老师好，请教下这句话：Sicily was colonized by Phoenicians,Carthaginians,and Greeks starting in the 8th century.这里的starting现在分词，和主语Sicily什么关系？是作伴随情况吗？可以理解为following一样为介词吗？有劳老师指教，多谢！
...the process how a person becomes a Supreme Court justice.或者the process that a person becomes a Supreme Court justice.不明白这个by是要表达什么意思。先谢谢老师，希望老师同时能告诉我要补补哪里。
...but studded with such mutually provoking juxtapositions as a 1967 painting that fantasizes a race riot, by the African-American artist Faith Ringgold, with Picasso’s gospel “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907).1. with Picasso’s gospel “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907). 是与j...
I climbed to the top of a small rise and realised
that the mist was little more than a few feet deep.上面一句摘自2021年英语高考全国卷II(全国甲卷)阅读理解A。请问这里的 little more than是什么？它与 a little more than有区别吗？
It was during the same time that the communications revolution speeded
up,beginning with transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph,
the telephone,radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the
motor car and the airplane.曹老师您好，我对于这个句子不太...
...便注意到了他。
As soon as I get through with my work I’ll join you. 我工作一做完就来找你们。
As soon as he entered, he sensed a tension in the air. 他一进去就感到了气氛的紧张。
He hurried to see her as soon as he heard she was ill. 他一听说她病了...
Endure has richer associations when it becomes transitive; in this case, it suggests the dauntless struggle for existence.请问一下：richer association 是什么意思？