Toward that end,
O’Malley requires all current employees and new hires to further develop their skill sets and attain the status of
Certified Professional in Supply Management这里的skill sets中的sets字面意思是“组，套”，还有“集合”的意思，如和理解skill sets的意思...
But to run the country and get legislation through parliament, he needs
a prime minister and a government, and that looks tricky.问题：请问but 在这里是表示除…以外的意思吗？置于句首是否常见？
...d occurrence of two adjacent terms in a text corpus. Co-occurrence in this linguistic sense can be interpreted as an indicator of semantic proximity or an idiomatic expression. Corpus linguistics and its statistic analyses reveal patterns of co-occurrences within a language and enable to ...
...andscape
photographers. Each year, the high standard of entries has shown that the Awards are the perfect platform to showcase the very best photography of the British landscape. Take a view is a desirable annual competition for photographers from all corners of the UK and beyond. 我的猜测和...
She is concerned that her savings are not secure stored at home.She says sometimes her husband takes the money. Sometimes it gets spent.这句话中的get spent应当是被动语态吧，不过老师说不是所有的词都可以用get被动语态，那么这里的spent可以么？
There are, nevertheless, people working in luxurious, state-of-the-art centres designed to stimulate innovation who find that their environment doesn’t make them feel at all creative. 这个句子看上去好乱啊，还不好理解，能重新排个序么？另外请翻译一下句意。谢谢。
①Jaws told of a silent,monstrous predator(指大白鲨) that chewed up the lives,limbs and the summer vacations of unfortunate swimmers at an Atlantic Ocean coastal resort.
②Sales took off,money rolled in.
请问:为何②句是隐喻手法？①句有包含什么修辞手法吗？
牛津高阶英汉双解词典第9版中，convention的释义为 the way in which sth is done that most people in a society expect and consider to be polite or the right way to do it。这里该怎么划分成分。谢谢老师！
Hugging with these gentle giants-cows typically weigh about 1500 to
2000 pounds has an extremely soothing effect.Hugging with these gentle giants-cows (that) typically weigh about 1500
to 2000 pounds has an extremely soothing effect.为什么可以省略？什么情况下可以省略？
Shawn didn’t compete, because he hates competition. He prefers activities that call for cooperation.Shawn didn’t compete because he hates competition. He just didn’t feel well enough to race. Different meaning of because有了一个逗号，句子意思侧重不一样了，请分析。