在学习if从句的虚拟语气时有些疑惑，看到if were to do表示对将来的虚拟，例如：If I were to tell the truth to my boyfriend, he would kill me! 但是，为什么不能说If I told the truth to my boyfriend, he would kill me! 再比如：If he were to graduate on sc...
It was easy to see by the newspapers that if ever they had known what it was to bear a good name, that time had gone by. 上句中what it was to bear a good name, that time had gone by. 整个作known的宾语，就是known后接what引导的宾语从句。调整一下位置，变为it was what...
...语有一个句子翻译题，其中有一个句子是Pearson has pieced together the work of hundreds of researchers aroundthe world to produce a unique millenium technology calendar that gives thelatest dates when we can expect hundreds of key breakthroughs and discoveriesto take place.有老师...
...深奥的道理，句子结构也确实貌似复杂。这句名言是：
To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is
false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not,
is true.
有现成的翻译，我直接引用过来：“非而是，是而非...
...，except后面也可以接“不定式”。如：He hardly spoke except to say hello.She seldom goes out except to go to Mass.I rarely need to go into the city centre except to do some shopping.但是，请问老师，except 后面可以接“疑问词+不定式”吗？谢谢！
...e in seven years, New York City officials expect the number of foreign visitors to decrease, a drop they attribute to the protectionist policies and rhetoric of President Trump—saying that those moves are scaring off many of visitors who have helped fuel the city’s robust growth since the last r...
...uld剑桥字典给出的解释为：would modal verb (WILLINGNESS): used to talk about what someone was willing to do or what something was able to doThe car wouldn't start this morning.这里明确是was able to do，过去的能力而在韦氏字典里解释为: COULDthe barrel wou...
Without
gravity to help circulate air, the carbon dioxide you exhale has a tendency to
form an invisible cloud around you head.对于上面这个例句，请教各位老师：1.
这里的to help能否换成helping？为什么？2.
to help circulate air作gravity的补足语，还是gravity的定语...
1.I realized that my discomfort was (connected) to my inadequate
professional training.2.The importance our society (attaches) to the development of the
internet largely owes to the convenience it has brought to our life.这这里为什么分别用connect，attach?这两个词怎么区分？
...代词作宾语；如果要接名词或代词作宾语，则要用object to。如：Bill objected that it would take longer. 比尔反对说这会花更长时间。Mother objected to his rudeness. 母亲不赞成他那样粗鲁无礼。Many local residents have objected to the scheme. 许...
原句是If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate—where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform. it amounts to the bare, bare minimum中间有一...
Mr. Gates told the BBC that a vaccine was the only way to get back to life, the way it was before the pandemic.为什么不直接写成the only way to get back to life before the pande...
we have a lot of things to learn about in this age请问老师：这里的to learn about 是不定式作目的状语，还是，不定式作宾语补足语？还见过两个类似的①you can not manage to do ... ②you have failed to ...
不定式可以做定语，例如：The boy to write this letter needs a pen. (to write this letter 为定语，修饰名词boy) /写这封信的男孩需要一支钢笔。There is nothing to do today.（to do为定语，修饰名词nothing）/今天没有事要做。请教一下老师，什么情...
不定式例如 be able to do, be happy to do, be willing to do,这里 to do 是做结果状语吗？还有一种说法是这里的to do可以看做宾语从句的省略，比如 I am happy that I do sth,是这样吗？动名词如 be busy doing, be worth doing，这里动名词是做什么成分？