A
voracious reader is a non-stop consumer of worlds. But ones interpretation of
these worlds morphs and shifts depending on the personal experiences one brings
into the reading. We identify with a characters pain because we’ve felt pain,
and so on. The beauty of rereading lies in the idea that our...
But executives also know that none of these ambitions are achievable without changing the way the business is run. While most companies have tried to address these issues by reducing management layers and focusing on the customer, few have been successful. One of the reasons is the inability to shif...
...Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many r...
Such statements are true to an extent. On one hand, it is true that the volatility of any crop is as sensitive to the weather as is the quality of the air we breathe. Thus, the agricultural industry is only successful in climates where growing conditions are relatively at optimum levels. On the...
...ness of his jealousy. He had not expected Strickland to take him up on the spot and make his preparations to go there and then; above all, he had not expected his wife's decision to go with him. I saw that now he wished with all his heart that he had held his tongue. He preferred the anguish of jeal...
...示的是对过去动作的主观猜测还是表示理论上的可能性？One
could have expected that it would be about then that the phrase would be coined我的思考是，首先句中could
have done应该不是情态动词could的非推测用法中表示假设意义的用法，因为我并未...
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the “Limits” study have found that its projections, so far, have been spot-on.
Only if we discuss
the consequences of our biophysical limits, the December warning letter says,
can we reduce their “likelihood, speed, severity and harm.” And yet messengers
of the coming turmoil are likely to...
... situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you...
...) If I could have used a bat with two hands, I could have killed the first one surely. （虚拟语气） 要是我能用双手抡起一根棒球棒，我准能把第一条鲨鱼打死。我疑惑的是为什么原句a)中if条件句使用了could have used ? 如何理解...
有个外国友人说"To have made that work, he should've done something more before."
这个to have made为什么不是to make？“make that work”不能发生在“do something more”之前啊？
附上完整的段落
Yes, I always thought it was very rushed with confused motives. That "whe...
...g with Math. BI have worked
as a keeper at the National Zoo for 11 years. Spot and Stripe are the
first tiger cubs (幼兽) that have ever been
born here. Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don’t make it to
adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.I’ve got two
c...
...darling, is that your papa?”“Yes; he’s my step-papa, and the dearest one that ever was. You understand now, don’t you, why I was able to laugh when you told me at the minister’s, not knowing my relationships, what trouble and worry papa’s and Uncle Abel’s scheme was giving you?”...