... you for
tuition fees?” Now I knew I had fallen into a cultural trap. At once I
explained that in the Chinese tradition, a teacher is highly esteemed in
society. In Chinese hospitals, for instance, a medical doctor or veteran nurse
was often addressed as teacher to express the respect of him or he...
...f climbers imported a Swiss guide into the Lake District, and on the first morning, surveying the misty peaks before him, he pointed to a ledge about two thirds of the way up one of them and suggested that the party should spend the night there. up在句中做什么成分，是和two thirds of...
...cause it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.And he went back to meet the fox."Goodbye," he said."Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one ca...
...of help. When she had
time, she would bring food and medicine to them. One morning she told her
children about a family she had visited the day before. There was a man sick in
bed, his wife, who took care of him and could not go out to work, and their little
boy. The little boy—his name was Bernar...
...The
domineering people are obstacles to good conversation with everyone. Once
everyone realizes who that character is—for lack of a better term, the bore at
the party—everyone becomes in cahoots with derailing him.”And what
about that other dinner-party killer: awkward silence?“If you’re
f...
...800 B.C. has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. The only way to do this was to operate....
...p;ever better than what he gains.究竟是ever better than 还是even better than? 我看有人说ever不能修饰比较级，但书中写的是ever。2.Many countries have laws limiting what use employers and insurance companies can make of such information(information是指DNA...
...patches of 应该加上 greens 才对？[可数名词](British English) an area of grass, especially in the middle of a town or village （尤指城镇或村庄中心的）草地，草坪，公共绿地Children were playing on the village green.孩子们在村中心的草地上玩耍。
...his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, emerged from two hours of talksTuesday morning pledging to continue efforts to strengthen the growing partnership between the two countries ，and to work together to address global chall...
...were more animal than human and covered in orange fur, and were too savage even to be conquered by the Romans, so would soon be walled off in their perpetual winter.书中的中文翻译为：除了北边的爱尔兰，没有地方比这更冷了。 可是我自己的理解怎么也和这翻译对...
...llagers, but it was not returned to him. Three months passed, and then one
morning, Sam found his wallet outside his front door. It had been wrapped up in
newspaper andit contained half the money he had lost, together with a note
which said: 'A thief, yes, but only 50 per cent a thief!' Two months ...
...SCO members, committed to the Shanghai Spirit, have joined hands to fight against the virus and upheld regional development and stability. committed to the Shanghai Spirit 是插入语还是状语，我理解应该是现在分词才对吧。此处的逻辑主语是 SCO members
The hearing is scheduled to______ tomorrowmorning at eleven.这里为什么用take place而不是用be present呢？因为hearing在词典中的解释就有用到present这个词。hearing: an official meeting at which the facts about a
crime,complaint,etc.are presented to the person or group of pe...