...rfowl
(水禽) were killed at
the hands of market hunters and a handful of overly ambitious sportsmen.
Millions of acres of wetlands were dried to feed and house the ever-increasing
populations, greatly reducing waterfowl habitat (栖息地). 【翻译】当探险家们第一次踏上北美大陆时...
The rise of Parlor comes with Americans divided over whether they want social media firms to do more to keep their sitesfree from misinformation and calls for violence, or should the internet be a place for all speech.1) 这里的divided是过去分词作后置定语吗？为什么不说成with divi...
...word, being relatively permanent, can communicate to numbers of like minds over centuries, television is relatively ephemeral and communicates, using both pictures and words, to millions of unlike minds at the same moment in time. Moreover television appeals not only to those who can read but to tho...
... kids while she was waiting for the car service.I asked my husband to take over cooking dinner and then started my car.
As I was driving to my destination, fog formed and thickened. After picking up
the kids, I had to drive in thick fog.The children were my responsibility and I couldn't help but be ...
...
next stop. Still, the boy kept ___47___ (ride). He was carrying something over
his shoulder and shouting. Finally, when we came to the next stop, the boy ran
up to the door of the bus. I heard an excited conversation. Then the driver
stood up and asked, “___48___ anyone lose a suitcase at the las...
... moving. The change has not happened overnight. For years, some specialists have had an ___5___ feeling that bed rest was not the answer. But what finally put an end to ___6____ bed rest was a study of more than 200 patients who were treated for back pain in a clinic in Taxes. Not only did...
...ound the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank
hanging overthe side, covering the rusty hull with paint. It was a situation
that must have appealed to Strickland's sardonic humour. I asked Captain
Nichols how he bore himself during these hardships."Never
knew him say a cross wor...
...h language schools in this country INCREASED from 66 000 in 2008 to just over 84 000 in 2009.这个国家英语语言学校的学生人数从 2008 年的 66 000 增长到 2009 年的 84 000 多一点。■ Student numbers SHOT UP/ INCREASED DRAMATICALLY in 2009.学生人数在 2009 年急剧...
... white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself."Who is that? the new arrival asked St.Peter. "On, that's God, came the reply, but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor.The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, the...
...想到要在互联网上做广告。He kept turning the idea of resigning over in his mind. 他心里来回掂量着辞职的事。She hated hospitals and didn’t like the idea of having an operation. 她讨厌医院，也不想做手术。我记得曾经在哪本高中英语教材上见到过 idea...
...tal population of Bolivia fully 80 per cent (live/lives) at an altitude of over 1,
0000ft.以上是出自《新编英语语法教程》里的一道题，标准答案给的是live；我的疑问在于：1.主语从句中的主语是“80 percent of the
total population of Bolivia”这个名词词组...
...杆),
I fell onto the stones, damaging a nerve in my hand, and Toby came over,
helping me up: Safe, man. Safe. A few minutes later, when I landed the trick,
my friends beat their boards loud, shouting: “Safe! Safe! Safe!” And that’s
what mattered—landing tricks, being a good skater.上面一...
...很有疑惑：①.The strike by academics,librarians and administrators over proposal to radically restrucere their pension, which the University and College Union claims will cost satff $ 10,000a year after retirement, are shcheduled to resatrt next week at about 60 universities. ...
He stopped suddenly and stared fixedly up over my head into the air. The lamp beat upon his face, and so intent was it and so still that it might have been that of a clear-cut classical statue, a personification of alertness and expectation.为什么是and so intent was it，倒装？ 为什么不...