One student in a hundred _____ (is/are) to be chosen to attend the meeting.
答案是：is，为什么不能用 are？如果按比例，100个当中选1个，那么200个当中就选2个，300个当中就选3个，400个当中就选4个，……应该是可以用单数或复数啊。
...God damn my wife. She is an excellent woman. I wish she was in hell. It is not thus that the Church in its great days dealt with evidence that was unwelcome.关于：since Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz was able to...中的since，书上翻译成“而，但是，可是”， 表转折。但是翻遍词典...
I also feel that there are many who can read without much difficulty articles written by Chinese on Chinese subjects but cannot read those written by Englishmen on English subjects.摘自葛传椝《向学习英语者讲话》(Fountain·泉系列) (Kindle 位置 102-103). 上海译文出版社. Kind...
...医生。You should avoid such
mistakes. 你应当避免这样的错误。They should be there
by now, I think. 我想现在他们都已经到了。should表示推断时，语气比较肯定，通常是指非常可能的事，相比较而言，我们前面讲过的may,
might, could等情态动词在...
... Republic since 2013. In the chaos the school teachers have quietly disappeared so now parents are going through crash courses to replace them.to replace them是目的状语or定语？A top UN official told senior North Korean figures there was an "urgent need" to keep channels o...
...考研英语文章：Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary way: analytically, procedurally, relationally(or collaboratively) and innovatively.参考译文：二十世纪六十年代末，研究人员就发现人类天...
...ng the quality bar. On the contrary,this is the time where many improments are being made which will then be distributed via a Day 0 patch.这里定语从句用where引导是否有误？先行词是time，按理说应该用when呀。另外我理解which引导的是improments的定语从句，只是...
比如在 How deserts are formed 一文中有这么一句话：Changing the general economic and institutional structures that
generate new chances for people to support themselves would alleviate the
current pressures accompanying the desertification processes. 老师您好，我想问一下that...
... “Yes, very.” “让你吃惊了吗？”“是的，非常吃惊。”They weren’t very nice (to me). [= they didn’t treat
me well; they were mean to me ] 他们（对我）不太友好。(以上例句摘自《韦氏高阶英汉双解词典》p.2329) 但是，在某些形容词前面，不...
"Whatever are you doing up here Bill?" asked the vicar in surprise.这个是原句,但是我默写的时候却是 Whatever are you doing up here Bill? the vicar asked in surprise.我的问题就是好作者怎么把ask提到主语the vicar前面去了,这种引语方面的注意事项在...
...would have been more saturated with fish. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past.【参考译文】早先时候，用多钩长线本也可以捕获更多的鱼。因...
...s, university professors, 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？
...rica, people who receive 25% of their daily calories or more through sugar
are twice as likely to die from heart
disease than people who receive less than 10% a day. 这个句子中，twice as likely to die from
heart disease as... 意思是“死于心脏病的可能性是......的两倍”。这...