I gazed upon the schoolroom into which he took me, as the most forlorn and desolate place I had ever seen.请问老师:介词短语as the most forlorn and desolate place 是做定语修饰前面的名词the schoolroom吗?
When a passing tanker rescued them five days later,both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.1.请问,为什么这个句子直接用both men 而不是both of the men ,两者有区别吗?2. 描述5天后被救,为什么用表示“当时”的when从句呢?
She was very much as she had expected to be, having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her or to cause her the least distress.请问老师,这里的as是引导什么从句呢?
... when the two things compared are
expressed in gerunds (sometimes with the second -ing form deleted) we find both
to and rather than: He preferred living like a Grecian, to dying
like a Roman. — J. W.
Croker, 20 July 1815, in The Croker papers, 1884 (OED)(笔者注:从此例可以看出“pref...
(1) He was survived by his wife and three children.(2)Four of their children had died as babies and the fifth survived.请问(1)句中的 was survived by 靠...而活,放在这里是要表达什么意思? (2) 句子中的as babies是什么成分? 不知道该怎么翻译?
In fact, the speech on About.com was protected by copyright law, and
Calabro might have been liable to legal action had the Web firm been so inclined.请问老师,加粗这里怎么理解?也没先行词,这句子这样就2动词了。
Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert's appointment in the Times, calls him "an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him."with介词短语为with+复合宾语吗?about him能不能理解成后置定语修饰air呢?
—What did Mr. Smith say about his career?—Only that if he ____ a millionaire, he would have fewer worries. A. did not becomeB. had not becomeC. does not becomeD. has not become求助各位高手,这题选什么?