I did not see him for several days after that, but one evening, when I was sitting in the cafe, reading a paper, he came up and sat beside me."You haven't hanged yourself after all," I remarked."No. I've got a commission. I'm painting the portrait of a retired plumber for two hundred francs.""How di...
...ndergarten class in a school in Brooklyn, I realized things were no longer that simple.
My classmates ranged from those kids with pale skin and large blue eyes to
those with rich brown skin and dark hair. The food choices were almost as
diverse as the students. In front of me was an array of foods I...
...tional Zoo for 11 years. Spot
and Stripe are the first tiger cubs (幼兽) that have ever been born here. Globally, a third of Sumatran
cubs in zoos don’t make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them
round-the-clock care at home.I’ve got two children - the younger one, Kynan, was extremely
ha...
... developing a robot to monitor the
health of grazing cattle, a development that could bring big changes to a
profession that’s relied largely on a low-tech approach for decades but is
facing a labor shortage.Salah Sukkarieh, a professor at the University of Sydney,
sees robots as necessary given h...
...33 AM +0000 3/9/08, Michael Quinion wrote:The phrase "few would argue that" appeared in the last World Wide Words newsletter and was criticised by numerous subscribers as being either an error ("argue" used when "dispute" was meant) or yet another example of the dumbing...
...英语新全国卷的阅读理解题，相关段落如下：Producing
food thatno one eats wastes the water, fuel, and other resources used to grow
it. That makes food waste an environmental problem. In fact, Royte writes, “if food waste were a country, it would
be the third largest producer of g...
...。Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of
number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,
thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in
anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such
nonsense.Mr. Dursley was the director
of...
Miss Waterford certainly felt that she could not do her subject justice on the curb of Jermyn Street, and so, like an artist, flung the bare fact at me and declared that she knew no details. I could not do her the injustice of supposing that so trifling a circumstance would have prevented her from ...
能不能说 in hope of…/that…和in the hopes of…/that…
■倪肖丁（西安） 葛传槼先生的《英语惯用法词典》指出：in the hope
of …ing和 in hopes of…ing意思相同，in the hope
that…与in hopes that…意思相同。注意用了the便用单数形式hope，不...
... country. The plan will extend protection to a significant number of areas that ___58___ (be) previously unprotected, bringing many of the existing protected areas for giant pandas under one authority to ___59___ (increase) effectiveness and reduce inconsistencies in management.After a three-year pi...
...y, it didn’t prepare her for what it would be like.In addition to a fear that her daughter Alice would be treated unfairly, Davey had concerns about how her family would handle things and even her own expectations for Alice. “When you have children with Down syndrome, it becomes about them havin...