He looked like all the tramps who came to our house from hobo camp by the river during the Great Depression. His shaggy hair hung below a shapeless hat, and his threadbare shirt and trousers had been rained on and slept in.问题：请问had been rained on and slept in什么意思？been rained on...
Such dimensions of read suggest-as others introduced later in the book will also do-that we bring an implicit (often unacknowledged) agenda to any act of reading. 这个句子对我来说挺难理解的，里面有好几个问题：1.这里的“-”是引出的同位语吗？英语中的“-...
Professors have to tell us what books they'll definitely need again
next semester, and the deadline for them to let us know isn't for a couple of
days.请教一下曹老师，the deadline 是一个时间点，for a couple of days 是持续一段时间。表语应当呈现主语的性质或者为主...
前面有网友针对 They showed him lowering his head, with guards on both sides. 这一句提出了“英语有show sb doing sth 的用法吗”的疑问，看了老师的解答，很有收获，但我还有一个问题没有弄明白，特来再次请教专家老师！我的疑问是：以下四...
...的视频上的祝福语为Wishing everyone an amazing year to come during these days of
celebration。但中国日报双语新闻（公众号）2018年2月15日的《我一定是今天第一个用英语跟你拜年的人》一文中，有关祝福语为：Wish your family happiness. (阖家欢乐)W...
on 有一个特别常见的用法；on the group, on the staff. 剑桥词典中这样解释这个用法； "on" used to show when someone is a member of a group or organization: 按字面的理解是说on表明某人是某个组织成...
... apologize. 更糟的是他拒不道歉。To make matters worse, my friend then lost her keys. 更为糟糕的是，我的朋友又弄丢了她的钥匙。Only 300 people came to the match and to make things worse, the floodlights went out during the second half. 只有区区 300 人来看比赛，...
辅导班的一道题：
The girl _______ (joke) when she said there was no milk left.
A. joked B. was joking
我根据《麦克米伦高阶英汉双解词典》中 joke 词条的 be joking（开玩笑）中的例句：
I thought he was joking when he said he'd resigned. 他说他已...
"Given all of these exceptions that Donald Trump represents, he may well shatter patterns of history that have held for more than 150 years, lose this election even if the historical circumstances favor it," Lichtman said. 想问其中lose this election even if the historical circumstances...
A big part of still-life painting is the use of those kinds of symbols. The objects you include can provide more contacts than help convey your message.请问老师，如何理解than?