They have pleasant mouths turned up at the corners, to which the great Master of Marionettes has fixed the strings and he holds them in his nimblest fingers to twitch them at the slightest jest.我不知道to which 在这里是什么用法，为什么译文会在这里翻译成就像木偶大师?
请问"In some southern European countries they benefit from job protection not afforded to younger wokers."这句话的正确翻译，读起来感觉像省略了什么，这里的"afforded to"到底作何意思？ 是不是可以在“protection”后加“that”呢？
The evidence that the bright stars and pure moonlights fail to be detected manifests that environmental contamination is becoming increasingly fatal.fail 的主语应该是人，这里 将“the bright stars and pure moonlights”作主语，和fail to 构成主谓是否有语法问题？
It's important to learn foreign languages.为什么不能说learning?It's foolish behaving like that.为什么不能说to behave?It's fun to do/doing - 为什么 doing和to do又都可以？It's of no use crying/to cry - 为什么二者均可？在It is adj/n +...这种结构中，...
For governments the temptation is to turn the clock back to
limit the economic damage,from the collapse of city-centre cafés to the $16bn budget
shortfall that New York'ssubway system faces. 想请教下这个句子中from...to...结构在句子中所作成分，请问是 economic damage的定语...
题目：I have no more letters ____ , thank you.A. to type B.typing C.to be typed D.typed答案是C。我开始认为to type在这里作定语，逻辑主语是I，于是想选A。在网上查了，有人说选C是因为to be typed的逻辑主语是对方，就是句中的那个yo...
关于前面讨论的“it is +形容词+ of sb to do sth”句式，我也有一个问题，那就是其中的不定式可以用完成式吗？比较：It was kind of them to help me. It was kind of them to have helped me. It was nice of you to come. It was nice of you to have come.&...
...g. I'm very confused about all this.
I don't quite understand what I ought to do. Well, I suppose one could be a
Chichester and rush across the Atlantic in a boat. But you know, really, I'm
too tired for that. I think what I want to say to people is that if you're in
this situation it isn't nearly a...