...ospital I found I was getting it wrong with quite a lot of
people, because they didn't look at it the same way as I did. And again, I
think if you're going to die around the age of 50, far more people are involved
than if you're dying when you're really old. You know, it's fairly threatening
to peop...
On
the other hand, being young and old at the same time has its attractions. I
considered this when I met a thoughtful young businessman named Anthony. “Many
people say that we lack culture in this country,” he told me, “What people
forget is that the Italians, when they came to Austrlia, brou...
海明威《乞力马扎罗的雪》:He looked over to where the huge, filthy birds sat, their naked heads sunk in the hunched feathers. A fourth planed down, to run quick-legged and then waddle slowly toward the others.请问此处的不定式to do结构在句子里做什么成份?
Asking the technician to “hold on”,the customer put the phone down and was heard walking over to shut theto his room.The technician meant the door to his floppy drive. 请问这句话的was heard 的主语应该是technician吧,但是照句子来看是customer做的主语,到底是哪里...
The
tiny village of Frinley is said to possess a 'cursed tree'. Because the tree was mentioned in a
newspaper, the number of visitors to Frinley has now increased. The tree
was planted near the church fifty years ago, but it is only in recent years
that it has gained an evil reputation. It is said t...
...n doing. -- He is his own master. But you
do not know all. I will read you the passage which particularly hurts me. I
will have no reserves from you." "Mr. Darcy is impatient to see his
sister, and to confess the truth, we are scarcely less eager to meet her again.
I really do not think Georgiana Da...
...有规律还是固定用法?例如:用 to 的:give a pen to me ,show the book to me这类动词有:send, bring, sell等用for的:buy a beautiful skirt for her, play the pipa for my mother这类动词有teach, cook make, cut, draw, thank等既可以用for, 又可以用to :sing a song to s...
...式和宾补形容词后的不定式为什么都不能带宾语?I find the parts hard to go with the machine. 对不对?The part is hard to go with the machine. 对不对?像The clothes are easy to wash.They found the lecture hard to understand.这种不能加宾语的结构还有什么?
...1) which had most disconcerted me in my dealings with him. When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that(2) no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost on...
And we all know the weird antipathy such explanations arouse in us, a feeling of not so much boredom as offense, as if something has been blasphemed. This is a lot like the teacher’s feelings at running a Kafka story through the gears of your standard undergrad critical analysis — plot to chart,...
But the bed I made up for myself was sufficiently uncomfortable to give
me a wakeful night, and I thought a good deal of what the unlucky Dutchman had
told me. I was not so much puzzled by Blanche Stroeve's action, for I saw in
that merely the result of a physical appeal. I do not suppose she had ev...