Darwin argued that as a coral reef grew up from a sinking island, it would become a fringing reef, then a barrier reef, and finally, with the disappearance of the island, an atoll.an atoll好奇怪，是同位语吗？
I was invited indoors, seated at the breakfast
table with the family and given a delicious
breakfast , as much as I could eat.问：as much as I could eat.这整个是一个短语用逗号隔开作方式状语吗？还是一个什么从句，其中as I could eat.是不是一个定语从句先行词...
1：课文注释这个语法点，好像很少见，是不是写成：old and new pupils of the school 就是错误的呢？2：We shall all
remember 的all是修饰remember还是修饰we的呢？3：as引导的是定语从句吗？就是修饰一整句话：one is never too old to learn，即：one...
Having my brother and his wife living nearby was an ideal arrangement
for our family.主语是一个从句，这个从句不太理解是怎么构成的?Having sb living 这个为什么用having 形式，为什么living 用ing 形式？
...他们更青睐好消息。(2016全国卷Ⅲ阅D)Do newborns simply
prefer more to fewer? 新生婴儿只是更喜欢多的而不喜欢少的？(2013全国卷Ⅰ阅B) That is why fish
prefer shallow water to deep water because the former is warmer. 这就是为什么鱼喜欢浅水而不喜欢深水...
...e in the state of rest when your eyes are closed, your body is not active, and
your mind is unconscious，所以 sleep
late 的实际意思是“睡眠的状态持续到很晚的时候”，也就是说它表示的不是“睡得晚”，而是“起得晚”或“睡懒觉”。比如：
sleep lat...
There was a silence. The evening darkenedin the room. Noiselessly, and with silver feet, the shadows crept in from thegarden. The colours faded wearily out of things.
句中 out of things 是什么用法？什么意思？
有这样一个句子，句中的sleep rough 被翻译成“露宿街头”，它是这个意思吗？There are thousands like him in Los Angeles, begging on the streets and sleeping rough. 洛杉矶有数以千计像他这样的人，沿街乞讨，露宿街头。
The river and the nutrients it brings also support the world’s biggest inland fishery, accounting for a quarter of the global freshwater catch, feeding tens of millions of people.各位老师能否给分析一下这个句子的结构，accounting for 是什么成分，谢谢！
If we are successful, in one great step our two nations will have been able to ease one of the greatest sources of tension in international affairs: that between the developed and developing worlds.