▲牛津词典中有 as it is 和 as it were 的用法,如下,可是却没有 as it was 的用法:as it is 照现状看;看样子: We were hoping to have a holiday next week as it is, we may not be able to get away.我们原来盼望着下星期放假--看样子走不了了.as it were ...
...t was the close of summer; (1)the
Adriatic was calm, (2)the
nights were lovely, (3)and
the Venetian women in the full enjoyment of those delicious spirits, that, in their climate, rise and fall with the
coming and the departure of the finest season of the year. Every day was given
by the...
There
were often odd jobs to be got about the fish-market. Once they each of them
earned a franc by loading trucks with innumerable boxes of oranges that had
been dumped down on the quay. One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the
boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in ...
...troduced gags of his own and was on most friendly terms with the pit. They were both as grotesque as the scenery, and that looked as if it had come out of a country-booth.
... two living-rooms was American, with easy chairs instead of tatami, and so were the kitchen and bathroom fittings. Dinner was Japanese, the family sitting on the floor in the traditional way. Breakfast was American, pancakes or bacon and eggs, taken at the kitchen table.taken at the kitchen table....
...icially a minority in California, amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters a decade ago.down是什么词性呢?down from这里是做定语修饰population吧?③Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has argued that many biological traits are no...
...terested desire of an establishment, cared not
how soon that establishment were gained.Sir
William and Lady Lucas were speedily applied to for their consent; and it was
bestowed with a most joyful alacrity. Mr. Collins's present circumstances made
it a most eligible match for their daughter, to whom...
...一下,比如说:as if引导的从句对过去虚拟it seemed as if he were studying我想知道的是:1.如果把were换成was是不是就变成了陈述语气而非虚拟语气2.如果把seemed改成seems,把were改成was是不是就变成虚拟语气了?3.were型虚拟对过去虚拟,...
题目:It's said that of the total population of Bolivia fully 80 per cent (live/lives) at an altitude of over 1,
0000ft.以上是出自《新编英语语法教程》里的一道题,标准答案给的是live;我的疑问在于:1.主语从句中的主语是“80 percent of the
total populatio...