...; .A．The consequence was so bad that he could not bear to see it B．The third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work wellC．Even if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it...
The empires had yet to work out an elusive compromise that was achieved
only too rarely: the viable balance between a rigorous, disciplined mode of
government and attention to the ethical values of the humanities. From the
outset they faced one question, seen indeed before the days of empire had
daw...
原文：So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to,
until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara,
six years ago. Something was broken in my engine. And as I had with me neither
a mechanic norany passengers, I set myself to attempt the difficult repairs
al...
...d ring. I had no intention of
buying one, but I could not conceal the fact that I was impressed by the size
of the diamonds. Some of them were as big as marbles. The man went to great
lengths to prove that the diamonds were real. As we were walking past a shop,
he held a diamond firmly against the w...
... had, for the more I read the more I realized it had always been thus, and that apparently an essential part of studying literature, whether in 1840, 1930, or 1975, was to conclude that there had once been a golden age, that it was gone.此处的be to的理解？Q3:The silence about this was odd, bo...
1. Employers who do credit checks operate under the assumption that having had trouble paying bills is a character flaw, but there is scant hard evidence to back this up.
老师，这个“had”不用去掉嘛？直接说"…under the assumption that having trouble paying…"不行嘛？
还有...
...? They don’t have to be world-changing, just aspects of your
personality that you’re proud of.At the top of a
second page, put the heading “Acts of kindness.” On this one, list all the
positive things you’ve done for others. It might be the time when you helped a
friend with their homework...
... not seen her for some time, and I noticed changes in her; it was not only that she was older, thinner, and more lined; I think her character had altered. She had made a success of her business, and now had an office in Chancery Lane; she did little typing herself, but spent her time correcting the ...
...appy and angry human faces, according to a new
study.Researchers trained agroup of 11 dogs to
distinguish between images (图像) of the same person making either a happy oran
angry face. During the training stage, each dog was shown only the upper half
or the lower half of the person’s face. Th...
...ve clothes. So for them
to move to Elkhead, Colo. to instruct the children whose shoes were held
together with string was a surprise. Their stay in Elkhead is the subject of
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by
Dorothy Wickenden, who is a magazine editorand ...
She had come up with a blood test that could be taken with a teeny-weeny drop or two of blood from the finger. or two是不是相当于or two teeny-weeny drops,这里可以看做数词做了名词吗？
...r imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to
others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you
had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.请教一下：that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you
had been would ha...
...as Project Wild Thing, a film which charts
the birth of the Wild Network agroup of organisations with the common goal of
getting children out into nature.“Just five more minutes outdoors can make a
difference,” David Bond says. “There is a lot of really interesting evidence
which seems to be ...
...ld me. I was not so much puzzled by Blanche Stroeve's action, for I saw in
that merely the result of a physical appeal. I do not suppose she had ever
really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more than
the feminine response to caresses and comfort which in the minds of most ...