He held on to the back of a chair (他抓住椅背)(新牛津词典例句)Hold tight to the railing, or you'll slip and fall.(章振邦新编高级英语语法384页)我想不通，为什么以上2个例句，hold后面要用介词， 为什么不是直接抓住某个东西，加了介词to为何？
...erving that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up
and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would
interfere.两位小姐立刻请他来溜达，可是他谢绝了，说是她们俩所以要在屋子里踱来踱去，据他的想象，无非有...
...before好些呢？
2. We were great friends, but one day we quarrelled
and I never saw或had never seen him again.可是这句话为什么可以用过去完成时had never seen him
again，这并不是发生在we quarrelled之前呀？
...th was
positively resolved——nor did she much expect it would be asked; and fearful, on
the contrary, as being considered as intruding themselves needlessly long.然而Elizabeth下定决心反对再继续待下去——她也不期望他们再邀请她们住下去；相反地，她也很害怕，...
...l meaning of emotional (情感的) intelligence. Many people now misunderstand
emotional intelligence as almost everything desirable in a person’s makeup that
cannot be measured by an IQ test, such as character, motivation, confidence,
mental stability, optimism and “people skills.” Research h...
A spillage from an armoured van sparked a mad scramble - and police
arrests - on a US
motorway on Friday morning.Videos on social media show money raining down as people scramble to
pick up dollars strewn across the road.It happened on the Interstate 5 in California's
San Diego
county.上面这段...
...h in a wooden tub in the kitchen.Mothers
had to boil the water on the fire and carry it over to fill the tub. No wonder children could not jump into a
tub as they do today.老师：您好！最后一句理解上有疑惑：1）我的理解：难怪当初的孩子们不能像今天的孩子们一样...
...三，36课，a chance in a million 里有一句话： His unit was lost and all records of him had been destroyed. 他所在的部队被击溃，他所有的档案材料被毁于战火。 请教关于lost 这个词，应该怎么理解？如果是动词 lose 的过去分词，那么这里就用...
...es（主语）don't capture（谓语）everything（宾语）that's unique and
wonderful about ourselves（定语从句）.例2：We（主语）need（谓语）to understand
that we are all beautiful in our own way（宾语）, just like the
sky is beautiful in its own way（方式状语从句）....
...结合语境初步猜测短语动词在文章中的语义。Read the text and make predictions of meanings of pick up.My friend Steven picked up Chinese while he was living in China. Gradually he showed interest in Chinese and made much progress. Unfortunately,he has been ill for months,but he is p...
...想请教一下您The geologic timescale is marked by significant geologic and biological events, including the origin of Earth about 4.6 billion years ago, the origin of life about 3.5 billion years ago, the origin of eukaryotic life-forms (living things that have cells with true nuclei) about 1.5 ...
... happy with the school hours in Britain because school starts around 9 a.m.and ends about 3.30 p.m.This means I could get up an hour later than usual as schools in China begin before 8 a.m.▲句中的红色划线部分第一处 school 用的是单数，但第二处的 schools 却用的是复数。...
Last week Starwood, owner of St Regis, Westin and other brands, abandoned its original agreement with Marriott after Anbang, an ambitious Chinese insurer, led a group of investors bidding $13.2 billion in cash. 请问为什么是 led 而不是 leading？
There were hardly any trees on the islandand there was no water, but this did not prove to be a problem.原翻译为“……但这不算什么问题”，不应该翻译成“这被证明没有问题”吗?原句中为什么没用被动语态 this was not proved to be a problem?
...rea first for startup activity in America,based on the density of startups and new entrepreneurs.考夫曼基金会是一家追踪企业家精神的非盈利组织，根据创业公司和新企业家的密度，现在将迈阿密 - 劳德代尔堡地区列为美国创业活动的第一名。问题...