The devastating floods and droughts that imposed a recurrent tax of suffering on the fellahin no longer occur.参考译文为：过去不断给农民带来灾难的水旱灾害，现在不再发生了。请问为什么没有把devastating和 a recurrent tax of 直译出来呢？
...like Russian rock and Australian country
music.2
Rock has had an influence on popular music, transforming the very concept of
what popular music is.请问老师：1
以上两个句子的现在分词短语都是做状语吗？2
leading的逻辑主语看不太懂；transforming的逻辑主语是Rock...
“It's polite,"said the Queen, "to say thank you for all this information."="It's polit to say thank you for all this information," said the Queen.0to say thank you for all this information；句子中 thank you for…… 前面省略了to吗？
...amount of goods transported by water was constant from 1974 to
1978, where it showed an exponential growth, rising to almost 60 million tonnes
after which it plateaued for about 20 years before starting to rise gradually
again.①where引导的非限制定语从句是作插入语吗？修饰的是...
...es trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns.这句话中 President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a saving-account mode 是什么意思? 如何理解？求解!
English is a language in which meaning depends to a large extent on the order of words.英语中好像有一条规则是，什么样的东西可以有什么东西，什么样的东西不可以有什么东西。那么就是这样的逻辑总是使我认为，单词words不可以有order，因为单...
The walkers in front crossed the ledge easily, seemingly oblivious of the fact that there was a 3000-foot drop on either side.句子的后半句oblivious of ……形容词短语放开头，语法上怎么解释？
The idea of choosing a referendum on the deal so as to break the logjam in Parliament, as this newspaper would like, is far fetched. But then, so much about him is.
Now that we have some space on the disk, we need to add some machinery
higher up in the system in order to support swapping pages to and from the
disk.
请教各位老师，higher up是修饰介词短语in the system，还是名词machinery呢？
The banker-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor-who is
which depending on whether the customer's account is in credit or is overdrawn.请问这个句子中 who 的先行词是什么呢？新概念的解释是 creditor-who 中的-为连接符，这个 who 后面引导的是定语从...
...aw him suddenly pull back his left hand, which had been resting carelessly on the arm of the chair. But not before Mr. Budd had seen the misshapen thumbnail.如何理解But not before在此句中表达的意思？
While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well regarded writing since then has sought to capture spoken English on the page. Equally, in poetry, the highly personal, performative genre is the only form that could claim real li...
老师好！我看到这样一个句子：He concentrated on producing fabulously high-quality products, making
them status symbols synonymous with luxury . 请问这里的making them
status symbols synonymous with luxury 是定语还是状语，为什么？谢谢！