"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...
...一些关系副词被介词+which的用法。比如：I will never forget the day when I first met you on the ship.I will never forget the day on which I first met you on the ship.I will never forget the day on which time I first met you on the ship.
Cleisthenes' principal contribution to the creation of democracy at Athens was to complete the long process of weakening family and clan structures, especially among the aristocrats, and to set in their place locality-based corporations called demes, which became the point of entry for all civic...
The child was found wandering the streets alone.＝he child was found wandering around the streets alone?She wandered aimlessly around the streets.=She wandered aimlessly the streets.?老师，这两句句子的意思相同吗，及物动词+副词，不及物动词+介词有时是如何区分的？
问题: Just down the road from us in rural Virginia is an old deserted cabin with a classroom, a tiny kitchen and a toilet. From the windows, you see the Blue Ridge mountains, surmounted by Old Rag, and in the foreground a horse or two.老师好，请问in the foreground做什么成分？&nbs...
小说Hard Times中：Whatsoever the public meeting held in Coketown, and whatsoever the subject of such meeting, some Coketowner was sure to seize the occasion of alluding to his eminently practical friend Gradgrind.求指教！老师，whatsoever这里是什么用法，什么词性？我的理解...
"One passenger was hanging upside down. The other two managed to
wedge themselves into the bow end cap,"
Ross said, adding that he did not know if a safety assessment of the Titan or
an inspection of its hull was performed after the incident.这句话的upside down是个副词短语吧，修饰hang...
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Insurgent forces were reported advancing in the region. 据报道，起义军在这个地区正向前推进。（摘自（摘自《薄冰英语惯用法词典》p.847-848）
The later rice was reported growing better than last year . 据报道，晚稻长势比去...
The comparisons were,
without exception, to my disadvantage. The wretched boy never set foot upon a
football field without scoring a goal; I became conscious of my inferiority,
for I was hopeless at games."I used to hear so much
about you," he said with a grin. "Then I learned that you were a
member...
...ing a good time and was exploring, two activities that did matter to us.2. The manner in which the Chinese staff saw the need to teach the child by guiding his hand is characteristic of a broader attitude to education, one that stands in contrast to the western preference for leaving the child to ex...
The second step of the plan is even more ambitious: building several large artificial islands in the sea to the south of Hong Kong. The new, 45-square-mile archipelago would fall outside Hong Kong’s boundaries, meaning it would require backing from China’s central government.Island building on s...
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essayIn some countries there has been an increase in the
number of parents who educate their children themselves at home instead of
sending them to school.Do you think the advantage of this outweigh the
disadvantages?It is a rising trend that numerou...