...or trouble 自找麻烦 It must have been about two inthe morning when I returned home. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell, but she was fast asleep, so I got a ladder from the shed inthe garden, p...
Theincrease inthe numbers of married women employed outside the home inthe 20th century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of s...
The consequences
of this attitude are, in fact, far-reaching. Young people apply for jobs, or to take courses in tertiary
education, and demonstrate intheir letters of application that they cannot
speak English properly. 选自Simon Heffer 的《Strictly English》page 20 疑问1：to take courses
...
As is vividly depicted inthe left picture above, three decades ago, a
young mother held the small hand of her daughter who was carefree and happy.
Contrarily, inthe picture on the right, the little girl has become a beautiful
youngster, supporting her old mother. The cartoonist aimed to highlight ...
...uld
not go to sleep one night because he heard
a strange noise coming from the bar. The next morning, he found that the
doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though
Mr.Thompson had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on inthe morning. He also said tha...
We noticed that you've ordered two tickets for the SHB band's summer concert. However, we also see that you haven't made the payment yet. _____ you still intend to attend the concert, please make your payment through the webpage as soon as possible. (A) In case ...
The song of the young girl reaping inthe fields is incomprehensible to him, and what he appreciates is its tone, its expressive beauty, and the mood it creates within him, rather than its explicit content, at which he can only guess.请问：(1) within him 是什么意思？(2) at which...
...法问答1144例》一书，书中有读者问了这么一个句子：(1)The boy told him his story and also that of the girl upstairs, who was his sister, and of the terrible wrongs that&nb...
...k of books,”
artworks are selected and arranged in a way that emphasizes these connections
between different eras and cultures. We see scenes of children learning to read
at home or at school, with the book as a focus for relations between the
generations. Adults are portrayed (描绘) alone
in ma...
I remember the day during
our first week of class when we were informed about our semester (学期) project of
volunteering at a non-profit organization. When the teacher introduced us tothe different organizations that needed our help, my last choice was Operation
Iraqi Children (OIC). My first im...
...。如：He is a man of ability. 他是位有能力的人。He is behind the others in ability. 他在能力上比别人差。Taxation should be based on ability to pay. 征税应该以支付能力为基础。Ability to talk distinguishes human beings from the lower animals. 用语言交谈的能力...
1.It's hard not to wonder how subsequent events in her life — rather
consequential as they have turned out to be to conservation. to science, to our
sense of ourselves as a species — might have unfolded differently had someone
not found her passport, along with an itinerary from Cook’s, the tr...
...l methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed tointerpret the new forms of evidence inthe historical study. 1. designed tointerpret the new forms of evidence 是做定语吗？是否可以替换成“定语从句”—— that have been designed… 2. inthe histor...
All this has happened, in part at least, because the fathers who were plumbers made enough money to send their children to college so they wouldn’t have to be plumbers.书上的参考翻译：做水管工的父辈赚了足够的钱，把孩子送进了大学，于是孩子们便不用再当水管...
老师，想问一下这句话Those of us who pushed for the bill will consider ourselves most successful if it acts as an incentive not to have it invoked inthe first place.里面后半句 not to have it invoked inthe first place 是省略了什么呢?这句话对于我来说太难分析了，谢...