原文：Another adaptation reducing the weight of birds is the absence of some
organs. Females, for instance, have only one ovary. Also, modern birds are
toothless, an adaptation that trims the weight of the head.同义替换：Modern birds do not have teeth, an adaptation that reduces the weight
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...a value. For every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. Each of these options has a different opportunity cost—namely, what they cost us in missed opportunities.Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive and ...
My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when,
for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory. My best friend Betsy’s father was a
manager at Hough Bakeries, which, at Easter time, made little bunny (兔子) cakes for all
its stores throughout Cleveland. It happened that...
...d pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.句中quote the...
The starup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be
comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using
just their televisions and a remote control. using分词结构的逻辑主语是什么呢？1. 之前听老师讲状语可分为主语有关的状语与...
请问Their personal life was regularly discussed by
people who did not know them but talked as if they were close friends中的as if they were
close friends是陈述语气还是虚拟语气?
...版必修一第2单元：I see my path,
but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowinig where I’m going is what inspires
me to travel it. (Rosalia de
Castrro) (p25)TRAVEL PERU (p26)这里的 travel 后面为什么没有介词 to 呢？英语可以说 travel a place 吗？
...ude, we often find the opposite.4. I'm telling you this so that you should not make a mistake.如何理解句中would和should的语义？还是它们只具有句法功能，没有词汇意义？不过，第4句，给人的感觉具有推测意义。感谢各位老师！
... A Friend in Need 《患难之交》:I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke, that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine.大概就是因为这个，当他落得一文不名的时候，就来找我，再说他和我同姓。请问老师，以上句子中的三个 that 分别指...
If the time shall ever come when, through the labor of the geologist, all that can possibly be learned in regard to the structure and development of the earth shall have been learned, the occupation of the geologist would be gone.该句选自于里拉·雷姆森写的《WHAT IS SCIENCE？》...
New arrivals claimed my host's attention, and I was left to myself. When at last we were all assembled, waiting for dinner to be announced, I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to "take in," that civilised man practised a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the...
...h is an old-fashioned hero, suspecting/suspicious of modern technology and not even willing to use a smartphone. That puts him in various dangerous situations.这里的话，用 suspecting 表伴随或者用 suspicious 作形容词修饰 Johnny English 是不是都可以。还是只能选择其中...
... Just because chance had been ruled out as an explanation did not prove telepathy must exist; there were many other ways of getting positive results. 这里as用法是什么？我理解：作介词，解释为“作为”；must是表示“必定”的语气吗？；这句话中主...