The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.这里的track翻译成什么合适?
A new, a noble role, and Evelyn Nixon was a fine example of it: the receiver, not the giver, of beautiful inventions. 这句话中的a new, a noble role是同位语成分?为什么可以写在句首?
1)It was much better than I'd expected.根据词典,than只有两个词性:介词、连词。expect是及物动词,那么其宾语是哪个?than在这里为什么词性?2)He was three years older than me.这里的than是介词还是连词?可以分析为连词吗?
Do you imagine him at school,sitting in front of a sweet dessert with nothing but a pen to eat it with.这里的sitting为啥用ing呢,dessert后面的with是什么意思呢?为什么sitting前面用逗号呢?