The
plague year proved brutal for Chicago, already a violent city even by American
standards. Murders increased by 56% from 2019—nearly three times as many
victims as in all of Italy. As crime data from 2020 are compiled, one thing has
become clear: American cities saw the biggest rise in homicide...
The trend can be traced back to a hyperbolic 1983 report, “A Nation at Risk,” issued by President Ronald Reagan’s National Commission on Excellence in Education.各位老师好。这是网上看到的“2019年6月CATTI二笔实务真题”中的一段。粗体字 on Excellence in Education...
His mother had stepped in to fill the embarrassed silence.专家老师，句子中为什么用embarrassed而不用embarrassing呢？类似的还有relaxed，如 a hotel with a relaxed atmosphere。十分感谢。
A long,
light figure came with a kind of visionary movement, from behind the monument,
surveyed the traveler with keen curiosity, listened with apparent astonishment
to his words, and in another moment had fixed itself gazing over his shoulder
on the volume.
各位老师好。请教老师，第四...
在前面一个网友的提问中看到这样一句：A visually-challenged man from Beijing
recently hiked (徒步) 40 days to Xi'an, as a first step ___61___ (journey) the Belt and
Road route (路线) by foot.（2022全国甲卷）https://www.cpsenglish.com/question/64415前面网友的疑问是...
...影配乐对电影的影响的文章，有这么几句话：When Luke Skywalker appears on the screen, the music becomes heroic because he is the hero. Darth Vader is the bad guy, so his music is quite dark. Would you think that Luke Skywalker was still a hero without the music? Probably. However, t...
It’s said that the food which was given to the prisoner had added something harmful to the heart.
这个句子的意思好像是：据说，给这个犯从吃的食物加了一些对心脏有害的东西。
但我觉得句子中的 add 用得有些奇怪，或者说不妥，因为 add ...
以下内容出自一本美国出版的战争历史书籍（《When Titans Clashed》出版社为University Press of Kansas。这本书籍最早于1995年出版，2015年再版，并有扩充与修改）Malinovsky
struck again on 5 December, this time north and south of Budapest in a
two-pronged att...
He had studied the Greek language, and read the works of Greek historians; and he attended lectures on philosophy and rhetoric, and was obviously interested deeply in acquiring power as a public speaker. To write and speak well gave a public man great influence in those days. Many of the measures of...
This led him to/into Street Symphony, a group of professional musicians mostly from the LA Philharmonic, which works with homeless mentaaly ill and disabled populations. A member of the Street Symphony said:" I gave Palmer some tips on vocal techinque, and/ while he taught me life lessons. I go...
...CNN新闻上的关于北京大兴机场的文章，其中有这么一段：All of this coinciding with the seventieth anniversary of the founding of communist China.In fact, to inaugurate this new airport, President Xi Jinping himself was here.He had a crowd that was gathered, of dignitaries, a lot ...
feel在句子中用法，我怎么确定是谁的感觉？①②...I realized that whenever black people were on-screen speaking in African languages, they felt familiar to me. They sounded like they were supposed to sound. Then I’d listen to them in simulcast on the radio, and they would all have...
现在分词作宾语补足语的时候可以在前面加as,比如：(1) He described the picture as expressing the dream of mankind.(2) They considered me as having done my best.那么过去分词作宾语补足语的时候可以不可以在前面加as呢？比如这句James Boswell, his biographer...
老师们好，下面这个句子：The possibility that mass extinctions may recur periodically has given rise to such hypotheses as that of a companion star with a long-period orbit deflecting other bodies from their normal orbits, making some of them fall to Earth as meteors and causing widesprea...