As bad as he is, he is not without merits (= Bad as he is/Though he is bad, he is not without merits).括号内的同义句,我懂的,分别由连词as和连词though连接前后句子。但是原句我却不明白:As bad as he is...这种句子单独出现了as...as,怎么理解谁和谁比...
Appian wrote that Hadrian, like Titus, destroyed Jerusalem, implying that there was something to demolish, and the rebels, sweeping all before them, would surely have besieged the Tenth Legion in the Citadel and worshipped on the Temple Mount if they had had the chance, but we do not know if they di...
... a painting cannot be said to preserve it.If a painting "stops", time, it is not, like a photograph, preserving a moment of the past from the supersession of succeeding moments. I am thinking of the image within the frame, the scene which is depicted. Clearly if one considers an artist'...
... as any of its kind in the world.主句had heard是过去完成时,宾语从句的时态应该至少不晚于主句的时态had heard, 那么为什么宾语从句仍然使用了it was一般过去时呢?We had all heard that it HAD BEEN a great dam - 可以这样说嘛?这里的宾语从句用w...
... went by bus,it would be cheaper but the train is quicker.
If 从属连词引导we went by bus
But是并列连词,所以It would be cheaper but the train is quicker. 这句本应该就是完整的一个句子了,还可以在句子前加if从属连词引导的句子吗? 或者是因为if we w...