牛津柯林斯阅读读到(a country), at a time of internal disorders, had contracted large loans on exorbitant terms.我查了contract这个词，查了牛津和柯林斯。比较疑惑的是，两个字典在对应意思的地方，contract作及物动词时提到的用法都是contract sb to do...
...dio and understand the radio and all the... programmes they
have... um and when they're on and the little stories.when they're on 理解为“播放”，and the little stories在句中如何理解？
Having been delayed by heavy traffic,_______.A.it is impossible for her to arrive on time B.it led to her being late C.she arrived late D.her friend thought that she would be late
Compare that to Hulk, who is fully devoted in every training session and who travelled with the team to Japan when he was injured.上面这句话好像看不到主谓成分。谢谢专家老师。
I remember having an extremely busy timetable when I was at high school, and it would not have been possible to add to it.各位可否帮我看看这句话 【it would not have been possible to add to it】这是什么语法结构？
Were it not for the adoption of the open policy, things ________what
they are today. A. would never be B.would never have been为什么给出的答案是B呢？从句不是与现在事实相反，主句也没有出现和过去有关的时间词吗？
... political force to be reckoned with . 他们已经成为一支不容忽视的政治力量这里的reckon是不及物动词，所以要加介词with吗？reckon
with 是什么意思呢？好像上句也可以用主动态而含义不变 =
They were already a political force to reckon with. 对吗...
In time, this organization became a state, and knowledge of its functioning was exportable, as were pottery, tropical bird feathers, specialized stone materials, and other local commodities.请教这句话该怎么理解？as是什么用法？
...ng to the
other, encounters a line of antibodies designed to recognise it. When the
sample is urine and the antigen is a hormone found in expectant women, you have
a pregnancy test. When the sample is mucus from a swab and the antigen is the
spike protein, it is a covid-19 test—a cheap, convenient...