The house he built was a spacious one. There was a courtyard in front of the place and two gardens in back, one to provide vegetables, one to delight the eye in the formal Japanese fashion. One of the two living-rooms was American, with easy chairs instead of tatami, and so were the kitchen and bath...
Donald Trump has lashed out at the Russia investigation in a Saturday morning tweet storm that accused the Democrats of trying to blame him for not releasing a memo that defends the Federal Bureau of Investigation from claims of bias.由于标题所限，剩下的问...
For others, it was an experience of drudgery. Making three meals a day, especially if your diners included small children, was tedium defined—an endless loop of eggs and beans and eggs and toast and beans and toast and eggs. 请问一下老师，这个was tedium defined是不是倒装了，是...
...opped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left——all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.翻译是：以阿斯旺大坝为例，它挡住了尼罗河的洪水，但也使埃及失去了洪水...
...中有 as it is 和 as it were 的用法，如下，可是却没有 as it was 的用法：as it is 照现状看；看样子: We were hoping to have a holiday next week as it is, we may not be able to get away.我们原来盼望着下星期放假--看样子走不了了.as it were (用以评断...
请问曹老师，句子：He was sure there were lots of people called potter who had a son
called Harry. Come to think of it, he wasn't even sure his nephew was called
Harry. … There was no point in worrying his wife, …问题：1. He was sure (that)+从句、I'm glad (that)+从句等，这类...
...gh more astonished than gratified herself by this effect of
her charms, it was not long before her mother gave her to understand that the
probability of their marriage was exceedingly agreeable to her.请教老师：这里long
before是副词词组，her mother
之前是省略了that, 即that
her mo...
He showed me how to drape the sling over my left shoulder and across the chest so that the pouch lay easily accessible to my right hand, allowing the best in journalism, fiction, and cartoons to be swiftly extracted and sold to a citizenry whose happiness and security depended upon us soldiers of th...
Anita lives in a
small town. She was deaf when she was a small child and her world was in
silence. The day she could hear for the first time was a big day for her. She ___
never forget that day.At the age of 20,
Anita could hear suddenly one day. The reason was that doctors gave her lots of
help. No...
It
was the day of the big cross-country run. Students from seven different primary
schools in and around the small town were warming up and walking the route (路线)
through thick evergreen forest.I
looked around and finally spotted David, who was standing by himself off to the
side by a fence. He ...
...ywhere all by yourself. Most animals are protected here. Two
years ago, it was reported that an Asian student had been deported for killing
wild ducks.新西兰气候温和，冬天不太冷，夏天又不太热。由于是岛国，新西兰全年湿润。有时，一片云彩一片雨。因此，...
这是新概念3第10课：At
the time, however, she was not only the largest ship that had ever been built,
but was regarded as unsinkable, for
she had sixteen watertight compartments. Even if two of these were flooded, she
would still be able to float. The
tragic sinking of this great liner will a...