... tablets unearthed in the ruins of the Sumerian temples where the accounts were kept suggests a social differentiation within the scribal class, with a virtual army of lower-ranking tabulators performing the monotonous job of tallying commodities. We can only speculate as to how high or low the inve...
...meant a houseful of people. So when it
looked as if my husband, Don, and I were going to be eating alone, it just
seemed natural to invite Justin, aninternational
student from China. A few days later Justin called to ask if he might invite
two of his student friends - one from Korea, one from Iran. ...
...ir banks or fields saturated with rainwater turned to mud."There were cows that were up to their head in the water," one farmer close to Port Macquarie told the Guardian newspaper.以上句子摘自一段新闻。黑体部分的定语从句，that were up to their head...
With so many companies competing for consumers' attention, price competition was intense and profit margins thin or nonexistent.profit margins 后面是否省略了were？
下面哪个句子是对的？都对？都不对？There were many more people at the meeting than was supposed.There were many more people at the meeting than it was supposed.There were many more people at the meeting than what was supposed.如果三句都对，那它们的区别是什么？谢谢...
... alligator-pears, I have seen them ever since differently, as though there
were in them a spirit and a mystery which I am ever on the point of seizing and
which forever escapes me. The colours were the colours familiar to me, and yet
they were different. They had a significance which was all their o...
...示“是否……”，or not 通常要与whether 连用。如：Nadine was undecided whether or not to go to college. 娜丁尚未决定是否去上大学。Whether or not we can go ultimately depends on the weather. 我们是否能去最终取决于天气。Whether it was unwise or not depends up...
...激动的，气愤的【典型例句】1.着火的，燃烧的His clothes were ablaze. 他的衣服烧着了。Farm buildings were set ablaze. 农场的建筑被烧着了。The house was ablaze in a few minutes. 房子几分钟就烧起来了。Shattered houses were ablaze. 炸毁的房屋在...
Such was the force of the explosion that all the windows were broken. The force of the explosion was Such that all the windows were broken. Such倒装是什么词性？
...ing creatures that approached them, had
dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling
group or crowd, according to its size.1.each by its own jostling group or crowd请问老师这里的its指代的是什么呢
its指代的是pool’s 吗？也就是翻译成“被酒...
...d-up comedy or watching someone pour salt into their tea instead of sugar, were nowhere near as easy to tell apart. This suggested there was something unique about the post-tickling laugh.这句话的as easy是不是后面有省略，还是在这里做副词？
“The big bosses know better,” or “they see
the bigger picture,” were the catchphrases of my seasoned colleagues. 这是俄罗斯前外交官Boris Bondarev在《经济学人》应邀专栏写的一篇文章中的一句话。用were是因为语义一致的缘故吗？另外，两个逗号应...
...e up as the sun rising, but I found I could not move.My
arms,legs and hair were tied to the ground!Then
I felt something on my leg. It moved up over my stomach and neck until it was
standing near my face.I
looked down and saw a very small man. He was the same size as my little finger!
Where was I ? ...
When the children were 12 or 13, they used images to best depict what they perceived their bodies to look like and were asked whether or not they engaged in any dieting behavior.在这句话中，when引导了时间状语从句吗？
The big difference was that where ideas were previously published in journals or books that a reader had to buy, now the same information could be published without cost.请问这句话where从句部分怎么翻译？