...nd [5]. When the -ing participant
immediately follows certain finite verbs with existential meaning, the latter
seem close to being aspectual catenatives:Frank sat reading
the newspaper. [4]Edith came running
towards us. [5]Further, a
sentence such as [6] is ambiguous in more than one way: I caught...
...many people are often willing to sacrifice higher
pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. This
can give rise to curious situations, as it did in the case ofAlfred Bloggs who
worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation. 4)
Lesson 3-5When
the journalist again failed to reply, t...
... uniformity in that practice, so that practitioners would not have to cope witha plethoraofoften conflicting national regulations.Eight hundred men of the Highlanders, Sixtieth, and Provincial troops were accordingly made over to him; so setting out with these from Loyalhannon he arrived before d...
...of jaw-dropping lying and greed so immense that billions of dollars fly by with every turn of the page. 2. The subject is Theranos, the start-up that promised to revolutionize blood testing. Still, the real subject is Elizabeth Holmes, who started the company as a 19-year-old Stanford Universit...
... health and may be resulting in both under- and over-diagnosis of obesity, with "negative consequences" for those affected and wider society.这句话的for those affected.....是介词短语做状语修饰前面的consequences吗?还是作定语?介词短语能后置做状语修饰前面的名...
...麦克米伦高阶英语词典》)In my humble opinion (= I want to emphasize that I
think that) we should never have bought the car in the first place. 依愚见,首先我们就不应该买这辆汽车。(《剑桥高级英语词典》第4版)What interests me most is where he got all that ...
...f his friend, Henry Taylor, he went off immediately to visit him, carrying with him in his pocket what remained ofa bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for anindisposition of Mrs. Carlyle’s.译文:据说托马斯.卡莱尔有过这么一件事:他听说朋友亨利.泰勒病了,就立...
The issue is whether the social-networking industry can come up witha
successful form ofadvertising that enables it to succeed in the same way that
Google has been able to make billions of dollars from the targeted ads that run
alongside the search results.whether引导表语从句,第一个that...
...the captainof the
Elkor decided to try once more. The sea bed was scoured with powerful nets and
there was tremendous excitement on board when a chest was raised from the
bottom. 2a)
这一句there was
tremendous excitement on board went a chest was raised from the bottom. 对比 There was a note...
Also unclear is why Microsoft has gone it alone.After all,it hasanad business too,which it says will comply with DNT(do not track) requests,though it is still working out how.这里的which指的是什么?这个which充当的是什么成分?which引导的从句该如何翻译?
...ethod of chart used by the United States Census Bureau in distributing the population by sex , age , and marital condition .我认为method作为方法的意思,从逻辑上讲“某某的方法”,这个某某一定是一个动名词doing,或者就是表示动作、过程或者活动的名词...
For
I might pronounce the words " Socrates is wise" withaninterrogative
tone of voice and therebyask
a question instead of making anassertion.这里应该是ask
还是 asking 呢?为什么?