...ors (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a news fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation.红色部分的15年 “指的是开采的开始这一整个阶段一共15年” 还是 “开采开始后的15年呢”?
...mp. [=we walked all the way back to camp] We decided to rough it on vacation this year. [=to have our vacation somewhere where we would not have our normal comforts] living it up [=doing exciting and enjoyable things; spending money freely while enjoying life] She offer...
... past year was, in essence, in a statistical tie with 2016 for the hottest on record, with temperatures driven upward by the warming effects of human activities that spew carbon and other greenhouse compounds into the atmosphere.从本质上讲，过去的一年与2016年是有记录以来最热的...
The house he built was a spacious one. There was a courtyard in front of the place and two gardens in back, one to provide vegetables, one to delight the eye in the formal Japanese fashion. One of the two living-rooms was American, with easy chairs instead of tatami, and so were the kitchen and bath...
...lipping the hedge? 你把树篱剪完了吗? The law forbids building on this land. 法律规定禁止在此处进行修建。Your duties include typing letters and answering the phone. 你的职责是打信件和接电话。但是很少见到动名词的否定式作宾语，有这样的用法...
...人称单数形式。There exists some new problems such as being dishonest.（误）There exist some new problems such as being dishonest.（正）但是，我在国外的一些文章里也能发现there exists这样的句子：1. Surely there exists some clever Silicon Valley counse...
In an assessment leaked to the press on Monday, the IMF figured that in 2020, Greece might end up with the same level of debt is has today.参考译文：IMF 周一透露给媒体的一份评估中预测，到2020年希腊的债务水平可能只会降到目前水平。句子出自《时代周刊》...
The original floor plan was very simple.The living room was in the front of the house, with windows looking out towards the street.You also had two bedrooms, um, a bathroom, and a kitchen.Everything was onone floor.请问老师，如何理解短语look out toward? 以及这里的现在分词属于...
Well, it’s official, the so-called Google-phone is coming to T-mobile stores nationwide starting Oct. 22nd. Here is what it is. The phone actually isn’t manufactured by Google’s going to be made by a company called HTC, but it does run on an operating system that was developed by Google called...
VOA:The Turkeys are driven to a hotel in downtown Washington the w-hotel.During a suite they are fed corn and blueberries and prepare for a photo shoot on the roof.After that it's off to the White House.为什么在套房里用介词during: During a suite ?
...好！我看到一个句子，觉得特别有意思，The amount of
water on earth has not changed for billions of years, but the ratio of fresh to
salt water has. 后面的句子，把changed省掉了，这是承前省略，可是其中的the ratio of
fresh to salt water 确正和它相反，the ra...
Jonas had told them how the meat that was taken out of pickle would often be found sour, and how they would rub it up with soda to take away the smell, and sell it to be eaten on free-lunch counters; also of all the miracles of chemistry which they performed, giving to any sort of meat, fresh or sa...
...ian corn was growing, and some of the ears were plucked to show us. First, one leaf
or sheath was picked off, then another, a third, a fourth, and so on, as if a fruit
seller were unpacking his papers; and
at last we came, in the inside, to the grains of corn, packed into cucumber shapes of
pale gol...
Thoreau also went to build a cabin on Walden Pond and lived there in a very simple manner for a little over two years. 请问：in a very simple manner for a little 是什么意思？