...party, but he declined it,
observing that he could imagine but two motives fortheir choosing to walk up
and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would
interfere.两位小姐立刻请他来溜达，可是他谢绝了，说是她们俩所以要在屋子里踱来踱去...
...强烈地; 更大程度地; ANTless more是副词•She cares a lot more for her dogs than she does for me.她关心她的狗远远超过关心我。more than•It's his manner I dislike, more than anything else.我最讨厌的是他的态度。【疑惑】第二个例句中的More than ,是可...
...gend would have it, look at the mold on a piece of cheese and get the idea for penicillin there and then.Legent has it that...这是固定句型，根据传说，。。。由于have不能后接that从句，所以用虚指it占据宾语位置作形式宾语，that从句为真正宾语从句。这个...
...can adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, calling sleep deprivation a "public health epidemic."
...：--- Must I go? ---No, you
needn’t.The teacher must show concern forthe pupils, needn’t he?但如must表必须，其否定结构则须用mustn’t。例如: The children must wait outside, mustn’t they? 当must表推测意为一定时，其否定结构一般也不用mustn’t，而...
...urprisingly?)
that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated
the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7. The survey
revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike. Lawn mowers
whining on a summer's day, late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy
neigh...
... of’ or ‘a part
of’ in front of a plural noun group. You do not say, for example, ‘Part of the
soldiers have no rifles’. You say ‘Some of the soldiers have no rifles’.
…Similarly, you do not say ‘A large part of the houses have flat roofs’. You
say ‘ Many of the houses have fla...
... filled with excitement as they
thought of the surprise they were planning for Mother’s Day. How pleased and
proud Mother would be when they brought her breakfast in bed. They planned to
make French toast and chicken porridge. They had watched their mother in the
kitchen. 【翻译】想到为母...
... English was only my
second language. Writing was so difficult and painful for me that my teacher had allowed me to present
my paper on the sinking of the Titanic by acting out a play, where I played
all the parts. No one laughed harder than he did.So, why did he suddenly force me to do something at...
...ften focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like cleaning, cooking and social arrangement.译文：根据我个人的研究，女性对丈夫的抱怨通常不是...
It wasn’t until I entered the corporate world that I realized, for me
at least, being friends with colleagues didn’t emerge as a priority at all.翻译1：这不是我进入公司才意识到的，至少对我来说，和同事交朋友并不是最重要的事情。翻译2：这是我进入公...
1.
I arrived there before the train had started to go2.
You are not going out until you have finished this.before通常表示主句的事件发生于从句火车开动前，如，i had arrived there before train
started to go,但如果按照这个逻辑来看第一个句子，会发现从句的时...
...aving a problem and couldn’t
figure out why. She
asked me gently to play for her. I tried, but only an unpleasant sound came
out. She didn’t shout
at me and handed me a new reed (簧片). I put it in place and
tried again. To my great surprise,
I could play well. My problem was solved and my fea...
....Finally,
I stopped comparing myself with actresses and models and
looking for things that were wrong with my face or body. Instead, I made a
list of the things I liked about myself. By being positive about myself and my
body, I
became both happier and healthier.