①We haven't worked this long just to see everything go up in smoke. 如果按表意，这里的语序是不是应该为：②We have worked this long not just to see anything go up in smoke.第一个句子用的everything，第二个句子就用anything，这个和not的位置有关系吗？
...ll attention. Consider doubling up these mundane tasks with a fun activity or some pleasant company. Enter business cards into your contact database on your laptop at the beach. Make phone calls from the hot tub or a park bench.
...ly a matter of politics, of course. Politics, after all, is concerned with influencing the institutions of the state and these are of limited use in affecting the culture. Not even the totalitarian state has been able to achieve the cultural goals it set itself, the democratic state is an even less ...
...句放在主句后面时。例如：Did you ask whether [= if] they were going? 你问过他们是否要去吗？（《韦氏高阶英汉双解词典》p.2384）I’m not sure whether / if I’ll have time. 我不敢肯定我是否会有时间。（摘自《牛津英语用法指南》第四版261.1...
...died on May 1st, the day before when he had looked pretty well.2. My uncle works on a farm, and in front of it there is a lake . My uncle works on a farm, in front of which there is a lake . 并列句读着都很顺嘴。第一句 the day before then 作时间状语。五月一的前...
The writing of a dictionary,
therefore, is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true
meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one's ability, what
various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer
of a dictionary is a historian, n...
...就业，努力稳住务工收入。We assisted on a priority basis poor
workers in securing jobs and poor rural migrant workers who had returned home
in finding new jobs, thus keeping rural residents’ incomes from nonagricultural
work stable.这句话读起来太别扭了，on
a priority basis ...
Men and women without work loiter in London's Trafalgar Square and pack soup kitchens in Paris.参考译文：在伦敦，男男女女的失业者在特拉法尔加广场上踟蹰；在巴黎，他们挤满了慈善施食处。这句话的主语是Men and women without work，这里应该看做...
One element in the acceptance of the plan was that the company was
selling essentially for the book value of its assets at that time the program
was introduced; therefore, an upward movement in its stock price was relatively
likely.请问这句话可以得出“the company was selling
essentially fo...
...ndmother had wanted to write a children’s book for many years, but one thing or another always got in the way. 简的祖母多年来一直想写一本儿童读物，但是一件接一件的事情总是妨碍她写书。请问句中的 one thing or another 是什么意思？上面的句子将它翻...
... keep it as simple as the arugula at the back
of my refrigerator. Mike Curtin sees my 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 foodand turns it into h...
...anation came a week later. It was about ten o' clock at night; I had been dining by myself at a restaurant, and having returned to my small apartment, was sitting in my parlour, reading I heard the cracked tinkling of the bell, and, going into the corridor, opened the door. Stroeve stood before me."...
▲表示做某事的习惯，英语多半是说 in the habit of doing sth，比如下面的句子：Are you in the habit of rising early? 你有早起的习惯吗?They were in the habit of giving two or three dinner parties a month. 他们每月举办两三次宴会，都成习惯了。▲我突发...