The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.这里的track翻译成什么合适?
...rtising aimed at children are limited,as most advertisements use emotional and indirect appeals to psychological states or associations.后半句怎么理解。appeal是名词,查了字典,作为名词“吸引力”的appeal并没有appeal to 的搭配
为什么[l]和[r]遇到[s][p][t][k]之后就从voiced变成voiceless了?In English,the sounds [l] and [r],which are usually voiced,are voiceless when they follow [s][p][t][k],as in slay,pray,tray,clay. 这是为什么?
A new, a noble role, and Evelyn Nixon was a fine example of it: the receiver, not the giver, of beautiful inventions. 这句话中的a new, a noble role是同位语成分?为什么可以写在句首?
This new “gig status” would be designed to protect flexible work (the reason people pursued gig work in the first place) while providing some economic protection, enabling them to weather financial shocks and provide a path to longer term economic stability.粗体的是并列 be designed吗?
... I tried to string
a sentence of Italian together, the locals smiled at me and praised my language
skills. That encouragement helped me to get through the language barrier. After
I made Italy my permanent home, I discovered how warm-hearted Italians are.
Neighbors will bring me freshly made cheese a...
...rought up to fear insects. We
regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good. We
continually wage war on them, for they contaminate our food, carry diseases, or
devour our crops. They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited
into our rooms on summer nights, or beat age...