...ether for old time's
sake, and when I agreed to dine with him, he proposed that he should ask nobody
else, so that we could chat without interruption. He had a beautiful old house
in Queen Anne Street, and being a man of taste he had furnished it admirably.
On the walls of the diningroom I saw a cha...
...n is extended beyond noun phrases (cf 17.65 ff). Compare: The good news is that I've been offered a job in a law firm. Such a relationship is typical between units separated by a colon. A further example：The man has been drinking heavily：this，not age，explained his unsteady walk.[3]Here the p...
... What have you had??B: I had burgers. 还是 I have had burgers.?A: Who made them for you? 还是 Who has made them for you??B: Mother.第2组 A: He has got to Australia.B: How has he got there? 还是 How did he get there？A: He has taken the plane.还是 He took the plan...
the same…that和the same…as有什么区别■倪肖丁(西安) 有读者问：the same…that…和the same…as…有什么区别? 《薄冰英语常见共性问题解答》（商务版2008）第323页回答说：that多表示同一的，例如He
works in the same factory that I do；as多表...
...neration Xer, Generation Y等词语，查词典查到：Generation X：the group of people in the U.S. who were born during
the late 1960s and the 1970s X一代（指美国20世纪60年代末至70年代出生的人）Generation Y：the group of people who were born between the early
1980s and the ...
...she could hope for was a career as a nurse or schoolteacher, the only work that capable females were considered up to in those days.This must have saddened my mother, this twist of fate that had allocated all the gumption to the daughter and left her with a son who was content with Dick Tracy and St...
By 31 January, 191 adults had been treated for the virus and either discharged or died at the two hospitals. The average age of these individuals was 56, and 62 per cent were men. Around half of those treated had underlying medical conditions, most commonly diabetes and high blood pressure.这...
...ed overnight. For years, some specialists have had an ___5___ feeling that bed rest was not the answer. But what finally put an end to ___6____ bed rest was a study of more than 200 patients who were treated for back pain in a clinic in Taxes. Not only did patients who had two days" bed re...
...e will
be shortages in the job market. Consequently, a lot of ex-employees who thought
they had finished their careers at 60 or whatever, will be called back to work.请教曹老师： they had finished their careers 这里为什么要用过去完成时态，而不用can finish their
careers一般...
...am to
congratulate him on his marriage, but I didn't manage it.I had hoped that Jennifer would study
medicine, but she didn't want to.We had hoped to organize a trip to the
theatre tonight, but it didn't come off.That was something I hadn't expected.We had expected to arrive an hour late, but
in the...
Six months out,more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them ,compared to about one-seventh in the other group请问这句话中的compared to是作什么成分的？
...t of their education-rather a singular coincidence; though it is true that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that see...
...of us who voted remain, we are as baffled as you as to how leaving a
great group of countries who we have been trading with and have been at peace
with foralmost 50 years just beggars belief.这里的 be they rich or
pooror have a degree or not 从have开始，是whether they have a degree or not...