...e out by Jespersen's quotations)
that in modem times foot is more frequent when it is followed by a number
indicating inches but the word inch(es) is not itself used: thus five feet, or five feet eight inches, but
five foot eight.就是说如果不接inches,要用foot,如:five foot eight。如...
My
life was perfect when I was twelve years old. I had a big family, including my
sister,Chrissy,and my little brother,Patrick,whom I loved greatly.Spring
was coming, and I was excited about another summer with Grandma.She
and I had great fun together last summer. She was retiring (退休)
this year...
请问not可以否定带ago的时间状语吗?比如:He was here not five minutes ago.I saw him not five minutes ago.He was wide awake not five minutes ago.类似地,英语可以说not ten years ago, not six months ago, not three days ago吗?
...lly reduced the
price to $10. Shrugging my shoulders, I began to walk away when, a moment
later, he ran after me and thrust the pen into my hands. Though he kept
throwing up his arms in despair, he readily accepted the $5 I have him. I felt
especially pleased with my wonderful bargain -- until I got...
Until such time as mankind has the sense to lower its population to the point where the planet can provide a comfortable support for all ,people will have to accept more unnatural food.
Never again, not even in the face of the most impassioned anti-smoking publicity by the FDA, would cigarette consumption decline as rapidly as it did during these years of entirely market-driven anti-smoking ad claims by the industry itself.这里的not even怎么翻译,我觉得不要not也有原...
...losses, because they largely reflect the temporary illiquidity of markets, not the likely extent of bad debts.【我的疑问】虽然整句话我大概能翻译出来,但是 not the likely extent of bad debts 在句子中是什么成份?我搞不明白。not the...这种结构怎么理解?直...