To exaggerate:to describe something as larger or more important than it really is.(这里前面是实义动词describe,为什么用is,而不用does),比如:
1.He is 3 inches taller than she is.(前面是必动词,后面she后面也用必动词)
2.The woman weighs less than he does.(前面...
我在一篇文章中看到这句话:as befits the gravity of the issue at hand, a complicated multi-knockout round system was employed.但是我不知道为什么befit前面加as的原因,我又查了牛津字典,发现字典上只给出了例句,并没有解释原因:it was a lavish rece...
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we age, even if we’re healthy, the heart just isn’t as efficient in processing
oxygen as it used to be.这是2022年高考英语新全国卷2阅读理解D中的一个句子。这里的 as we age 和 even if we’re healthy 是两个并列的状语从句吧,中间为什么不用连词呢?
The latest was a panel from the National Academy of sciences,enlisted by the White House,to tell us that the Earth's atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely man-made.这个句子中的enlist是什么意思?如何理解呢,求解
I prefer travelling by train rather than travelling by plane, for trains are cheaper, safer and more comfortable.请问这句话到底哪一个划线部分有错误? 是rather than吗?(但是rather than后面可以跟Ving 吧?)
Sri Lanka is in shock after more than 200 people were killed in a wave of bomb blasts hit churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday.请问这句话里面hit是不是用的有问题?
A(主语)B(谓语)the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding , dominant puritan tradition in American intellectual life.解析说:红色的是宾语,绿色的是宾语的后置定语,为啥这后置定语之间要加个逗号,这是什么语法知识呢?
Mr. Halpern's book will come to more informed conclusions that I can;
but my own instinct, from the research and from observation, is to draw only
two. 请问is to draw only two中 be to 是个什么用法呢?看着也不像不定式,这段话be去掉也是可以的吧?
Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my
phantasm to the common-place -- some intellect more calm, more logical, and far
less excitable than my own,
请问标记处 be found,为什么使用被动?是什么意思呢?