From
her capacious pocket, that hand was ever withdrawn closed, only to be opened in
our own with the nuts she had gathered, with the cherries she had plucked, the
little egg she had found, the “turn-over” she had baked, the trinkets she had
purchased for us as the products of her spinning, the ...
...us people. And here I was — a Puerto Rican— hours past midnight, faced with two white children and a white lady, with a baby on her right arm and a bag in her left hand, obviously needing somebody to help them at least until they went up the long concrete stairs.介词短语with a baby on her ri...
... Smith complained to me that she found it simply impossible to
communicate with her sixteen years old daughter.后面的to communicate with her sixteen years old daughter 是不是也可以写成从句的形式、或者是doing的形式？
...ublished last December: Policymakers and the rest of us must engage
openly with the risk of global collapse. Researchers in many areas have
projected the widespread collapse as “a credible scenario (情景) this century”.
A survey of
scientists found that extreme weather events, food insecurit...
...ially concerned chancellor,trying to change lives for the better, complete with "reforms" to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.【参考译文】乍听上去, 这是这位心系社会的财政大臣...
...t Union of The Battleship Potemkin, film director Sergei Eisenstein worked with Austrian composer Edmund Meisel (1874-1930) on a musical score matching sound to image; the Berlin screenings with live music helped to bring the film its wide international fame.在这句话中” matching sound to imag...
...My parents thought all of this was a grand idea and
called Betsy’s dad with their permission.为便于理解，附整个段落如下：My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle
school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory. My best
friend Betsy’s father was a man...
...ery Sunday when we can purchase one drink and
get another free, and always
with a shared smile.2. Dancers and
choreographers seem to have the toughest time of it, earning the worst pay and with
the least education.3. I have watched, very carefully and with great respect, the theory and practice of s...
...periodically has given rise to such hypotheses as that of a companion star with a long-period orbit deflecting other bodies from their normal orbits, making some of them fall to Earth as meteors and causing widespread devastation upon impact.(1)”as that of a companion star with a long-period orbit...
In front of the chairs are deep sinks with a showerhead and long metal tube attached to the copper taps with screws, not that anyone seems to use them.请问：not that anyone seems to use them.是定语从句吗？怎么感觉好像少了些什么？
...oticed when you're moving cows that the old cows stand up to the dogs, but
with the drones, they've never done that,” he said, noting the drones move cows
faster, with less stress, than the dogs do.
我遇到一个问题：如何理解短文中直接引语(That's the one
thing I've noticed when ...
...理解B【寻求原文出处】Race walking shares
many fitness benefits with running, research shows, while most likely
contributing to fewer injuries. It does, however, have its own problem. Race walkers are
conditioned athletes. The longest track and field event at the Summer Olympics
is the 50-k...
used as a direct object with little or no meaning We hoofed it all the way back to camp. [=we walked all the way back to camp] We decided to rough it on vacation this year. [=to have our vacation somewhere where we would not have our normal comforts] living it up [=doin...