scouts. We hold presentations
at schools to teach kids about plastic waste.I
wanted to reach businesses too. I decided that if I learned of a company that used
a lot of plastic, I’d send it an email urging it ...
All schools in the capital were forced to close one day due to the dangerous levels of toxic particles in the air. 这里的close one day理解为省略for,close for one day,还是one day是副词？
Fifty-seven years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered
his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. 这个是说马丁路德金发表演讲后的57年后吗，那么这个 57 years to the
day来修饰after， to the day为什么不是from the day?
...是表示“不可能”（指没有可能性）。如：I can’t pay you today. Can you wait till
tomorrow? 今天我不能付你钱，你可以等到明天吗? It can’t be the postman at the door. It’s
only seven o’clock. 门外不可能是邮递员，才刚7点呀。(2) may not也有两个...
...the basketball team?A. Adapting himself to the intense
training.B. Dealing with the pressure from the coach.C. Regaining the skills learned in high
school.16. What does Victor say about the players
on the team?A. They are of the same age.B. They are similar in character. C. They are from different c...
...lear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read “Vietnam.” It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over.【So it is tha...
...着小雨。It rained heavily and every depression in the road was filled with muddy water. 雨下得很大，路上每个坑洼处都积满了泥浆水。但如果要表示雨下得小，可以用 rain lightly 吗？因为我看到一篇日记是这样开头的：That day it was raining lightly. I ...
...er-friendly home computers
and multimedia machines which are in common use today. Considering
how recent these developments are, it is even more remarkable that as long ago as the 1960s, an
Englishman, Leon Bagrit, was able to predict some of the uses of computers
which we know today. Bagrit d...
...en. ①From the lifeboat's stern, where I'd sat most of the twenty days of our drifting, I could keep them all covered. ②If I had to shoot at such close quarters, I wouldn't miss. They realized that. Nobody jumped at me. ③But in the way they all glared I could see how they'd come...
Shall I compare thee(you) to a summer's day?
I 是主语，shall compare 复合谓语，you宾语， 但感觉to a summer's day既不是宾补也不是双宾语，因为介词结构做宾补一般是as sth，而且a summer's day和you不是主系表关系。难道compare A to B...