...he January selloff was exactly what was needed, purging the stockmarket of its speculative excesses.选自经济学人的一段话，不太清楚这里purging ……这个是动名词还是现在分词呢，做什么成分呢？希望老师们可以帮忙一下！
They have pleasant mouths turned up at the corners, to which the great Master of Marionettes has fixed the strings and he holds them in his nimblest fingers to twitch them at the slightest jest.我不知道to which 在这里是什么用法，为什么译文会在这里翻译成就像木偶大师?
...rdian crossed the finish line that April afternoon in a winning time of 4 hours 7 minutes and 40 seconds, almost two hours slower than his personal个人的best over 26.2 miles.官方翻译：那个四月的下午，胡须上挂满冰霜 的沃迪安以4小时7分 40秒的成绩冲过 终 ...
John's salary
as a bus driver was much higher than that of a teacher.这个句子在比较前后分别使用了两种不同的所有格，这样用也可以吗？是不是应该改成：John’s salary
as a bus driver was much higher than a teacher's.
...40-year-old personal
trainer. "It's nice to do something just for the sake of it."这句话的so much bad not fun后面是不是有省略？fun做形容词后面加现在分词？是不是fun后面有省略？可以把bad和fun看成名词吗？还是so much bad 后面so much that is
bad的省略？
...：““
6. somewhat formal — used to talk about the
result or effect ofsomething that may happen or be true…I will feel very guilty
should anything go wrong. [=if anything goes wrong]—usually used with ifI will feel very guilty
if anything should [=were to] go wrong.… ” --- (
Merria...
...用以具体说明the fact的内容。Mary suddenly got the
feeling that someone was watching her. 玛丽突然感到有人在看她。句中的that someone was watching her为修饰名词the feeling的同位语从句，用以具体说明the feeling的内容。英语中只有少数名词可后接同...
...语，有时用作后置定语，请问它们有区别吗？
The windows of the nearby shops were shattered in the blast. 那次爆炸震碎了附近商店的窗户玻璃。
The young man sent the dirty clothes to the laundry nearby. 这个小伙子把脏衣服送到附近的洗衣店去了。
Several schools are within easy reach. 几所学校都在附近不远处。 He lives within easy distance of his work. 他住在离上班很近的地方。 以上两句分别用了 within easy reach 和 within easy distance，好像意思差不多，它们有区别吗？
This wise and funny film works small miracles in describing such a moment when kids turn from the wishfulness of childhood into shaping the world for themselves.请问句中的 work 该怎么翻译？是什么意思？