The writing of a dictionary,
therefore, is not a task of setting up ruling statements about the “true
meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one's ability, what
various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer
of a dictionary is a historian, n...
问题之一：I sit down, sign up for all my classes, get into them, and I'm happy.我的疑问：sign 是不及物动词为什么不直接用 sign for, 而一定要加上副词 up 呢？问题之二：And it remains to be seen whether large numbers of younger, healthier Americans will sign up ...
...没明白我的意思。
2. He as good
as refused, so I won’t ask him for help for good. 他几乎是拒绝我了，因此我永远不会再求他。
3. I’m not feeling fine because I was fined for speeding today. 我感到不舒服，因为我今天超速被罚了。
4. He spelt
her name wro...
Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day.书上翻译成：因为我们正穿过英国一片独一无二的乡野。我感觉不对， for we were passing thr...
...ound the
country. The government is also investing in other eco-friendly efforts, such
as renewable energy and electric taxis. “We’ve been decimating Earth’s natural
resources for generations, but the good news is that nature has an
extraordinary capacity for renewal,” Prime Minister Imran K...
She is hoping to win the gold medal.=She hopes to win the gold medal.We were hoping for good weather.=We hoped for good weather.这2句话等号成立吗？be hoping是否含有时态内容，还是只是一个常用表达形式？
老师好！1.The fire lasted for 5 hours, during which time everything was destroyed.老师这句话您说的是对的而且time不能换做hours，那为什么I will neverforget the day on which time I first met you就是错的？还有这句话He will put off hte picinic until...
...e that they would survive. 他们幸存的希望很小。We
cannot survive for long without food and drink. 我们没有食物和饮料就活不了多久。If
not for modern medicine, fewer babies would survive. 要不是有现代医学，幸存的婴儿会更少。Only
the strongest will survive. ...
...d, Northern Ireland, and Wales --- a bigger say and to counter centrifugal forces that seemed to threaten the very idea of the union.The Welsh showed little enthusiasm for devolution. Whereas the Scots voted overwhelmingly for a parliament, the vote for a Welsh assembly scraped through by less than ...
...els of climate change which are already inevitable, and even more so, too, forthe levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.老师好，请问and是连接forthe levels...和so that...吗？还有，even more so是什么表达呢？