When informed of the Biscari massacre of prisoners, which was by troops under his command, Patton wrote something in his diary. 这个句子改自维基百科，句子中的定语从句“which was by troops under his command”，应该如何分析？
1、was是系动词，by 介词短语...
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the second war is the country’s impressive population growth.请问各位老师，1. 此句中to any understanding of是与basic组成一个形容词短语吗？2. 如果是的话，譬如此类的形容词短语如何翻译？有什么规...
...位语从句吗？请翻译一下句子意思。It was about the beginning of November, 1880, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard in ordinary
discourse that the plague was returned again in Holland.
The way he earns his salary is to make speculative statements about the state of the weather to come from a positionof complete uncertainty.这个句子中第二个（to）是怎么理解呢？
For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty. 请问老师，looked后面接的 as though是宾语从句、主语从句还是状语从句？It是指代上文的内容还...
This rhetoric has also crept into the thinking of business leaders and entrepreneurs, much to the delight of self-proclaimed perfectionists with the need to get everything right. 后半句much to该作何中理解，有些人翻译成''让那些自称完美主义者、希望把每件事都做好的...
Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent---and all the attendant need for phsical and financial assistance---have jumped eightfold in just one generation.这个句子中as the odds of having a weak elderly parent是什么意思？odd...
Thver of the 2009 Honda Accord -- Richard Rojas, 26, of the Bronx -- tested positive for PCP and told police that God made him do it, a law enforcement source told CNN.上文中的tested是主动表被动吗？为什么前面没有be动词的过去式，感谢老师的回答。e dri
But he (the writer) has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence do not.选自文章 The Cardinal Virtue of Prose.这里的 convinces 是什么用法？convince 不是及物动词吗，不可以这样用吧？
The phase transitions between water and ice cause the destructionof soil skeleton, and this/that destruction lead the increases in diameter of individuals.想问一下，这里是不是使用this更好？
The xxx Museum is home to a set of xxx hair ribbons made of gold dating back to 2600-2500BC.dating 是现在分词做状语吗？怎么理解呢？如果它是做状语，为什么不用时间状语从句呢。如果dating做时间状语，麻烦老师写出可以替换它的常见时间状语从...
The most damaging charge against the two men is that they risked their
country’s fortunes (“success is the child of Audacity” says one of
Disraeli’s characters) to feed their egos. 引述分句倒装，是因为直接引语短的缘故，所以谓语前不加逗号吗？
The pursuit of
knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all
advances in scientific technique.我认为，对知识的追求主要是受权欲的驱使，于是就有了科学技术的进步。想请教各位老师，so are all为什么这样翻译？是倒装吗？