老师晚上好：看到这个句子：Water is necessary for life.学生有了疑问：因为曾看到过这样的论述——主语为具体的物，介词用to。如：The book is important to me.主语为抽象的事，介词用for。如：Studyig English is important for me.望老师点拨。
Scientists may have the right to investigate anything within their means, but that does not mean that they also have the right to the means to investigate anything they choose.后半句have the right to the means to investigate中to the means是不是多余了，这里的means作何解？
...ir schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say 'about their school experience. In one study of 400 adults who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in s...
They should have done more research.I ought to have left here by 3.30.Surely they should have got home by midnight.请问这三句中should / ought to have done表达的语法意义是一样的吗？
To others and
themselves the British have a reputation for being conservative——not in the
narrow political sense, but in the sense of adherence to accepted ideas and
unwilling to question them.unwilling to
question them是不是与accepted ideas并列，共享一个介词to？unwilling to前面...