...r was a policeman and his mother a housewife. Home didn't have a flush toilet or refrigerator until Arnie was 14. He arrived in the U. S. a penniless 21-year-old. His wife, Maria Shiver, is an anchor woman on U. S. TV news and niece of assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Andy Warhol and...
If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably
early than even a fraction of a minute too late. Although being early may mean
wasting a little time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to
wait an hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of a...
One day the boy went to ask a favor of the Prince of Denmark. When the
Prince asked him what he wanted, the boy said, “I want to write plays in poetry
and to act at the Royal Theater.” The Prince looked at the boy, at his big
hands and feet, at his big nose and large serious eyes, and gave a sen...
...seful of people. So when it
looked as if my husband, Don, and I were going to be eating alone, it just
seemed natural to invite Justin, aninternational
student from China. A few days later Justin called to ask if he might invite
two of his student friends - one from Korea, one from Iran. The more, t...
121.（1）sb
can’t help doing sth (P1214) 作“used
to say that someone is unable to change their behaviour or feelings, orto
prevent themselves from doing something 某人忍不住做某事，某人不能停止做某事”解。例如：I can't help thinking
he knows more than he has told us....
"It's a thousand to one against our finding him at the house," he continued as we retraced our steps swiftly down the path. "Those shots must have told him that the game was up."请教老师：为什么这句话的意思是“要想在室内抓住他，可能性微乎其微” 。a thou...
Your pitch should be tailored to the specific person or company that you are pitching to.请问老师，定语从句这里使用了that是因为什么？因为先行词既包含人和物，所以选择that？还是因为先行词是company，所以选择that？这里的or有没有影响？看到先...
...在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I was always timid (羞怯的). Being new to the
school made me even ___1___, so it was surprising I’d ___2___ to anyone around
me. Now I was paying the price—to write a five-age essay on “Why I Should Not
Talk in Class”. That would take all night!After I got...
...she was there at the conference." The sentence means thatA. she seems to be there at the conference.B. she seemed to be there at the conference.C. she seems to have been there at the conference.D. she seemed to being there at the conference.参考答案说：題干的意思为“看...
... in part at least, because the fathers who were plumbers made enough money to send their children to college so they wouldn’t have to be plumbers.书上的参考翻译：做水管工的父辈赚了足够的钱，把孩子送进了大学，于是孩子们便不用再当水管工了。这至少能...
There were still forests closely surrounding Bangkok into the last half of the nineteenth century, and even at century's end there were wild elephants and tigers roaming the countryside only twenty or thirty miles away.请教一下各位老师，如何判断这句话中的“only twenty or thirty mi...
...through
doing something 都可以，含义相同。例如：
He learned to cook through [=by]
watching his mother in the kitchen . 他通过在厨房里观察母亲做饭来学习烹饪。（摘自中国大百科全书出版社2017年1月第1版《韦氏高阶英汉双解词典》p.2192）
We sold...
The room was silent. His heart pounded the way it had on their first
night together, the way it still did when he woke at a noise in the darkness and
waited to hear again—the sound of someone moving through the house, a stranger.请教句中 at 的用法。
The program is open to any U.S. citizen 18 years or older who currently lives in the country and winning applicants must agree to move within one month of being selected.请问为什么加粗部分用了18 years or older而不是18 years old or older？谢谢！例句出处：https://www.travelandle...