..."Where is Mr. Kafir?"Sophie shook her head regretfully. "He has left for the day." She smoothed the front of her dress with the palms of soft, clever hands. "Can I help you in some way?" Her eyes were dark and moist."Yes," Rhys said. "Find him."She f...
... anxiously over the phone. It's after midnight.One of our hospice patients has just died at home, and her husband is
threatening to shoot himself if the funeral home shows up."Has the funeral home been called?" I ask."No," she says.It was her suggesting such a call that had set him off."Does he have...
...on's inability to make friends.
他们为儿子不善交友而发愁。The book's weakness is the author's inability to sustain an
argument. 该书的缺点在于作者未能把论证展开。(2) disability用例：The athletes have overcome a physical disability to reach the top of
their sport. 这...
...king to agreed with me
that it was, in his words, “a brilliantly written book”. However, he
then went on to talk about Mr Obama in a way which suggested he had no idea of
his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to abook liar. 上面的内容是2013年高考英语全国卷Ⅰ阅读C...
"No, no, sir; no, notagainst you!" It was a woman's voice, and Mrs. Barrymore, paler and more horror-struck than her husband, was standing at the door. Her bulky figure in a shawl and skirt might have been comic were itnot for the intensity of feeling upon her face.请教老师...
...t I realised that much which would have seemed horrible to most people did not in the least affect him. Strickland was distinguished from most Englishmen by his perfect indifference to comfort; it did not irk him to live always in one shabby room; he had no need to be surrounded by beautiful things....
... sufficient jobs in the world-saving fields,but in the current slowdown ithas become evident that there never are enough promising jobs,presumably never will be,that require a higher education " 我想问的是，最后一句话为什么是用"that"而不是"which"，不是非限制定语从句...
... have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of
encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as may
convince you of its being one." "You
must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my
addresses is merely words of course. My reasons for believ...
...由一批干练的政治家领导。He’s an able politician, but he’s not
one of us. 他是个能干的政治家，但他不是我们自己人。The leader stepped aside to allow an
able young woman to be elected. 这位老领导人退下来，让一位年轻能干的妇女当选。2.用作表...
1. That you are beautiful is true.2. My opinion is that you should not go alone.3. The reason that he didn't come is clear.4. I say that I know it.5. The great thing about a computer notebookis that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier. 有的人说前三...
...we remember the
story every time men pretend to be something that they are not.he could see some story with the
light of gold in it. 这里的story为什么没有用复数形式？