The noise had been so faint that no one thought that the ship had been damaged.The noise had been so faint 为什么不是用was来表达,而用had been? 用完成时能表达出什么效果? 感觉理解不了.. 难道是之前声音很大,现在已经变微弱了?
1) The home improvements have taken what little there is of my spare
time.there is是什么成分，what是和little连用表示强调，形容非常少吗？2) So little of who I am happened in those eight years.在词典上只查到a little of，为什么so little后面也能加of？
1）The book is so written that it gives a quite wrong idea of the facts.2）His diligence was such that he made great progress. (=Such was his diligence that he made great progress.)以上2句：1)句中so后直接是written,不像通常都带有形容词或副词，2)句such后...
Sending warplanes to bomb India’s nuclear neighbour earlier this year was not so much an act of strength as recklessness that could have ended in disaster. 请问老师，这里的not是否有误？感觉意思讲不通呀！
So needy are the citizens of the "last frontier" that the looming trial of Ted Stevens, Alaska's senior senator and champion pork-rustler, for failing to disclose gifts is viewed not just as a political scandal but also as an economic threat.我已经理解了后面 for 引导的原因...
...y says he wishes he knew who this fried chicken snatcher (小偷) was! Not so he could catch her and bring her to justice but rather because he'd like to give her some free food!请问老师这句话里面的so和rather放在not…but…后面应该怎么理解？