Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we did not know for sure? That the evidence was inconclusive, the science uncertain?请问老师,最后一句the science uncertain是有什么省略吗?这是什么语言现象?
见到过 take turns to do sth 和 take turns doing sth。两种用法都存在吗?若是,两者有什么区别? 在现代英语用法词典上还看到有 take turns at doing sth。如: The lawyers take turns at reading the Bible. 还有一种 take turns in doing sth。如: We took turns ...
...I'll pay you for everything and we
can make plans again. 划线部分如果只能 otherwise 和 if not 二选一,选哪个呢?我的语感告诉我应该是if not,但是无论从英文还是中文角度我都不能很好的解释这个问题,请各位老师解答。附带一个查到的在BB...
对于 Thank you very much. 这是没问题的,句中的 thank 是动词,用副词 very much 来修饰动词,非常正常!但 Thanks very much. 则问题就大了。句中的 thanks 应该是名词吧?但为什么用 very much 来修饰呢?这个句应如何分析?其中的 very much ...
I can arrive home on time. / I could arrive home on time then.
I can have arrived home. / I could have arrived home.
老师,我们最近学到情态动词的用法,有点学懵了。首先,情态动词,如can, wil,l may 都有各自的过去式 could, would, might,也就是说在...
在学习if从句的虚拟语气时有些疑惑,看到if were to do表示对将来的虚拟,例如:If I were to tell the truth to my boyfriend, he would kill me! 但是,为什么不能说If I told the truth to my boyfriend, he would kill me! 再比如:If he were to graduate on sc...
... much as his own, and a sister's partiality is not
misleading me, I think, when I call Charles most capable of engaging any
woman's heart. With all these circumstances to favour an attachment and nothing
to prevent it, am I wrong, my dearest Jane, in indulging the hope of an event
which will secure ...