Yesterday
afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.
Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as
a boy he used to work in a small shop.
It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen
hours a day. He sav...
The
night passed rapidly. I was too tired even to dream; I only once awoke to hear
the wind rave in furious gusts, and the rain fall in torrents, and to be
sensible that Miss Miller had taken her place by my side. When I again unclosed
my eyes, a loud bell was ringing; the girls were up and dressing...
Small color choices are the ones we’re most familiar with. They’re the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than painting your walls and less expensive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choi...
Other outlets have said he had suffered several strokes, was breathing with the assistance of a ventilator and had only a 50-50 chance of recovery.感觉这个 was 是多余的，没有主语啊？
The first I knew about it was when I woke up in the ambulance. 当我从救护车中苏醒过来时才知道发生了什么事。这是网上的一个句子，网上说是柯林斯词典上的句子，我有两个疑问：1. 句首的 the first 为什么不说成 the first time？我觉得应该改...
The purposes and goals we create are phantom bodies — vestiges of and memorials to the people, places and things we stand to lose and strive to keep.参考译文：我们创造的目标和目的就是幻体——我们必将失去却在努力留住的人、地方、事情的残影和记忆。 ...
... testimony to the romantic speculation he inspiredthat there were whispers about him from those who found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.这是《了不起的盖茨比》上面的节选。其中第二段，我无法分析句子成分，所以完全看不懂。麻烦老...
...有一句， After all ，movie
theaters keep 100% off of concessions and only keep 40% of ticket sales。汉语字幕意思是电影院中在专卖权中有100%的收益，但从门票收入中只有40%的收益。请教对这句话中的单词off如何理解？还有两个单词of可否改成介...
In big cities, cremation is now nearly universal—in cramped urban areas economics, as much as diktat, has helped to determine how to deal with the dead. economics: （牛津高阶） [plural, uncountable]the way in which money influences, or is organized within an area of business or society ▶...
There is going to be an element where we are not succeeding. It's bad
enough not getting what we want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it
is you want and find out at the end of a journey that it isn't ,in fact ,what
you wanted (就是这里) all along.前面一直都是用的现在一般...
These Practice Tests are designed to give future IELTS candidates an idea of whether their English is at the required level.我觉的 to give future IELTS candidates an idea 是非谓语做宾语，whether 是不是定语从句？
My
reasons for marrying are, first, that I think it a right thing for every
clergyman in easy circumstances (like myself) to set the example of matrimony
in his parish. Secondly, that I am convinced it will add very greatly to my
happiness; and thirdly -- which perhaps I ought to have mentioned earl...
...in Type I,
and a singular in Type II. In practice, however, singular verbs areoften found
as alternants of plurals in Type I:[22]
i He’s [one of those people who always want to have the last word].ii
He’s [one of those people who always wants to have the last word]. [Type I]（含
i 和 ii）ii...
...sp;(carry) out research into pairs of identical twins ---those who share 100 percent of their genes. They found that identical twins are equally attractive to mosquitoes. 老师，这边填carried,是因为后文提示的found吗？ 如果没有上下文，具体语境，是不是carried...
...ed Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.这里的we're now quite concerned Russian troop这句话为什么直接...