When
the doors of the Asile de Nuit were closed to them, Strickland and Captain
Nichols sought the hospitality of Tough Bill. This was the master of a sailors'
boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the stranded mariner
food and shelter till he found him a berth. They lived with ...
...够钱买所房子。Are we going to get there (=arrive) before the banks close? 银行关门之前,我们到得了吗?I’m going to fix up the house before my mother-in-law arrives. 我想在岳母来之前把房子装修一下。
...者L G Alexander和Reference Grammar for Students of English的编者R A Close等四位英国语言专家编写的English Grammatical Structure(Longman Group Limited,1975 )也说so as to可以放在句首,给出的例句是So as to be heard, he spoke through a microphone。(EGS,V17)A J T...
...et the whole campground know it. So instead of tying him up, I just kept a close eye on him. It worked — he didn’t end up in the creek. My three-year-old, however, did.翻译:我们的一些记忆很有趣,尤其是在我们的孩子很小的时候。有一次,我们沿着白垩溪露营...
...中。试比较:You might have told him that you would go to the movies alone. 你自己去看电影也该事先告诉他。He might have told her the news, I guess. 我想他也许已经把消息告诉她。不过,在实际运用中这种区别有时却是含蓄的。这时,我们就要结合...
...ut 92
milligrams, or almost 3% of it. To confirm that the worms’ chewing alone was
not responsible for the polyethylene breakdown, the researchers made some worms
into paste(糊状物) and applied it to
plastic films. 14 hours later the films had lost 13% of their mass—apparently
broken down by ...
...Like California’s Silicon Valley, the city had a good university working closely with a leading enterprise. In turn, this provided the basis for stimulating new entrepreneurial, research and academic activities.Although Italy’s deep south is not California, incentives provided by the European Un...
... swim early, for I had my ___28___. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and ___29___ those summer days with my father, who ___30___ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the ___31___ person not in swimsuit.&...
...le. So when it
looked as if my husband, Don, and I were going to be eating alone, it just
seemed natural to invite Justin, aninternational
student from China. A few days later Justin called to ask if he might invite
two of his student friends - one from Korea, one from Iran. The more, the
merrier."T...
...something
doing something”。例如:Often he found her
quietly weeping alone.他常常发现她独自默默流泪。(2)作“to be in a particular state or do a particular
thing, or to realize that this is happening, especially when you did not expect
or intend it 发现,发觉【尤指无...