...rsation never settled down so comfortably as when it turned to the details of the trade which was the other side of the art we practised. When we had done discussing the merits of the latest book, it was natural to wonder how many copies had been sold, what advance the author had received, and how m...
...u are too much in a hurry to accept as a gift to your humanity
some pieces of the minds of Sophocles— and right down the scale and down the
ages to Yeats, Einstein, E. B. White, and Ogden Nash — then you may be
protected by the laws governing manslaughter, and you may be a voting entity,
but you...
A party of climbers imported a Swiss guide into the Lake District, and on the first morning, surveying the misty peaks before him, he pointed to a ledge about two thirds of the way up one of them and suggested that the party should spend the night there. up在句中做什么成分，是和two t...
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine offers a number of reasons that may be causing your particular variant of hypnagogic jerks. Unfortunately, the spectrum of explanations is so broad that it really doesn't help narrow down much at all.这句话最后的much是做narrow的宾语还是修饰at all...
I'd prefer it if you didn't smoke in front of me.老师，可以改成以下这些句子吗？1. I'd prefer this if you didn't smoke in front of me.2. I'd prefer that if you didn't smoke in front of me.3. If you didn't smoke in front of me, I'd prefer it.4. If yo...
The weight of the ice and snow collapsed the roofof our work room, taking with it one of our sources of our income.这句话是什么意思？怎么理解后半句的意思？做什么成分？taking with it 是什么意思？谢谢
...exporters when trying to place their products in industrialized countries. Of course, marketing goods aboard is not only a question of price. There are also other important factors such as design, quality of goods, term of sale, transport and insurance.这里的aboard是不是应该写成abroad？
老师好！我看到一个句子，觉得特别有意思，The amount of
water on earth has not changed for billions of years, but the ratio of fresh to
salt water has. 后面的句子，把changed省掉了，这是承前省略，可是其中的the ratio of
fresh to salt water 确正和它相反，...
Probably there is no one here who has not in the course of the day had occasion to set in motion a complex train of reasoning, of the very same kind, though differing in degree, as that which a scientific man goes through in tracing the causes of natural phenomena.请问这句话该如何分析...
A great grandmother of mine,who was a friend of Gibbon,lived to the age
of ninety-two,and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants.老师请问这个句子中remain是a grand mother of mine 的谓语吗? 还有to her last day是不是状语?但是有to her last day这种用法吗为...
...xciting event; it grows as a mature interest in the variety and complexity of the drama, the splendid achievements and terrible failures; it ends as deep sense of the mystery of man's life of all the dead, great and obscure, who once walked the earth, and of wonderful and awful possibilities of ...
Apart
from the hostile influence of man, the organic and inorganic world are, as I
have remarked, bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations as
secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both, a long
continuance of the established conditions of each at any given time and ...
1.There is a world shortage of fuel.2.There is a room the length of a bed.3.This book is about Jimmy's attempts to set up a book company that is run by people his own age.4.However, there were plenty of species the size of cows, sheep, small dogs and even those the size of a cat or chicken.以上的...