...seemly to decline this proposal. I think perhaps I should have made a show of the indignation I really felt, and I am sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had been able to report my stout refusal to sit at the same table with a man of such character. But the fear o...
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only too rarely: the viable balance between a rigorous, disciplined mode of
government and attention to the ethical values of the humanities. From the
outset they faced one question, seen indeed before the days of empire had
dawned, but not fully resolved over twenty centuries. Each dynastic house...
...may wonder why something easy to get are also easy to lose?We think highly of what we pay a lot to get while barely value what we get effortlessly. Thus we take the “easy come” thing for granted and use it unrestrained. So we wast out what we get soon.Besides, the chance we get something wi...
In those countries, we can see a lot of people still wear singles in winter or some cool rainy days. 在那些国家，我们可以看到很多人在冬天或凉爽的雨天仍穿着单薄的衣服。这是一篇书面表达中的句子。请问：句子中用 wear singles 表示“穿着单薄的...
...other than the people in that house will wind up dead, or a greater number of people than the number the number of people in that house will wind up dead. 如果没有上下文，此句会有不同理解：1. 除了屋里的人，另外也死了一些人。2. 外面的人比屋里的人死的多。I...
Which do you enjoy ______ your spare time, playing cards at home or taking a walk in the park?我知道可以填 to spend 构成目的状语。但我的另一个理解是 enjoy spending your spare time (in) which. which 代指 playing cards at home or taking a walk in the park 作(in) 的宾语。...
前面有位网友的提问有这样一个句子：We can meet at the pub orin the restaurant, whichever’s nearer for you. 我们可以在酒吧或餐馆见面，看哪个离你近一些。原句见：http://ask.yygrammar.com/q-23384.html 请问这里的whichever的是什么从句？从形...
N-SING (品尝的)少量，一点，一小口If you have a taste of some food or drink, you try a small amount of it inorder to see what the flavour is like.We have a taste of the white wine he's brought. 我们尝了尝他带来的白葡萄酒。 以上的a taste of 都表示...
He get married at the age of 18, the age when most of his friends were still in school or at college.老师解释说是句子中的 the age 是同位语，后面的 when most of his... 是修饰 the age 的定语从句。请问专家，是这样分析的吗？
A part of the total space of any object, loose or tight, consists of empty space. 参考译文：任意一个松的或紧的物体的全部体积中的一部分是由空隙组成的。1.请教老师，形容词词组loose or tight可以称作为非限制性定语吗？它是后置定语更是...
Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Galileo’s 17th century trial for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake’s harsh remarks against the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between science and the humanit...
...guy David Mellor needs no introduction. He’s so famous, not only because of his talent, but because of his looks. Neither pretty nor ugly, they’re strange especially his face. It’s like a flat board. On the board, eyes, nose, mouth and ears are all in their places. But each of them possesses e...
...ey live longer than people who are less well connected. And the experience of loneliness turns out to be toxic. People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner and they live...
Knowledge, in any art or science, being always the fruit of observation, study, or practice, gives, in proportion to its extent and usefulness, the possessor a just claim to respect. 在任何艺术和科学中，由于知识总是观察研究或是实践的成果，知识所有者应受到尊...
原句是In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call forth the spirit of plant and animal life, if only symbolically, through a clumplike arrangement of materials, an intro...