“查词典”用 look up something inthe dictionary, look up something in a dictionary 肯定是可以的。但对于 look up the dictionary, look up a dictionary 呢？有的人说它不符合英语习惯，也有人说完全可以这样用。请专家老师说说看法，谢谢！
Falls in marginal tax rates in American since the 1970s have made it all the more profitable to work longer.自20世纪70年代美国降低了边际税率以来，人们延长劳动时间变得越发核算了。老师，the more profitable不清楚这是什么用法，他做什么成分呢，为什...
中文：我问护士我儿子的恢复情况如何英文：I asked the nurse how my son was progressing问：how my son was progressing怎么解释？一般不是“how+adj/adv+主语+系动词”吗？可以改成??I asked the nurse how progressing my son was
When I was a tiny baby crying all nightWhen I was two running through the fieldWhen did Orson Welles tell people about aliens from Mars landing on the
earth？这三个句子里的crying，running和landing是做什么成分？
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few和so few相当于few，表示否定。例如：Only
few(或So few) ofthem care to
sing a song. 接着又说：only
a few, but a few相当于few，表示否定。例如：Only
a few people were present at the meeting.读了上述文字后，我感到有点困惑：1. 怎么从来没见过only
f...
Are todays modern technological innovations like those ofthe past, which made obsolete the job of buggy maker, but created the job of automobile manufacturer?句中which made obsolete the job of buggy maker，怎样理解，这是什么结构呀？obsolete是adj.做宾补的话为什么放宾语前...
下面一句出自章振邦主编《新编高级英语语法》第652页：The boy was run over by a motor car, as often happened in holiday season. 这里的 in holiday season 为什么不加冠词呢？比如说成 inthe holiday season。
The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman wrote that in modern life, there is always a suspicion … that one is living a lie or a mistake; that something crucially important has been overlooked, missed, neglected, left untried and unexplored; that a vital obligation to one’s own authentic self has not been ...
...I were mad. (表示假疯，从句用were 为何不用had been？)He stood there looking at the train and laughing, as if to miss train was the best joke inthe world. (显然这句话的从句也是虚拟，从句was为何不是改用had been) 主句是过去时态，从句表示非真实情...
...让我认识到我对worry about有误解:The next technique is to write your draft rapidly without worrying about being perfect.显然，worry about指的是担心后面的名词 向不好的方向发展。那么，下面的表述正确吗？Worry about being late。是担心迟到，还是担心...
...游泳俱乐部和美术俱乐部。这个句子应该是下面哪一句?There are many clubs in my school, such as basketball club, swimming
club and art club.There are many clubs in my school, such as the basketball club, the
swimming club and the art club.这个名词前需要加 the 吗？还是...
In fact , one serious side ofthe exhibition is that organisers also want to show that video gaming is an important industry, employing many skilled people.这里的employing 怎么分析呢？逻辑主语是组织者吗？
A(主语)B（谓语）the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding , dominant puritan tradition in American intellectual life.解析说：红色的是宾语，绿色的是宾语的后置定语，为啥这后置定语之间要加个逗号，这是什么语法知识呢？