Just before I left the hospital, I came
across two young women in their thirties, both with small children and both
with cancer. I thought, well, what am I worrying about, because my children are
grown up and independent. If I can get this right for myself and make some sort
of peace with it, then t...
...如：He does everything in the house except put / putting the children to bed.(摘自英国 Randolph Quirk 等人合著的 A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language 9.58节) 除了安排孩子们上床睡觉之外，他在家里什么事都干。She’s not interested in anything except skiin...
...ght have left. (不可以用may have left)It was 2 o'clock. She should be having a meeting.She would come the next day, he guessed.新概念英语第二册第47课中有这么一句话He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghoust must have drunk the night before. When...
...ool as/that he was,
completely ruined the dinner('... since he was a fool, being a
fool...')这一句是引自Quirk的1972版的“A
Grammar of contemporary English”第750页，表原因或是评论。这句话在1985版上删除了，取而代之的是这句（p1107）：Clumsy idiot that he was,...
Her
enquiries after her sister were not very favourably answered. Miss Bennet had
slept ill, and though up, was very feverish and not well enough to leave her
room. Elizabeth was glad to be taken to her immediately; and Jane, who had only
been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience, f...
... straight-A students select an easy passing
course, it may give him or her benefit in the short-term, but in the long-term
it would be harmful to his or her further development. When encountering a
complex problem related to knowledge of the difficult course, the young people
maybe regret the former...
老师您好！The
rough across the plain soon became so bad that we tried to get Bruce to drive
back to the village we had come from. Even though the road was littered with
boulders and pitted with holes, Bruce was not in the least perturbed. Glancing
at his map, he informed us that the next villag...
.... I presumed that Strickland knew what had happened, for
someone must have been to see him from the police, and he must have made his
statement. I did not know where he was. I supposed he had gone back to the
shabby attic which served him as a studio. It was curious that she should not
wish to see h...
... have told you these details about the asteroid, and made a note of its number
for you, it is on account of the grown-ups and their ways. When you tell them
that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about
essential matters. They never say to you, “What does his voice sound ...
...Ecotourism is commonly regarded as low impact (影响) travel to
undisturbed places.请问 undisturbed places 如何翻译才是通顺的，这个句完整的翻译是怎样的？附完整原文：Ecotourism
is commonly regarded as low impact (影响)
travel to undisturbed places. It is different fr...
The adobe dwellings (土坯房) built by the Pueblo
Indians of the American Southwest are admired by even the most modern of
architects and engineers. In addition to their simple beauty, what makes the
adobe dwellings admirable is their ability to “air condition” a house without using
electric e...
...good sportsman in his youth. 他年轻时是运动健将。She was a great beauty in her youth. 她在年轻时是个大美人。(3)表示“青年人”，有两种用法：a. 用作个体名词（可数），主要用来指男青年而不指女青年。如：As a youth he was on the school team. ...