... past year was, in essence, in a statistical tie with 2016 for the hottest on record, with temperatures driven upward by the warming effects of human activities that spew carbon and other greenhouse compounds into the atmosphere.从本质上讲，过去的一年与2016年是有记录以来最热的...
The house he built was a spacious one. There was a courtyard in front of the place and two gardens in back, one to provide vegetables, one to delight the eye in the formal Japanese fashion. One of the two living-rooms was American, with easy chairs instead of tatami, and so were the kitchen and bath...
...lipping the hedge? 你把树篱剪完了吗? The law forbids building on this land. 法律规定禁止在此处进行修建。Your duties include typing letters and answering the phone. 你的职责是打信件和接电话。但是很少见到动名词的否定式作宾语，有这样的用法...
...人称单数形式。There exists some new problems such as being dishonest.（误）There exist some new problems such as being dishonest.（正）但是，我在国外的一些文章里也能发现there exists这样的句子：1. Surely there exists some clever Silicon Valley counse...
In an assessment leaked to the press on Monday, the IMF figured that in 2020, Greece might end up with the same level of debt is has today.参考译文：IMF 周一透露给媒体的一份评估中预测，到2020年希腊的债务水平可能只会降到目前水平。句子出自《时代周刊》...
The original floor plan was very simple.The living room was in the front of the house, with windows looking out towards the street.You also had two bedrooms, um, a bathroom, and a kitchen.Everything was onone floor.请问老师，如何理解短语look out toward? 以及这里的现在分词属于...
...好！我看到一个句子，觉得特别有意思，The amount of
water on earth has not changed for billions of years, but the ratio of fresh to
salt water has. 后面的句子，把changed省掉了，这是承前省略，可是其中的the ratio of
fresh to salt water 确正和它相反，the ra...
...师，关于whne/while/as使用，以下句子困惑： 1)
书上原句 It was
snowing when they went to school.我改成It
snowed when they went to school. 是否正确？ 2)
书上原句 My mum
was cooking while my dad was reading a newspaper.我改成My
mum was cooking when/as my dad was readin...
...You know, daddy, sometimes when I don't want to eat something, Mommy
feeds it to me like it was an airplane.
And I like that.—That's very sweet, Auggie, but daddy's a little too old for Mommy to
feed him.请问最后一个him用在这里对吗？去掉him可以吗？为什么？比如这句：Th...
...国可燃冰试采获得成功进行了报道。其中有个句子如下：It’s thought that there is as much as 10
times the amount of gas in methane hydrates than in shale for instance.有老师在微信公众号发文，呼吁BBC把这个句子改一改。因为，than前面应该出现比较...
Thoreau also went to build a cabin on Walden Pond and lived there in a very simple manner for a little over two years. 请问：in a very simple manner for a little 是什么意思？
Provided we don't hit any standing water or fallen trees, we shall emerge
unscathed on the shoulder of highway five. (《达芬奇密码》节选）只要不遇上死水潭或者倒下来的树什么的，我们就可以安然无恙地把车开到五号高速公路上。 请教老师：em...
...me that creator says was inspired by Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone on sale in Moscow.A. whichB. whoseC. whoD. what参考答案为 B提问whose引导的是否为嵌入式关系分句？那为何whose不在宾语从句中充当成分？
The University
of Adelaide employs a
full-time staff of fire prevention professionals. They inspect all campus
buildings and test and maintain all sprinkler（喷水灭火装置）systems, fire alarms, and
fire extinguishers （灭火器）. They also provide educational programs on fire
safety in ...