...k. What’s the worst that
could happen if they don’t respond? I thought.One
day, I saw a commercial for a health-care company. People in the ad were using plastic
straws. I googled the contact info ofthe company and emailed its president. I told
him how plastic can harm the environment and asked...
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; 1) nothing but is beautiful in the whole.
A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek 2) each
to concentrate this radiance ofthe world on one point, and each in...
...We’ve already had a try at it. 我们已经试过一下。A Mr Wingate phoned and left a message for you. 一位姓温盖特的先生给您打来电话并留了言。【用法说明】1.在序数词之前通常是使用定冠词，表特指；若使用不定冠词，则表示数量或序数的递...
... using the smart keyboard. Data collected from the
device could be used to recognize different participants based on how they
typed, with very low error rates. The researchers say that the keyboard should
be pretty straightforward to commercialize and is mostly made of inexpensive,
plastic-like part...
...o give up when I saw my family members seated
there. 2.I
was announced asoneofthe second-prize winners and all my family took great pride in me for my success. 3.
To guarantee the safety ofthe palace, festival organizers planning this years’ lantern festival event used
lights rather than tra...
A favourite pastime of mine to help when money is tight is to stock up on items that are on special offer—such as BOGOF deals (buy one, get one free).标下划线的部分很多地方不理解问题1: to help是修饰pastime? 句意是什么？问题2: stock up on是短语？
...
have banned texting by drivers, and public service campaigns have tried a wide
range of methods to persuade people to put down their phones when they are
behind the wheel. Yet the problem, by just about any
measure, appears to be getting worse. Americans are still texting while driving,
as well as ...
...受。”比较：less… than“不象…；不是…”Joseph is less honest than his
brother. (约瑟弗不是/象他兄弟那样诚实。)三、 no
more than或 not any more than两者的意思均为“只有；仅仅；不过”（= only; just）。前者多用于书面语；后者常用...
...ir idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough,
irregular stones ofthe street, pointing every way, and designed, one might
have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had
dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling
group...
...o see that many people regard protein as some kind of universal elixir – one food companies are profitably adding to anything they can. 后面这个定语从句调整语序是food companies are profitably adding one to anything they can. 那么They can后面是省略了add one to？他们能...
...d carrying tourists on slingshot trips around the moon.牛津高阶：earn one's `keep work hard enough to cover the costs ofone's food,
accommodation, etc 挣钱维持生活.请问老师上面这句话中，earn its keep 是否是这里的意思？keep 后面直接加 doing 吗？