...ources, but people rarely act
in a rational way as predicted when handling with those sources.请问这句话act as是作充当，担任的意思吗，但是后面又跟了个动词。如果以as开始作为一个新句子来看的话，好像也没法翻译。
...不同的词典中都具备这样一种释义：“happening
or existing within a group；occurring in or shared or practiced by (some
members of a community)；used
to say that many people in a group have the same feeling or opinion, or that
something affects many people in a group”我通过该...
Tom, a sometime delivery driver, lives with his mother.1. a sometime delivery driver放在Tom的后面，是作什么成分呢？2. a sometime delivery修饰driver，delivery和driver都是名词，两个名词可以挨在一起写吗？
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Mary wasn't the only elephant who proved handy with a hose. A youngster
named Anchali developed two different techniques for interrupting the flow of
water through the hose- and thus, Mary's showers.最后这个Mary's showers是不是有省略？感觉很怪。