"It's time you were making good, sonny," he went on, with an ugly look on his reddened face. "You're not playing up to me square. You've been the prodigal son for four weeks now, and you could have had veal for every meal on a gold dish if you'd wanted it. Now, Mr. Kid...
hope:~ (for sth) to want sth to happen and think that it is possible 希望,期望(某事发生)[单独使用的动词]We are hoping for good weather on Sunday.老师,词典没有说明hope可以使用其它副词或介词的固定搭配,这说明hope for的for是固定搭配的介词吗...
...for your own good; learn a useful trade like shoemaking.”So the boy, who was not sensible at all, went home. There he took what little money he had,
said good-bye to his mother and his stepfather and started out to seek his
fortune. He was sure that some day the name Hans Christian Andersen would ...
...能性。
Any man can make mistakes, but only an
idiot persists in his error. 【谚语】人人都可能犯错误,但只有白痴才知错不改。
英国著名语言学家 Geoffrey N.
Leech 在《简明英语语法和用法指南》
(英语版书名为An A-Z
English Grammar and Usage) 中指...
请问老师这句怎么理解?可以理解成倒装句吗?At it peak in 2007 it was worth some 65 billion, reckons Clare, founder of Art Economics, a research firm-double figure five years earlier.
It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry--dignified, solid, and reassuring.老师,dignified, solid, and reassuring 后面是否省略了名词?
...每日邮报》近日的一篇文章中有这样一句话:Homosexuality was decategorised as a mental disorder by the Chinese Psychiatric Association in 2001.对于 decategorise 一词,维基词典指出,词源为de- + categorise ,并未解释其含义。请问为什么要加 de- 前缀,...
This story was all the motivation I needed at that point to keep me
moving ahead.老师,这里的all是修饰motivation吧,后面的关系词不是应该用that吗?而且关系词不能省略吧?为什么这里的关系词却省略了呢?是因为做的从句的宾语所以省略了that么...