...He is geared up to play the match.与He is gearing up for the holiday.在这两个句子中 gear up做短语动词，那后面的不定式与介词短语是否可以看作状语？另外 gear up是否可以做不及物的词组使用呢？例如用于祈使句， Gear up! 准备...
Those of us who pushed for the bill will consider ourselves most successful if it acts as an incentive not to have it invoked in the first place如果这项法令能激励人们维护传统道德观念，而不是首先考虑要付诸法律，对簿公堂，那我们这些奋力推进这一法令...
Steve Jobs liked to describe computers as "bicycles for the
mind"—tools that let humans do things faster and more efficiently than
their bodies would allow.
史蒂芬·乔布斯常把计算机比喻成“大脑的自行车”，因为这一工具能提高人们做事的效率。（这一工具可...
Certainly, some felt that
the time had come to find out once and for all the alphabetic powers of the Chinese script, if any were hidden in its
folds.这里的alphabetic power和folds如何更为准确地理解和翻译呢？
There's so much bad, so much not fun going on," said ringleader
Dave Selkirk, a 40-year-old personal trainer. "It's nice to do something
just for the sake of it."这句话的so much bad .not fun后面是不是有省略？fun做形容词后面加现在分词？是不是fun后面有省略？
这里的背景是介绍旅游时可以去什么地方，然后一一列举这些地方：time share apartment: accommodation which one owns, say, a 26th part of
and so has the right to stay there
for 2 weeks every year.这里and so是什么用法，后面has为什么没有主语？
...3个问题：1、下题究竟要过去时还是完成时？ -- Your name again? I'm sorry I _________(not catch) it. -- Will Smith.2、Great changes have taken place in our hometown since 2010. 有人认为此句是错误的，因为句中have take place 为短暂性动...
all用于复数名词后作同位语是完全没有问题的。如：The trees are all in bud. 树都在发芽。The children have all got colds. 孩子们都感冒了。They are all American citizens. 他们都是美国公民。请问all也可以用于不可数名词后面作同位语吗？
Nowadays,phones are more advanced than this brick.老师，than是有介词与连词的词性，为什么than引导这个句子是省略了的状语从句（than phones of this brick are)；为什么不把它看成是than的介词短语作状语，这样理解不是更好理解吗？than引导的状...
...子出自2020年新高考全国卷（山东卷），原文上下文为：For some moments, John said nothing, but, suddenly,
he sprang to his feet and cried, “I have a great idea! I have a solution that
we can all help accomplish (完成).The other children also jumped up all
attention. When John ...
... to enjoy our dinner together.3. The sun (having) set,we had to stop there for the night.4. Our luggage (having) arrived,l was dressed in a few minutes.查阅葛传椝惯用法词典，gone,come,arrived都可以作为形容词，但是，手头词典没有查到set作为形容词，表示“太阳...
... today by 2% prompting speculation that the company will post poor profits for the second quarter running.2. The graph shows the number of cars per 100 people over the period 1980 to 2020 relative to the grwoth of the world's population.
...ounting scientific evidence has convinced many experts that there is cause for concern.看起来划线部分是在修饰proof，为什么可以跨越谓语动词修饰呢？②New techniques in thermal-scanning photography, a process that records radiation from surface areas, have made it possible t...