...t of the things Hugh loves: butter, potatoes, rice, beer, milk, chocolate; and sweets. Yesterday I paid him a visit. I rang the bell and was not surprised to see that Hugh was still as fat as ever. He led me into his room and hurriedly hid a large parcel under his desk. It was obvious that he was ve...
...an add-on. “It is absolutely necessary. The future depends on creativity and
creativity depends on the young. What will remain of us when artificial
intelligence takes over will be our creativity, andit is our creative spirit,
our visionary sense of freshness, that has been our strength for centu...
...he ad were using plastic
straws. I googled the contact info of the company and emailed its president. I told
him how plastic can harm the environment and asked him to consider using more sustainable
options.I
was so excited when he wrote back to me. He said he had been thinking about reducing
plasti...
...h one of our most obvious missing links. We have him, Watson, we have him, and I dare swear that before to-morrow night he will be fluttering in our net as helpless as one of his own butterflies. A pin, a cork, and a card, and we add him to the Baker Street collection!" He burst into one of his rare...
And, yes, the sheer intoxication that comes from belonging to a crowd that has suddenly found its voice, and which demands to be heard. 请问这句话结构怎么分析呢？怎么感觉是个名词呢？and which又是修饰的什么？谢谢老师！
...s simplified for kings. To them, all men are subjects."Approach, so that I
may see you better," said the king, who felt consumingly proud of being at
last a king over somebody.The little prince looked
everywhere to find a place to sit down; but the entire planet was crammed and
obstructed by the kin...
... extent are we as people... The way we speak, our ambitions, our attitudes and values, determined by our background and the environment we grew up in? On paper, I should have turned out as a delinquent and he an educated professional, but it seems to be developing into the opposite. It's just an...
我有点搞不清如果before段是过去时,seem部分是该用什么时态？假如前半句我用完成时态,那应该变seem部分还是变to be部分?It have seemd to be a long time before the food came?还是It seems to have been a long time before the food came?
...ven more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects
urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise. Burglar alarms
going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle.
Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street ...
... speech contains more than 2,000 different sounds, from the common “m” and “a” to the rare clicks of some southern African languages. But why are certain sounds more common than others? A ground-breaking, five-year study shows that diet-related changes in human bite led to new speech sounds ...
... word brings a serious
tone. While it is often used to talk about problems and their solutions, a big
steak dinner could be called substantive as could a very long piece of writing.
In any case, you use it when there is a lot of substance involved.
来源于vocabulary.comWhen something is substanti...