There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for protection.请问此处的when可以用that替代吗? in return for protection 在这里理解为原因还是目的?
...N) reported a 27% sales increase to$ 13.81 billion, up from$ 10.88 billion the same time last year, and an operating loss of$ 28 million. 亚马逊称（第三季度）销售额较去年同期增长27%，从108.8亿美元增加到了138.1亿美元，但经营亏损高达2800万美元。&n...
The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.请教老师： set an edge to a man's energy 是什么意思？
完整段落 But, on the other hand, childhood has so quickly learned to find daily things tedious, and familiar things importunate, that it has no great delight in the mere middle of the day, and feels weariness of the summer that has ceased to change visibly. The poetry of mere day and of late sum...
... library used to be a meeting place for all who loved books and liked to share knowledge. They discussed various matters all over the world. When the war was near, Alia was worried thatthe fires of war would destroy the books, which are more precious to her than mountains of gold. The books are in ...
Neuroscientists are excited by technological progress that facilitates brain mapping, the most sanguine of them comparing their growing abilities to tremendous advances that led to the unimaginable success of the Human Genome Project请问老师，红字部分是独立主公还是表伴...
表示“剩下的全部”，“剩下的一些”该怎么表达？（后有修饰成分）Tom and Lily have arrived，but ______ students of the class arenot here yet.A.otherB.othersC.the otherD.the others请老师解答每个选项，越详细越好，谢谢。
...;m looking for a present for my mother's birthday, ___ she can use and at a reasonable price.A. which B.one 答案为B，选A理解为非限制性定语从句为啥不对？如果在at前面加一个is的话，答案有变化吗？
It was an extremely cold winter’s evening and freezing fog hung in the
air. I climbed to the top of a small rise and realised thatthe mist was little
more than a few feet deep, and though it was only a short climb, I found myself
completely above it and looking at a wonderfully clear view of Skid...
...泛指所有的“死者”，不指单个的“死者”：Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. 有些节目是为了纪念死者，或使祖先得到满足，因为祖先们有可能回到世上（给人们）提供...
...理解和翻译呢？What's most tragic about Jackson's death, aside from the fact that it
comes as he was mounting a comeback to include(就是这里) a sold-out 50-show
residence(就是这里) at London's O2 Arena，is that what people will
remember about him is his changing face. Whatthey should...
...nbsp;Pumas never attack a human being except ______ cornered. a. they are b. being c. thatthey are d. when they are答案是d. 但我觉得 a, c 看着好像也对，老师能讲一下 a, c 为什么不对吗？谢谢老...
...not crying here?"
标准答案是：Mrs. Green asked her not to cry there.
我的答案是：Mrs. Green said to her if she would mind not crying there.
我是按照老方法写的，直接引语为一般疑问句就改为了 if 或 whether 形式，不知道对不对。
问题 1：如...
Again, there has always been something surprising to me about those cone-shaped hills that suddenly pop up in Shropshire and along the Welsh border I have never explored this region properly, and so it remains to me a country of mystery, with a delightful fairy-tale quality about its cone-shaped hil...