Casual workers are usually paid ______ the hour.
A. by B. on C. to D. with
答案是 by。但为什么不能是 on 呢？on the hour 的搭配我也见过。如：
A bus leaves for New York on the hour.
"I do worry sometimes that as soon as we leave the prayer breakfast,everything we have been talking about the whole time at the prayer breakfast seems to be forgotten, on the same day of the prayer breakfast,”he said.that后面是worry的宾语从句，然后这个宾语从句又是一...
A judge agreed to postpone a hearing in which the FBI was seeking to force Apple to help unlock an iPhone used by a dead terrorist.请问：如何理解句中的 in？in which 在这句中可以换成 where 吗？
1 There he was, working hard at his small business, waving at passers-by and stopping to chat now and then with elderly men and women on their way tothe market nearby.请问老师：副词there因为强调而前置，那there在这里是不是做表语，后面的working/ waving/ stopping是现在...
Since the autumn of 2016 NatCen has polled the same panel of voters, who like the country as a whole were divided in the referendum by 52％ to 48% in favour of Leave.老师好，请问这个定语从句谓语是谁呀？
...the irony being that she was widely understood to have spoken out aginst it in the privacy of the committee.麻烦老师解惑 这句话的主句是啥啊？谓语动词是什么？ 我觉得红色地方就是个后置定语对吗？如果是的话没有谓语了呢 很不懂 。
Tried out, Falstaff might have rendered more romance totheton than would have Romeo's rickety ribs tothe ounce.书上是这么翻译的：试验一下，要说风流韵事，福斯塔夫的本事原本应该比瘦条条的罗密欧要大得多了。这是欧亨利的《带天窗的房间》...
1,Except Tom，all the student went tothe party. .2, My husband hates Christmas, not the Christmas itself, but the commercial aspect of it.
【问题】以上两句中，" Except tom"，"not...but...."语法上如何分析？是不是状语？如果是的话是哪一种？谢谢。
The average international runway model has a body mass index (BMI) under 16-low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization’s standard. And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence此...
The occasion demanded some show of recognition on my part.这种情况要求我必须表现出认同。“The center of the world?” I repeated,“世界的中心？”我重复道，trying to show interest if not complete acceptance.虽然我并不真正赞同，但仍尽力表现出对此的兴...
英文：It seemed likely that nothing but the fact of being three celibate Englishmen in a foreign capital could have brought us together.翻译：三个英国人各自来到陌生国度，这似乎是让我们聚在一起的唯一理由。疑问：1. 这句话中的being是不是...
...ice（还有half）表示倍数进行比较时，应该用as …as或twice the...结构，而不是more than结构，这是英文的习惯用法。有些英文词典直接把twice as much/many和twice as作为句式结构列出。CGOEL明确告诫：Twice is used with as many as or as much as r...
（前句省略），so as to chart the course for overcoming challenges facing the world economy and have more people share the fruits of innovation and development .译文：“...........，为应对世界经济面临的挑战指明方向，让更多国家人民共享创新发展成果。”问...