...ave her
room. Elizabeth was glad to be taken to her immediately; and Jane, who had only
been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience, from expressing in
her note how much she longed for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance.
She was not equal, however, to much conversation, and w...
I explained the situation to the ticket-collectorwhoadvised me to get off two stops before
Vienna Central Station and take a taxi.这边的定语从句中的谓语动词为什么不能用had advised，我的理解是，advise这个动作在explained之前发生。对比上一句：Not one of us ha...
...ge himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not
carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the
wrong?“ the king demanded. “The general, or myself?”这里两个if从句都是虚拟语气 主句也是虚拟语气，if the general did not carry
out the order th...
... for the school’s coach and asked him what had happened. “I was afraid that kids from other schools would laugh at him,” he explained uncomfortably. “I gave him the choice to run or not, and let him decide.”I bit back my frustration (懊恼). I knew the coach meant well — he thought he w...
Five years earlier, her mother had died of cancer. It was her father
then who had looked after everything - her mother's operation, then the
funeral. And after her mother's death, it was her father who looked after her and her younger sister, and had seen them through school, and then
college for he...
As
we walked along I reflected on a circumstance which all that I had lately heard
about Strickland forced on my attention. Here, on this remote island, he seemed
to have aroused none of the detestation with which he was regarded at home, but
compassion rather; and his vagaries were accepted with to...
... in the
village wells rose and fell, rose and fell. There were deep cracks that
appeared in the well walls. At least one well had some smelly gas coming out of
it. Chickens and even pigs were too nervous to eat, and dogs refused to go
inside buildings. Mice ran out of the fields looking for places t...
1.By any measure other than that of the aristocrats，who had been upstaged by the supposedly inferior "people," the Athenian democracy was a stunning success. “who had been upstaged by the supposedly inferior "people,"” 是什么意思？2.It was precisely this opp...
...e music, taught me to drive, teased me about girls, thrown me a football—that one adult whom I targeted as a child and said, “That’s who I want to be when I grow up”—died of pancreatic cancer at the age of forty- four.请问文中的target怎么理解？
...ains, jets, and even bicycles. Dr. Christopher Wilk is a
member of a small group of elevator experts who consider this a misunderstanding.
Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no downtown skyscrapers or
tall buildings, and city life as we know it would be impossible. In that sense,
t...
...ssing a small gathering in a suburban Virginia living room—a women's group that had invited me to join them. Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes, while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch.译文：有一个女性团...
...ptain Nichols
looked upon it as a smart piece of work on Strickland's part that he had got
out of this by painting a portrait of Tough Bill. Tough Bill not only paid for
the canvas, colours, and brushes, but gave Strickland a pound of smuggled
tobacco into the bargain. Forall I know, this picture m...
...breakfast on the terrace of the hotel and introduced himself.
He had heard that I was interested in Charles Strickland, and announced that he
was come to have a talk about him. They are as fond of gossip in Tahiti as in
an English village, and one or two enquiries I had made for pictures by
Strickla...
... be sought the explanation of what so utterly perplexed me. It was evident that colours and forms had a significance for Strickland that was peculiar to himself. He was under an intolerable necessity to convey something that he felt, and he created them with that intention alone. He did not hesitate...