The grand mediocrity oftoday——everyone being the same in survival and number ofoff spring——means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper middleclass India compared to the tribe.老师，破折号内独立主格结构做什么成分呢？句意上感觉应该是对mediocri...
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like a drop of water from the point of a needle disappearing into the ocean, my days are dripping into the stream of life.其中disappearing in to the water是定语修饰water的不？
所以相当于like➕名词n.那么这个句子里like是介词？所以后面加名词？
那我想...
pass by 是及物动词短语吗？ 与 go past的用法一样吗？The train passed by us without stopping at the station. =The train went past us without stopping at the station. 这两个句子是同义句吗？
...是不是有我不知道的上下文背景: Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers around the world (就是这里)to produce a unique millennium technology canlendar that gives the latest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveries...
...key pardoning was by president Abraham Lincoln,whose sun Ted asked him not to eat the turkey that was given to the president, but it didn't become a tradition until more modern times.1）a presidential pardon of a turkey 和 turkey pardoning， 为什么一个使用pardon, 一个使用pardoning ? pa...
...un remained stationary, the birds would shift their direction with respect to it at a rate of about 15 degrees per hour.这里with respect to it感觉去掉也可以，为什么要这么用，此句上一句是 In experimenting with artificial suns, Kramer made another interesting discovery.
In the case of an intruder, a triggered motion detector can turn on floodlights in the yard and instruct your stereo to queue up the sound of a barking dog. Or say you want to avoid unwelcome guests. By mounting a video camera at the front door, you can view visitors on a TV screen.第二句话中...
...n economy comes first,but the new democratic senate will also move quickly to confirm the Biden cabinet nominees awaiting hearings.这里的awaiting hearings是否有误呢？ 应该是to await hearings吗？ 还有，如果awaiting hearings.是正确的话，它的逻辑主语是哪个呢?或者说...
It took me a long time to get rid of illusions and realize the simple and apparent truth that I am nobody but myself. It was a painful process. I started with high expectations only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusioned.请问 only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusio...
1.to get people's attention是修饰use的吗？是做定语构成主谓关系吗？it是指the use of exam
pressure吗？2.take sth to do，一般牛津词典有VN to inf标识的to do都是宾补，但a long time不是to heal动作的发出者，这里的to heal更像是定语，与前面的a long...
...干的政治家，但他不是我们自己人。The leader stepped aside to allow an
able young woman to be elected. 这位老领导人退下来，让一位年轻能干的妇女当选。2.用作表语She seems very able. 她好像很能干。She’s old but still able. 她虽然老了，但是仍然...
..., any more than Saul is courageous’). Here are some further examples:[4] Tom is no more athletic than he ever was. [‘Tom is not athletic, any more than he ever was athletic’][5] I can no more apologize than I could kneel to them.[6] I would no more think of hitting a student than I would a pol...
...hige prints at the Art institute. Two years later he loaned several pieces to the institute for what Ellen Roberts, associate curator of American art at the institute, reckons was the largest display of Japanese prints in America at the time.问题：我在理解划线句子时先把该句简写成...
...一）完形填空中的第一句话是：Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.疑问：1）为什么句中will不是将来...