...ffects your sleep on a nightly basis, it sets you up for
terrible insomnia that forces you to turn to sleeping pills.我查字典看到set sb. up for sth.有“使更健康”的含义，在这里明显说不通，那是用set up的什么含义来解释呢？
There’s no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major
omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency’s
costs.为什么considering前没有逗号？
George Annas would probably agree that doctors should bepunished if they manage their patients incompetently这句话如何理解呢？不明白 they manage their patients incompetently。
...ointed to a ledge about two thirds of the way up one of them and suggested that the party should spend the night there. up在句中做什么成分，是和two thirds of连用吗？还是做状语？
A passerger will step up and tell me which flight they intend to be taking that day--whether they have a ticket or not. If they've got a ticket i can issue the ticket right there at the ticket counter.请问这里的intend to be doing 属于什么用法？ 和intend to do 有什么不同吗？
...re than 3,000BC in China, it was not until the mid 17th century that the concept of“afternoon tea” first appeared in the UK.老师，这里的while是让步的作用吧，为什么不可以使用although\though链接呢？ 还是这边表示的是对比的含义？
It’s also the biggest producer of a toxic effluent that’s the byproduct of slaking the desert kingdom’s thirst for water. 这里的a toxic effluent,effluent作为可数名词是污水废水，那么前面加a是要理解为一种有毒废水？
...is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.请问专家，在这个强调句中what foul dust floated in the wake of his dream是什么从句?what好像在这个从句中...
Objectively, of course, the various ecosystems that sustain life on the planet proceed independently of human agency, just as they operated before the hectic ascendancy of Homo sapiens. 请问老师，independently of （副词+介词搭配）这种结构的用法是什么？由于我之前从...
As much as he earned was given to his wife.这里为什么在句首，该怎么分析呢？We cannot, as much as I think it is right and just that we should, have our cakes and eat them too.这里插入语as much as 接了句子？