...phy and draw Chinese paintings. Then, switching continents again, why not visit the Old Castle? That’s in the left-hand corner, on the far side of the lake. If you’re lucky, you’ll see prince or princess there. It’s well worth a visit.
The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.这里的track翻译成什么合适？
A new, a noble role, and Evelyn Nixon was a fine example of it: the receiver, not the giver, of beautiful inventions. 这句话中的a new, a noble role是同位语成分？为什么可以写在句首？
...其…不如…”；“是…而不是…”，常可与“rather than或not so
much…as”互换使用。He is more
like a spear than anything
else.= He is like a spear rather than anything else.= He is
not so much like anything else as
like a spear.“与其说他（指大象）像别的什么...
The cave might never have been discovered had not the entrance been spotted by the distinguished French potholer, Berger. (NCE 3, L.42)在无连词条件从句中，not必须放在主语之后，而且不能使用-n't这种缩略形式。因此，上句是否应该改成...had the entrance...
下面是2009年的一道高考题，书上提供的答案是 not one，我想为什么不能是 no one 呢？Charles was alone at home, with ________ looking after him. (2009全国Ⅱ)A. someone B. anyone C. not one &...
Those who failed to get in need not have felt disappointed as many of
the artists who should have appeared did not come. (新概念英语2)请问老师们这里的not have…是什么用法? 与haven't有区别吗?
I have excluded him because,while his accomplishments may contribute to the solution of moral problems,he has not been charged with the task of approaching any but the factual aspects of those problems这句话主要是后半句如何理解？not...any but结构意思？