But the desire for approbation is
perhaps the most deeply seated instinct of civilised man. No one runs so
hurriedly to the cover of respectability as the unconventional woman who has
exposed herself to the slings and arrows ofoutraged propriety. I do not
believe the people who tell me they do not ...
It's wrong of you to take shelter under the tree in the storm.问：语法上讲，it is +adj. +(for/of+sb.)+to do sth. ，此句型中到底何时用for 何时用of 取决于其前的形容词，若此形容词是表示人的属性的可以用来修饰人的，比如：kind , clever 时用of sb...
... But this is one of
those formal English rules that derive ultimately from there being a history of
deciding that English should work like Latin, therefore anything wrong in Latin
is wrong in English, and ultimately this just doesn't reflect the way English
works. 而且此人还推荐了一个权...
...mly to decline this proposal. I think
perhaps I should have made a show ofthe indignation I really felt, and I am
sure that Colonel MacAndrew at least would have thought well of me if I had
been able to report my stout refusal to sit atthe same table with a man of
such character. But the fear of n...
...elatives 如何理解？如何区分？i She’s just sat her final exam, [the
result of which we expect next week].ii She investigated all the complaints, [most
of which were well founded].iii They are members of an association [the
first and most precious principle of which is mutual trust].iv Pol...
Kim Cobb, a professor atthe
Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is one of a small but growing minority of academics who are
cutting back on their air travel because of climate change. Travelling to
conferences, lectures, workshops, and the like—frequently by plane—is
viewed/has been vie...
...消耗或支持更环保的政策来抵消这种不平衡。 Even if this methodof timekeeping is novel in its particulars, early agricultural societies also connected time to natural phenomena. In pre-Classical Greece, for instance, people “corrected” official calendars by shifting dates forw...
以下两个句子来自儿童小说《The
Cricket in Times Square》:1.“But only
on trial he stays. Atthe first sign ofthe cricketer friends, or if we come
down with peculiar diseases—out he goes!”“Yes, Mama,
anything you say,” said Mario.”2.“I
could keep him somewhere else,” the ...
141.loathe（P1514）作“to
hate someone or something very much厌恶，憎恨”解时，构成“loathedoing something”。例如：I absolutely loathe
shopping.我极其讨厌购物。Even after years of
practice, he still loathed making public speeches.（摘自Longman Dictionary of Contempo...
...。但这样显然就把ask for 拆开理解了。词典例句：I asked the waiter for the bill.（正确的成分分析是什么？）3.back away from sth及back away from doing sth也被列为短语动词，我觉得away from...这个复合介词结构显然是back这个动词的方向状语。...
10．“Ride
your ways, ” said the gipsy, “ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan, ride your
ways, Godfrey Bertram! This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths; see if
the fire in your ain parlor burn the blyther for that! Ye have riven the thack
off seven cottar houses;look if your ain roof-tr...