Never before has our nation enjoyed so much prosperity and so much social progress with so little internal crisis.我知道这里是否定副词 never 在句首导致了倒装，那这里 before 是什么词性呢？为什么一定要把 before 也倒装呢？为此我查了柯林斯词典，其中...
...about the gaze of ourselves in the mirror or the gaze of other people, but it can be applied to objects, which might also be said to 'send back our sight'.当我们思考镜子里自己的凝视或其他人的凝视时，这个想法就不难理解了，但是这个想法可以应用于物...
小王子第四章中有一句：If
I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To
forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. 这里not
every one has had a good friend为什么用现在完成时？我认为一般现在时就可以，因为他是讲一个...
An average of just 15 cm of rainfall
last year has made it the driest year since 1850.各位老师好，请问：1.这个句子中为什么用an average of，而不用the average of呢？2.请问an average of和the average of用法有什么区别呢？
3.我查找的时候发现有人说an
av...
As it is often said that "a year's plan starts with spring",
farmers start to sow seeds at this time to lay the foundation for a good
harvest for the year.首先这里的 as 不可能引导定语从句，因为从句不缺成分，而as引导定语从句时一般充当从句中的主语或宾语，...
And in circles devoted to literary criticism, among the professors of
literature, the editors and authors of fiction, there was sometimes a kind of
horrible exclusivity surrounding discussions of reading. There was good
reading, and there was bad reading. There was the worthy, and the trivial. This
...
Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore—and that few...
...as 'the begging of
the story and of the novel'？If not, could you explain it to me？说白了就是，并列结构中相同冠词可以省略吗？我不太确定，因为有的语法书上说，如果表示两个人或物则两个都要加冠词修饰，可是我觉得可以省略的吧，否则...
He was directly invited to join their party, but he declined it,
observing that he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up
and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would
interfere.两位小姐立刻请他来溜达，可是他谢绝了，说是她...
I wish Sam would study harder, because I am breaking my neck to scrape up the money to keep him in college.You don't have to break your neck fixing this TV set: I really don't need it next week.为什么第一句用不定式，第二句用现在分词形式？
Fraud can also be committed by wire, phone, or e-mail, but is only considered mail fraud when it involves things being sent by mail.通过上下文判断，我认为是名词通格（things）和动名词被动语态（being sent）构成的“动名词复合结构”，强调...