This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.请问老师,这个except by如何理解?除了通过推迟现代化,邮政服务不能支付它的账单。
.... Upon arriving at Dorothy’s classroom, I was greeted with smiling faces and treated like a queen. The children had been prepared to show me their latest projects. Dorothy told me with a big smile that they were serving poke greens salad and cornbread for “dinner” (lunch). In case you don’t ...
It tells the story of an aspiring young man's attempt to rise above the squalor of the street. 此处的 rise 理解为不及物动词,
还是理解为 rise above 是个短语,
还是 above 引导介词短语?
A paper in 2011 by Jeffrey Wurgler finds that whether a share is part of an index influences its price.请问老师,这句话主句谓语是finds,宾语从句谓语动词是is,那最后为什么会又来一个动词finds?