Forbes also thought he saw, as he later told the British Association,
that " the number of species and individuals diminishes as we descend,
pointing to a zero in the distribution of animal life as yet unvisited."请教一下曹老师,这个句子中为什么diminishes使用单数形式而非复...
...代词+介词短语”这类独立主格结构中,当其中的介词是in时,其前后的两个名词通常不加任何修饰语(如物主代词或冠词),也不用复数。如:A girl came in, book in hand. 一个少女进来了,手里拿着书。The soldiers dashed in, rifle in hand. ...
The goal
is to remove the highly radioactive material, put it into engineered
canisters... and put those in storage.
这句话的in
storage 外刊提示是存放着的意思,这个介词短语在这里是做什么成分?修饰put做方式状语,还是直接理解把这些罐子放在一个储...
It is a salutary discipline to consider the vast number of books that are written, the fair hopes with which their authors see them published, and the fate which awaits them. What chance is there that any book will make its way among that multitude? And the successful books are but the suc...