...between people and the opportunity for natural selection to take advantage of it have diminished.2. the desire of businessmen to maximize profits请问曹老师：例句1中for natural selection to take advantage of it，我认为应分析为不定式复合结构做the opportunity的后置定语。...
...到书上填空题：For
nearly ten years dust blew on the southern plains of America, which caused
serious results. People couldn't breathe when they went outside and children
wore dust masks to school. The sky (was) often dark for days.Over
five million acres of land became desert during the Dust ...
在新牛津词典中看到of的第七个释义是“indicating the relationship between a verb and an indirect object”
《新编高级英语语法》P.46页中有一个间接宾语后置的例举，
He asked me a question = He asked a question of me
这里有点不明白，感觉第二句...
【1】There are three of us using the phone so it all adds up.【2】I've got two hands and there are three of you. So you'll have to wait your turn! 请问老师们，three of us/you是不是暗示us/you多于3人？
...它的内部逻辑是？Your senses are the physical abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste.abilities of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste.这个of定语表示同位的短语，中心语abilities 是复数，是否意味着他内部的逻辑修饰是一个对应一个...
...timid would turn aside to avoid him, and that others would make it a point of hardihood to throw themselves in his way.【我的疑问】这个句式应该是make a point of doing sth，或者接to do用make it a point to do sth，但是point后面不接of sth，it指代to do sth意思是保证做...
He
asked for a glass of beer, but they _________(drink) all of it! 这个空应该怎么填？如果填had
drunk，那么根据过去完成时和一般过去时一先一后的顺序，到底是他要了一杯酒在前，还是他们把它喝光在前，到底应该怎么翻译？过去完成时不...
Thus, she became increasingly alarmed by the development and use of DDT and other pesticides of its type.other pesticides of its type译文上的意思是其他同类型的农药。字面上的意思是它的类型的其他农药，怎么理解这个短语?its是指哪个，是pesticides吗？
accepted or deserving to be accepted as one of the best or most important of its kind.这句话是摘自classic的释义，为什么中文翻译是同类中最好的，而不是同类中最好之一，和she is one of the tallest girls in our school有区别吗？
So Scar did away with both
of them, killing Mufasa and banishing Simba, and, as a result, he got to be king
for a descent amount of time.
这句里面 a descent amount of time 是什么意思呢？怎么理解 descent 在句子中的意思。