Finally Richards got up and strode aimlessly about the room, ploughing his hands through his hair, much as a somnambulist might do who was having a bad dream.1. ploughing his hands through - 词典上没找到这样类似的用法。2. 上面much as是否省略了一个as？应该是as much as, ...
Chances are that you will
not take a seatatthe head ofthe table or midway along either side: these are
places where the boss would naturally sit.从语法角度上看，冒号后面的these are…是对前面内容的补充说明吗？它充3当什么语法结构？
In
democratic countries any efforts to
restrict the freedom ofthe press are rightly condemned. However, this freedom
can easily be abused. Stories about people often attract far more public
attention than political events. Though we may enjoy reading about the lives of
others, it is extremely doubt...
...d frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out oftheir wits by giant fish bumping into them as they work.1. by giant fish bumping into them as they work中，bumping into them是fish的定语，bumping into them as they work可以全...
The traffic signals along Factoria Boulevard in Bellevue, Washington, generally don't flash the same length of green twice in a row, especially at rush hour.根据上下文，green的意思应为绿灯的意思，而green本身没有绿灯的意思，这里是省略了light吗？即本身应为gre...
老师好！1. Occasionally,unusual creatures are washed to the shore,but they are rarely caught out at sea.本句中 out at sea 在书中注解为“在远海”。2. A small fishing boat was carried miles out to sea by the powerful fish.本句中 out to sea 在书中注解为“向外海”。请...
请教专家老师： In 1975, a primitive machine called theAltair, was launched in the USA. It can properly be described as the first
'home computer' and it pointed the way to the future. This was followed, atthe
end ofthe 1970s, by a machine called an Apple. In the early 1980s, the
computer ...
They moved in with a local family,
the Harrisons, and, like them, had little privacy, rare baths, and a blanket of
snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning. Some mornings, Rosamond
and Dorothy would arrive atthe schoolhouse to find the children weeping from
the cold. In spring, the snow...
...作宾语补足语的时候可以在前面加as,比如：(1) He described the picture as expressing the dream of mankind.(2) They considered me as having done my best.那么过去分词作宾语补足语的时候可以不可以在前面加as呢？比如这句James Boswell, his biographer, described ...
...ors, and especially
millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.句子出自2014年高考英语全国卷Ⅱ的阅读理解B。请问这里的 grass-roots 明明是放在Americans前作定语，为什么要用复数呢？问题2. The
Energiewende raises cost, unsettles supp...
In a statement on Monday, the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it had given the green light to Moderna's combination "bivalent" vaccine, which will be used as an adult booster shot and will be offered to people aged 50 and over starting in the fall. 英国药品和...
比如下面的句子，the moment 引导时间状语从句，相当于 as soon as：The moment I have finished I’ll give you a call. 我一干完就给你打电话。The moment he spoke we recognized his voice. 他一说话，我们认出了他的声音。The moment I saw him I knew thatthere wa...
...地吹气球，直到气球爆炸。17. I decide to grow a beard until thetree I grew grows
taller than him. 我决定留胡子，一直留到我栽的树长到比我高为止。18. I hold
thatthe opening ceremony be held in the
main hall, which can hold 5000 people. 我认为开幕式应该在可...
...词典，turn out 的意思是“结果是”“被证明是”等。如：The meeting turned out to be a bit ofa marathon. 这场会议有点像马拉松。His advice turned out to be no use atall. 结果证明他的建议一点儿用处都没有。The job turned out to be harder than we thought....