...on participants as they completed tests of
creative thinking. They were randomly divided into four groups and exposed to
various noise levels in the background, from total silence to 50 decibels (分贝), 70 decibels,
and 85 decibels. The differences between most of the groups were statistically
ins...
...若后接动词，通常用动名词，有时也可用动词原形。如：Don’t do anything silly such as marry him. 不要做什么蠢事，比如说去嫁给他。Magicians often perform tricks such as pulling a rabbit out of a hat. 魔术师常常变从帽子里抓出兔子的戏法。问题...
...isten
to；在其他情况下只用 listen。例如：
What
sort of music do you like listening to? 你喜欢听什么类型的音乐？（摘自《朗文多功能英汉双解词典》第五版）
Stop
talking and listen to me. 不要讲话了，听我说。
They
were listening to the radio. 他...
...y arugula story all the time — but for him, it’s more like 12 boxes of donated strawberries nearing their last days. Curtin is CEO of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C., which recovers food and turns it into healthy meals. Last year it recovered more than 807,500 pounds of food by taking don...
...C representative
gave us some details, which somewhat interested me. After doing some research,
I believed that we could really do something for those kids. When I went online
to the OIC website, I saw pictures of the Iraqi children. Their faces were so
powerful in sending a message of their despair...
...安排孩子们上床睡觉之外，他在家里什么事都干。(1) He does everything in the house except put the children to bed.(2) He does everything in the house except putting the children to bed.(3) He does everything in the house but put the children to bed.(4) He does everything in the ho...
...是笑还是哭。3.在 Longman Group Limited
1985年出版的由英国 Randolph Quirk, Sindney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech 和 Jan Svartvik 四人合著的 A Comprehensive Grammar of
the English Language 第1053页（第15.6节）上有这样的例句：I asked them if they wanted MEAT or FISH.4.在...
...nbsp; It’s true that the number of men who have left work to do their thing as full-time parents has doubled in a decade, but it’s still very small: only 0.8% of married couples where the stay-at-home father was out of the labor force for a year. Even that percentage is likely inflat...
...re shopping for one, buying extra ___56___ (benefit) from price reductions
doesn’t make sense. Either your shopping is then too heavy to carry home
___57___ you can’t use what you’ve bought while it’s still fresh.Of course, shops are not
charities — they price goods in the way ___58___ wil...
...rning to walk, my wife and I have kept telling them that our sliding
glass door is just a window. The reason is obvious. If we admit it is a door, they’ll
want to go outside constantly. It will drive us crazy. The kids apparently know
the truth. But our insisting it’s merely a window has kept th...
...ing his bill. 他没有付账就走了。I’ m sorry for
breaking your window. 对不起，我打碎了你的窗户。第一句中的pay…用作介词without的宾语，所以要用动名词paying，不能原形pay，也不能用不定式to pay；第二句中的break…用作介词for的宾语，...
...略，是不是真的有这样的一个规则呢？类似的例子还有：Don’t give children more money than is necessary.补全形式是：Don’t give children more money than it is necessary to give them (give 的直接宾语money作为比较项，其成分被than充当了).He drove faster t...
My
father couldn't do a regular job. To make ends meet, he and I picked beans
every summer on farms. It was hard work, and they paid by the pound, not the
hour.Bottom
beans were harder to pick. My father and I alway picked on opposite sides of
the same row, and his constant, gentle reminders to “p...
...颁布的时间，而 since 1934 后面大概率讲的是《法案》颁布后的影响。为验证我们的“判断”，现在我们来细读一下since 1934后面的这个句子：Since 1934,
better than half a billion dollars has gone into that Fund to purchase more
than 5 million acres of habi...
...各种句子（从句），都分析一遍：1. 直接疑问句：Where do you live? （where 作地点状语）看答语：I live in Beijing. （where = in Beijing，地点状语）2. 名词性从句：I know where you live. —— I know you live in
Beijing. （where = in Beijing ，地点...